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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

Interview: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Last Breath

Review: Last Breath

Costa Gavras delivers an ultimately uplifting film falling halfway between pedagogical tragicomedy and rugged yet truthful philosophical tale on the eminently delicate subject of death  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: The Wailing

Review: The Wailing

Pedro Martín-Calero and Isabel Peña present a powerful and disturbing film that talks about the effects of violence against women via a contemporary feminist horror story  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Serpent’s Path

Review: Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa readapts his 1990s film Serpent’s Path, setting it in contemporary France, for an unhinged thriller that investigates the pointless obtuseness of evil  

25/09/2024 | 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  

24/09/2024 | 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  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

Interview: Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

“The proximity of a death places us in another place in our own lives”

In her third film, the Spanish filmmaker touches on accompaniment in illness and how she brought the original story by Eider Rodríguez on which it is based to her own region  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: When Fall Is Coming

Review: When Fall Is Coming

In François Ozon’s newest film, discontent brews in a cosy autumnal Burgundy village laden with intergenerational guilt, resentment and no way out but onwards  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

Interview: Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

“Even when they’re fiction, my stories draw inspiration from reality”

The Spanish actress-director is back with a film based on real events, about a trailblazer who defied those around her and dared to report a politician in her town for harassment  

22/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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