email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Germany / France


687 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2002. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

We take a closer look at nine projects showcased in Locarno Pro’s co-development programme for films from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium)

Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium)

The producers of the film by Jonathan Millet are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support  

12/08 | The Co-production Podcast

Review: With Hasan in Gaza

Review: With Hasan in Gaza

Kamal Aljafari’s documentary offers an unvarnished meditation on the cyclical nature of loss, the persistence of erasure, and the fragile yet enduring traces of humanity that linger in between  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

“As strange as it might sound, I still don’t remember having shot all this material”

The Palestinian director explains the peculiar circumstances which led to him turning some lost tapes of life in Gaza in the early 2000s into a film  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Maryam Touzani's Calle Málaga heads to Venice and Toronto

Maryam Touzani's Calle Málaga heads to Venice and Toronto

Carmen Maura stars alongside Marta Etura in a film that explores themes such as the bond with a place and the right to desire in later life, with international sales by Films Boutique  

25/07 | Production | Funding | Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother to world-premiere in competition at Venice

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother to world-premiere in competition at Venice

Toplined by Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Tom Waits, the film is a triptych that explores emotional estrangement and familial ties across three interlinked stories  

25/07 | Production | Funding | USA/France/Italy/Germany/Ireland

Suzannah Mirghani’s debut, Cotton Queen, set to world-premiere in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week

Suzannah Mirghani’s debut, Cotton Queen, set to world-premiere in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week

The German-French-Palestinian-Egyptian co-production tells the story of Nafisa, a teenage girl growing up in a cotton-farming village in Sudan  

25/07 | Production | Funding | Germany/France/Palestine/Egypt

Review: TrepaNation

Review: TrepaNation

Syrian refugee and director Ammar al-Beik has spent ten years filming his life in Germany, and compiled an almost four-hour essay on uprooting, loss and longing  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Orkhan Aghazadeh • Director of The Return of the Projectionist

Interview: Orkhan Aghazadeh • Director of The Return of the Projectionist

“This is a story about persistence despite the obstacles”

The Paris-based Azerbaijani filmmaker reveals behind-the-scenes details about his full-length documentary debut, featuring two cinephile dreamers in the remote countryside  

19/06 | Transilvania 2025

Joachim Trier • Director of Sentimental Value

Interview: Joachim Trier • Director of Sentimental Value

“I’m 50 and have two small kids, and the world is in turmoil and unrest – it just feels like we’re ready for some tenderness”

CANNES 2025: The Norwegian director discusses his latest film and the fact he has reached a “lucky” point in his career  

05/06 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Privacy Policy