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704 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2002. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

Interview: Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

“At some point, given what is happening to the environment, we might all become refugees”

VENICE 2024: The Greek director outlines the mysterious syndrome affecting refugee children as well as other topics tackled in his film  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Quiet Life

Review: Quiet Life

VENICE 2024: Alexandros Avranas’s latest effort tackles a highly sensitive topic – child resignation syndrome – but does so through overly slow pacing and flat acting  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Transamazonia

Review: Transamazonia

Despite its fascinating aesthetics, Pia Marais’ latest feature fails to deliver a compelling tale owing to its confusing writing  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Hafsia Herzi’s The Last One now in post-production

Hafsia Herzi’s The Last One now in post-production

This loose adaptation of Fatima Daas’ novel is produced by June Films, together with Arte France Cinéma and Germany’s Katuh Studio  

30/07/2024 | Production | Funding | France/Germany

Anja Kreis  • Director of The Alienated

Interview: Anja Kreis • Director of The Alienated

"The power of evil is not only in the government but also in the mentality of people"

The Russian-born filmmaker discusses her second feature and the uncomfortable questions it raises, about human conscience and morality, as well as the concepts of God and evil  

11/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Review: The Alienated

Review: The Alienated

Writer-director Anja Kreis’s long-awaited sophomore feature buckles under the weight of myriad references, moods and conceptual ambitions  

09/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Claire Burger  • Director of Foreign Language

Interview: Claire Burger • Director of Foreign Language

“I wanted to show beautiful things amongst the youth, even if the current moment is complicated”

The French director talks about her second solo feature film, a vivid and subtle portrait of today’s youth  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Noaz Deshe  • Director of Xoftex

Interview: Noaz Deshe • Director of Xoftex

"I wanted to document the progression of the mental state of stateless people in a refugee camp"

The director tells us more about his new film, in which he portrays refugees filming satirical sketches and preparing for a zombie horror flick while awaiting immigration interviews in a Greek camp  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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