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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Review: And Their Children After Them

Review: And Their Children After Them

VENICE 2024: Blending social realism and adolescent mythology, romanticism and tragedy, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma deliver an exciting and spirited adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu’s novel  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Three Friends

Review: Three Friends

VENICE 2024: Emmanuel Mouret spins a sophisticated and brilliantly directed web of feelings and flirtations in pure paradoxical Rohmer-esque style  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Kill the Jockey

Review: Kill the Jockey

VENICE 2024: After an intriguing set-up introducing its quirky lead character, Luis Ortega’s film loses its way owing to confusing writing and clunky character development  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Maria

Review: Maria

VENICE 2024: Pablo Larraín concludes his “lonely ladies in empty apartments” trilogy, but this particular aria feels overlong  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Vuk Ršumović and Fereshteh Hosseini • Director of and actress in Dwelling Among the Gods

Interview: Vuk Ršumović and Fereshteh Hosseini • Director of and actress in Dwelling Among the Gods

"What makes my lead character unique is her love, dedication and resolve to restore dignity to herself and her brother"

The Serbian director discusses his second feature, in which he follows an Afghan family after having stopped in a refugee centre in Serbia en route to Germany  

27/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | Competition

Review: Dwelling Among the Gods

Review: Dwelling Among the Gods

Vuk Ršumović tells the story of a female refugee grappling with her culture and Serbian bureaucracy in his sophomore feature  

23/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | Competition

Saulė Bliuvaitė • Director of Toxic

Interview: Saulė Bliuvaitė • Director of Toxic

“When you're 13, you still haven't said goodbye to your toys: you play with Barbies, even though you also smoke cigarettes”

The Golden Leopard-winning Lithuanian director tells us more about her story of two girls who try to make a better life for themselves by enrolling in a modelling school  

20/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Toxic wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

Toxic wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

The festival has elevated two courageous Lithuanian directors, Saulė Bliuvaitė and Laurynas Bareiša, to the highest podium, along with the equally radical Kurdish-Austrian director Kurdwin Ayub  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Awards

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

Interview: Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

“I think the world is divided into two categories: the oppressors and the oppressed”

With his third feature, the Tunisian director expands on the political themes of liberation and resistance through animal dreams  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Drowning Dry

Interview: Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Drowning Dry

“I’m not preaching, because I’m aware of my own limitations, but I want to show what the reality is”

We met up with the Lithuanian director, whose second feature tells the story of two sisters trying to rebuild their lives after a terrible accident  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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