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2622 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 22/09/2026.

Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

Interview: Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

"I wanted nuance in every character, everyone to be right and everyone to be wrong at some point"

The Danish director speaks about developing complex characters with the actors, portraying mental illness without easy answers, or even the proper vocabulary to talk about it  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Hijamat

Review: Hijamat

Nader Saeivar's new film explores questions of sexual identity and the overbearing influence of religion within Berlin's Turkish community  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

Interview: Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

"I needed the audience to catch their breath while also sinking them into the darkness of each character"

The Cypriot filmmaker discusses her warm-hearted sophomore feature, which explores maternal figures, found family and sacrifice for those you grow to love  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Locarno unveils its competition line-up

Locarno unveils its competition line-up

Numerous European films are vying for the Golden Leopard, including a debut feature and new works by directors already familiar to the festival, such as Basil da Cunha, Ann Oren and Salvatore Mereu  

09/07 | Locarno 2026

Review: A Happy Family

Review: A Happy Family

Jan-Eric Mack’s film, the first Swiss title ever in the Crystal Globe competition, follows the unraveling of a mother after her two children are sent to foster care  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

“This film has become a highly political appeal for individual freedom”

The Czech director chatted with us about turning queer identity, drag culture and rural family comedy into mainstream cinema, shaped by “radical positivity” and “radical hope”  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: 3 Weeks After

Review: 3 Weeks After

Serbian director Miroslav Terzić delivers a highly artistic, technically impressive and morally ambiguous drama about school bullying  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: The Lion at My Back

Review: The Lion at My Back

Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali's second feature teams up two excellent actresses, Elena Kallinikou and Sokhna Diallo, in a story of unlikely female bonding  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: The Guest

Review: The Guest

Mads Mengel applies Nordic dark comedy to his first feature film, which charts the breakdown of a family event following the arrival of the titular character  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Bulgaria’s Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are back with another tragicomedy rooted in the peculiarities of their home country’s petty mentality, this time fuelled by the global political context  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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