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66 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 25/03/2024.

Review: Black Box Diaries

Review: Black Box Diaries

In her CPH:DOX award-winning film, Shiori Ito is simultaneously the author of the source book, an investigator, a director and the victim of a rape by a high-profile journalist  

25/03 | CPH:DOX 2024

Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Guillaume Senez reunites with Romain Duris for Une part manquante

Guillaume Senez reunites with Romain Duris for Une part manquante

First clapperboard for the Belgian filmmaker’s new feature, produced by Versus Production, Les Films Pelléas and Savage Film, shooting in Japan  

17/10/2023 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France/Japan

Review: Last Shadow at First Light

Review: Last Shadow at First Light

In Singaporean director Nicole Midori Woodford's melancholic and sensitive début feature film, a co-production between Asia and Slovenia, the distressed central characters sometimes see ghosts  

02/10/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | New Directors

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

Interview: Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in the faces of strangers  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

Interview: Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Sidonie in Japan

Review: Sidonie in Japan

VENICE 2023: Following in the wake of Isabelle Huppert, Élise Girard imposes her own trademark aerial cinematography, travelling in Japan and exploring the contours and the echoes of reality  

01/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Arami Ullón prepares her third feature film, which will take place in Japan

Arami Ullón prepares her third feature film, which will take place in Japan

After setting her first two feature films in Paraguay, the director explores a very particular mourning practice, that of the “wind phone”  

01/06/2023 | Switzerland/Paraguay/Japan

Review: Perfect Days

Review: Perfect Days

CANNES 2023: Wim Wenders’ fiction film at the festival is a delicate and slyly melancholic ode to the search for happiness  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

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