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5826 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 11/09/2025.

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: Californie

Review: Californie

VENICE 2021: Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman’s first fiction film speaks of a Moroccan youth’s courage, solitude and attempts at integration in the Neapolitan hinterland  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Inner Cage

Review: The Inner Cage

VENICE 2021: Leonardo Di Costanzo’s third film offers up a metaphorical confrontation between watched watchmen and a high-class acting duel between Toni Servillo and Silvio Orlando  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Umberto Contarello  • Director of Parole

Interview: Umberto Contarello • Director of Parole

"I've always made films about myself"

VENICE 2021: The Italian screenwriter makes the leap in front of the camera and speaks off the cuff about himself, his work and the great directors he has collaborated with  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli autori

Review: Il buco

Review: Il buco

VENICE 2021: Michelangelo Frammartino captures the breath and the rhythm of the spaces that he explores, through the story of a group of young speleologists descending into a deep cave in Calabria...  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Yuri Ancarani  • Director of Atlantide

Interview: Yuri Ancarani • Director of Atlantide

“I wanted to create something beautiful; we are not used to beautiful things any more”

VENICE 2021: In his film, the Italian director focuses on a group of teenagers, showing a side of Venice that normally remains hidden to outsiders  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

In CICAE’s view, the arthouse sector’s main challenge in 2021 is still bringing viewers back to theatres

In CICAE’s view, the arthouse sector’s main challenge in 2021 is still bringing viewers back to theatres

VENICE 2021: The panel, entitled “Strategies for the Arthouse Industry in the Post-pandemic Era”, was held in the Hotel Excelsior’s Spazio Incontri on 3 September  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Venice Production Bridge

Review: Dogworld

Review: Dogworld

VENICE 2021: Shot in a run-down and toxic version of Taranto, Alessandro Celli’s debut is a dystopic but fun film which light-heartedly reflects upon the present while warning us about the future  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: The Hand of God

Review: The Hand of God

VENICE 2021: “Amarcording” the Naples of his youth, Paolo Sorrentino gets to eat his Fellini cake and have his own, too  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Atlantide

Review: Atlantide

VENICE 2021: Acclaimed video artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani shows us Venice as we’ve never quite seen it on screen before  

02/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

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