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609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Review: Franz

Review: Franz

Agnieszka Holland directs a non-traditional biopic of Kafka and attempts to reckon with his legacy beyond buzzwords in this film led by a restless Idan Weiss  

15/09 | Toronto 2025 | Special Presentations

Review: Two Pianos

Review: Two Pianos

François Civil dazzles in Arnaud Desplechin’s excellent, sombre and tormented melodrama where the past and the present come together and collide  

10/09 | Toronto 2025 | Gala Presentations

Review: The Fence

Review: The Fence

Claire Denis brings all the tumultuous, coded and unhinged strangeness of Bernard-Marie Koltès’ play to the big screen, dissecting the full spectrum of domination relationships  

09/09 | Toronto 2025 | Special Presentations

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

Interview: Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

“I wanted to show how quickly our gaze changes”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director gives us the low-down on her new feature, which centres on a ginkgo tree in three different timelines  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

Interview: Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the turn of the last century  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the titular girl’s death  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Silent Friend

Review: Silent Friend

VENICE 2025: Ildikó Enyedi’s eccentric, charming film inspects a tree in a German university garden in three distinct time periods over the last century  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

Interview: Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

“I’m very intuitive in what I do, not analytical”

VENICE 2025: The US director shares some thoughts on his stories, his work and his love for cinema, veering off at times into some minute detail  

05/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Duse

Review: Duse

VENICE 2025: Pietro Marcello delivers an unconventional biopic on the iconic Italian theatre actress Eleonora Duse who’s sensitively played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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