Venice 2023
166 articles available in total starting from 14/03/2023. Last article published on 01/02/2024.
Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage
"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"
VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour
Interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World
"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"
VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to live?”
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
Interview: Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come
"The film is haunted by an outlook full of desire and danger"
VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke to us about the symbolic figure of the vampire, the blend of genres in her movie and the impossibility of fitting in with society’s normative false pretences
Interview: Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze
"We wanted to make a film that would not just tell the story of the work of art per se"
VENICE 2023: With their documentary, the directorial duo retrace half a century's worth of history, telling the story of the world's two best-preserved bronze statues: the Riace bronzes
