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93 articles available in total starting from 28/03/2025. Last article published on 19/11/2025.

Mehdi Hmili • Director of Exile

Interview: Mehdi Hmili • Director of Exile

“The Arab Spring failed, and with it our dreams of freedom and social justice”

The Tunisian auteur explains how he decided on the visual approach of his film and reflects on how it comments on the weakening results of the Arab Spring revolution in his home country  

19/11 | Cairo 2025

Review: Pixie. The New Beginning

Review: Pixie. The New Beginning

An 11-year-old girl deals with a hostile new environment while grieving and clinging to fantasies as a coping mechanism in Krzysztof Komander’s debut feature  

14/11 | Zagreb 2025

Andrei Epure • Director of Don’t Let Me Die

Interview: Andrei Epure • Director of Don’t Let Me Die

“I wanted to make a visual testimony to somehow archive a life that passed by in anonymity and indifference”

The Romanian director talks about his first feature, which, by blending reality, dreams, comedy and horror, reflects on the traces that people leave behind when they die  

12/11 | /Romania/Bulgaria/France

Review: Green Light

Review: Green Light

With a fine sensibility for the pain at hand, Pavel Cuzuioc follows a psychotherapist whose mission is to help desperate people accomplish their right to end their lives  

30/10 | Viennale 2025

Trương Minh Quý  • Co-director of Hair, Paper, Water…

Interview: Trương Minh Quý • Co-director of Hair, Paper, Water…

“You can always create something meaningful out of minimal things”

The Vietnamese director explains the origins of his immersive and hypnotic new documentary, and mulls over his illustrious career to date  

29/10 | Doclisboa 2025

Margherita Spampinato • Director of Sweetheart

Interview: Margherita Spampinato • Director of Sweetheart

“My film expresses the need we have to listen to each other, be together and be connected”

The debuting Italian director talks to us about the meeting-clash between two generations in her film set in Sicily  

27/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2025

At Locarno, Swiss Films presented previews of six features scheduled for release between late 2025 and early 2026, ranging from fictionalised biography to social critique  

22/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

Review: In the Penal Colony

Review: In the Penal Colony

Gaetano Crivaro, Silvia Perra, Ferruccio Goia and Alberto Diana take us into the isolated daily life of four places in Sardinia where the last penal colonies of Europe remain active  

21/08 | Locarno 2025 | Semaine de la Critique

Kukla • Director of Fantasy

Interview: Kukla • Director of Fantasy

“I’ve always thought of Fantasy as someone who brings with her a gentle kind of disruption”

The Slovenian director chats to us about her feature-length follow-up to her award-winning short Sisters and about revisiting her trio of girls  

19/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Olivia

Review: Olivia

The debut feature by Argentinian filmmaker Sofía Petersen, about a woman losing her father, is too enigmatic for its own good  

19/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

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