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264 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 04/09/2025.

Matteo Tortone  • Director of Mother Lode

Interview: Matteo Tortone • Director of Mother Lode

“As soon as I knew that the story would be set in Peru, I wanted to limit the exotic vision we normally have of the country”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director unpicks his black-and-white social drama that follows a young man willing to sacrifice his life in a gold mine in Peru  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Madeleine Collins

Review: Madeleine Collins

VENICE 2021: Virginie Efira rules in a Hitchcockian film by Antoine Barraud with a very sophisticated and particularly devious script, rich in discomfort, suspicions and surprises  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Peter Greenaway’s long-gestating biopic Walking to Paris almost finished and ready to premiere

Peter Greenaway’s long-gestating biopic Walking to Paris almost finished and ready to premiere

Five additional projects from the prolific British auteur are also ready for production  

31/08/2021 | Production | Funding | UK/Switzerland/Italy/France

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Mother Lode

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Mother Lode

Shot in the most dangerous mine in the Peruvian Andes, the new film by Italian documentary filmmaker Matteo Tortone will have its world premiere in Venice’s International Film Critics’ Week  

26/08/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

Interview: Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

“The steppe is right on our doorstep but it’s as if it creates some sort of abyss”

The Argentine director and HEAD graduate speaks to us about her first feature film, which was shot in the Argentine desert and revolves around an extraordinary child  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: A Thousand Fires

Review: A Thousand Fires

Saeed Taji Farouky's documentary tells the intimate story of a Myanma family, set against the epic background of manual oil extraction  

10/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Semaine de la Critique

Review: Zahorí

Review: Zahorí

Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature takes us on a magical journey to the ends of the earth where the noise of the city gives way to introspection in a setting where anything still seems possible  

10/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title A Thousand Fires

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title A Thousand Fires

Saeed Taji Farouky’s new feature-length documentary is a portrait of a family in flux, and a story of intergenerational conflict and compromise  

04/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Semaine de la Critique

Elie Grappe • Director of Olga

Interview: Elie Grappe • Director of Olga

"I wanted to explore the links between a geographical and an intimate frontier"

CANNES 2021: The French director presented his first feature film in the Critics’ Week and won the SACD Prize  

19/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

Review: Memoria

Review: Memoria

CANNES 2021: World-class champion of sensory cinema Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back in fine shape, aided by Tilda Swinton and some highly fructiferous Colombian plant life  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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