email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Competition


2302 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 16/07/2025.

The Miner: A truth hidden deep down

The Miner: A truth hidden deep down

Slovenian filmmaker Hanna Slak tells the true story of one man’s quest for the truth against all odds  

17/10/2017 | Warsaw 2017 | Competition

The Confession: A rare modern film with a priest as the good guy

The Confession: A rare modern film with a priest as the good guy

Zaza Urushadze's new movie, screening at Warsaw, is a kind-hearted drama which nevertheless has a structural problem that undermines its good intentions  

16/10/2017 | Warsaw 2017 | Competition

The Captain and the morality of the pack

The Captain and the morality of the pack

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: From Robert Schwentke comes this fable, set in Germany in the final throes of the Second World War, about the value of justice when all traces of humanity have been lost  

30/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Beyond Words: The limitations of language

Beyond Words: The limitations of language

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Urszula Antoniak presents a fiction film doubling as an essay on linguistics and the impossibility of expressing nationalist sentiment through language  

30/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

The Lion Sleeps Tonight: Cinema’s (friendly) ghosts

The Lion Sleeps Tonight: Cinema’s (friendly) ghosts

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Nobuhiro Suwa cooks up a breathtaking metacinematic concoction that plays with three of cinema’s most basic elements: time, hope and Jean-Pierre Léaud  

30/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

A Sort of Family: Not without my son

A Sort of Family: Not without my son

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Bárbara Lennie gives a magnificent performance as a woman desperate to become a mother in this drama by Diego Lerman, co-produced by Argentina, Brazil and myriad European countries  

29/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Antonio Méndez Esparza  • Director

Interview: Antonio Méndez Esparza • Director

“I like to fully embrace my outsider status”

Following his award-winning debut Aquí y allá, Antonio Méndez Esparza is back with Life and Nothing More, filmed in the US  

29/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Review: Life and Nothing More

Review: Life and Nothing More

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: From Antonio Méndez Esparza comes this docudrama set in a North American city, where the mother of a difficult teen battles to get by  

28/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Ivana Mladenovic  • Director

Interview: Ivana Mladenovic • Director

“The film is first and foremost a love story between two individuals”

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: A chat with Romanian director Ivana Mladenovic, whose gay love story, Soldiers. Story from Ferentari, is ground-breaking for Romanian cinema  

28/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Review: Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Review: Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Ivana Mladenovic breaks new ground in Romanian cinema, where LGBT topics are almost non-existent  

28/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Privacy Policy