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799 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 25/09/2024.

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

Interview: Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

“It felt important to show that even free time isn’t really free”

The Portuguese director explains how she puts us in the headspace of a warehouse picker in her remarkable debut feature  

25/09 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Albert Serra  • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary portraying a matador and his entourage  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra presents a daring and truly extraordinary film about the world of bullfighting, painting the portrait of a matador and his entourage  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Paula Palacios’s My Brother Ali

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Paula Palacios’s My Brother Ali

After competing at the Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival, the new movie by the director of Drowning Letters will take part in the Seminci’s Tiempo de Historia strand  

13/09 | Seminci 2024

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

Interview: Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

"The Carnation Revolution constitutes perhaps the best moment in Portugal's history"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about her documentary, which revisits 25 April 1974 and bears witness to the process of building a new country  

11/09 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: On Falling

Review: On Falling

Laura Carreira’s feature debut is a pessimistic look at modern labour, following a migrant worker in her job as a warehouse picker  

11/09 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

Interview: Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

"I thought that through fiction I could build a story that was both delicate and deep"

VENICE 2024: The Brazilian filmmaker, winner of the GdA Director's Award, talks about her film set in a community in the Amazon where the sexual abuse of minors appears to be the norm  

07/09 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Manas

Review: Manas

VENICE 2024: With sensitivity and respect, Marianna Brennand brings to light the horrifying practice of sexual abuse of little girls in an Amazon rainforest village  

04/09 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Denise Fernandes • Director of Hanami

Interview: Denise Fernandes • Director of Hanami

“The location was like a canvas that allowed me to explore creativity unhindered”

The Swiss-Cape Verdean director unpicks her coming-of-age story set on the shores of Cape Verde and explains how the landscape inspired her  

20/08 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Edgar Pêra • Director of Telepathic Letters

Interview: Edgar Pêra • Director of Telepathic Letters

“Lovecraft’s idea of alien gods that are indifferent to humanity mirrors the way AI can be seen”

The pioneering Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending the worlds of Fernando Pessoa and HP Lovecraft, surreal imagery and the implications of AI in the film industry  

19/08 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

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