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Competition / France


573 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Review: The Empire

Review: The Empire

BERLINALE 2024: Featuring lightsabres, spaceships and a war between Good and Evil set in an everyday human context, Bruno Dumont delivers a hilarious satire to be taken with a pinch of salt  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Dahomey

Review: Dahomey

BERLINALE 2024: Mati Diop’s documentary, which follows the return of works of art stolen in colonial times, is a precious little gem – little in terms of length, but not artistic expression  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Suspended Time

Review: Suspended Time

BERLINALE 2024: A minor entry in Olivier Assayas' filmography is definitely his most autobiographical outing, but is probably among the least engaging  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: My Favourite Cake

Review: My Favourite Cake

BERLINALE 2024: Directorial duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha craft a straightforward but heartfelt dramedy of love and resistance against patriarchy in old age  

17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Berlinale Competition entry Who Do I Belong To

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Berlinale Competition entry Who Do I Belong To

The first feature by Meryam Joobeur follows a Tunisian woman who must face the limits of her maternal love to counteract the growing darkness in her community  

14/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: A Picture to Remember

Review: A Picture to Remember

Olga Chernykh delivers a lyrical exploration of her heritage in the Donbass, offering up a war diary and linking it with her family’s story by way of images from their own personal archive  

30/01/2024 | Trieste 2024

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

Interview: Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most dangerous years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Familiar

Review: Familiar

The new family drama by Romanian filmmaker Călin Peter Netzer shows how harsh communist realities still poison the present  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Consent

Review: Consent

Vanessa Filho’s second feature tells the horrific but well-known story of a teenage girl seduced by an older influential writer  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Xavier Legrand  • Director of The Successor

Interview: Xavier Legrand • Director of The Successor

“I want to send the audience into a hellish spiral"

The French actor and filmmaker talks about his second feature, a hard-hitting, tragic and murky thriller about toxic masculinities that leaves no one indifferent  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

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