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

Escaping life with The Leisure Seeker

Escaping life with The Leisure Seeker

VENICE 2017: Paolo Virzì’s much anticipated American debut stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an unwell elderly couple travelling across America on one last trip  

04/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

The House by the Sea: Accepting past regrets

The House by the Sea: Accepting past regrets

VENICE 2017: In his new movie, presented in Venice’s main competition, Robert Guédiguian looks back in time, surrounded by some of his favourite people  

03/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

Foxtrot: Square dances in round holes

Foxtrot: Square dances in round holes

VENICE 2017: Samuel Maoz’s new movie tells three stories preoccupied with young Israeli conscripts, the Holocaust and the country’s uneasy relationship with its neighbours  

03/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

Lean on Pete: Beating a dead horse

Lean on Pete: Beating a dead horse

VENICE 2017: British director Andrew Haigh's latest is an adaptation of a novel by singer and author Willy Vlautin and something of a departure from his previous work  

02/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

The Insult: “You talkin’ to me?!”

The Insult: “You talkin’ to me?!”

VENICE 2017: Ziad Doueiri's fourth film is particularly strong when recounting the lack of working rights of refugees in Lebanon and showing that historic communal trauma is a universal phenomenon  

01/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

Human Flow: Images to shame the world

Human Flow: Images to shame the world

VENICE 2017: Artist Ai Weiwei is in the Venice competition with this documentary shot in 2015 and 2016, uncovering the growing crisis of displaced people across the globe  

01/09/2017 | Venice 2017 | Competition

Emanuel Pârvu  • Director

Interview: Emanuel Pârvu • Director

“There are many shades of the Romanian grey”

We talked to Emanuel Pârvu, who explores the challenges in rural Romania with his first feature, Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things  

21/08/2017 | Sarajevo 2017 | Competition

Review: Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things

Review: Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things

Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu's first feature is a gloomy story directed with complete control  

17/08/2017 | Sarajevo 2017 | Competition

Hostages: A breathtaking blend of thriller and social commentary

Hostages: A breathtaking blend of thriller and social commentary

Rezo Gigineishvili's fourth feature is both a relentless thriller and a well-developed and delivered social commentary  

16/08/2017 | Sarajevo 2017 | Competition

Directions: A country in need of a new, functioning heart

Directions: A country in need of a new, functioning heart

Stephan Komandarev’s fourth feature explores some difficult issues in modern-day Bulgaria  

16/08/2017 | Sarajevo 2017 | Competition

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