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1566 articles available in total starting from 21/08/2002. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

Review: Songs of Slow Burning Earth

Review: Songs of Slow Burning Earth

VENICE 2024: In her sophomore feature-length documentary, Olha Zhurba explores the ramifications of the Russo-Ukrainian War for the Ukrainian people  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Possibility of Paradise

Review: Possibility of Paradise

VENICE 2024: The latest effort by prolific Serbian filmmaker Mladen Kovačević is an impressive observational documentary set in Bali, with a narrative that’s quite open to interpretation  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

Interview: Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

“You could say that we inspired COVID, rather than the other way around”

VENICE 2024: The acclaimed director talks about his choice of subject, his creative process and whether there’s a Danish film wave still out there  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Series review: Families Like Ours

Series review: Families Like Ours

VENICE 2024: In his heartfelt debut miniseries, Thomas Vinterberg sends six million Danes off towards homelessness and statelessness  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Interview: Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

"It was old hat, they reasoned, void of topical importance. Which all changed, of course, on 7 October"

The filmmaker tells us about the genesis of his project reconstituting the history of Israel and Palestine through Swedish TV footage, and his hopes for the film  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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: Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Review: Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

VENICE 2024: Göran Hugo Olsson’s doc is essentially a 200-minute showreel digging into the causes and effects of the political, military and societal crises involving the two countries  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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

Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas to headline Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy The Last Viking

Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas to headline Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy The Last Viking

The project, currently in production and being staged by Zentropa, promises to be a humorous, intriguing and devious tale about identity  

28/08/2024 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Sweden

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary uses SVT’s extensive archive footage to zoom in on 30 years of history in the war-torn region  

28/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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