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Competition / France


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

Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché  • Directors of Puan

Interview: Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché • Directors of Puan

“Comedy is an excellent genre for tackling heavy subjects"

The Argentinean filmmakers have joined lives and forces to create the philosophical comedy starring Marcelo Subiotto and Leonardo Sbaraglia  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

Cristi Puiu  • Director of MMXX

Interview: Cristi Puiu • Director of MMXX

“Preaching is the most disgraceful position for an artist to be put in”

The Romanian filmmaker chatted to us about what made him tackle the year of the pandemic in his latest, hard-hitting, fairly well-observed film  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: The Successor

Review: The Successor

French director Xavier Legrand stresses that Father's Day is not exactly his favourite celebration with this brutal yet elegant film  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: MMXX

Review: MMXX

Romania's Cristi Puiu delivers the most immobile and hostile of his bleak but accurate perspectives on today's society with his dissection of what we experienced in 2020  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: Puan

Review: Puan

Argentina’s María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat present a tragicomedy with political overtones about the meaning and loss of one’s ideals  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of A Silence

Interview: Joachim Lafosse • Director of A Silence

“The venom of crime spreads by creating shame, silence and guilt”

The Belgian director’s film looks at the role played by silence in cases of child abuse  

26/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: A Silence

Review: A Silence

Joachim Lafosse explores in depth the silencing mechanisms around situations of sexual violence, particularly within families  

25/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: Out of Season

Review: Out of Season

VENICE 2023: With Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher in tow as romancers, French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé finds a new creative tool: his funny bone  

11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Out of Season

Interview: Stéphane Brizé • Director of Out of Season

“If an actor doesn’t make a film or doesn’t show up on stage, who cares?”

VENICE 2023: The French director moves away from the workplace and out to a quiet seaside resort, where a famous actor is wallowing in an existential crisis  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

Interview: Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

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