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10940 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 15/08/2025.

Review: After the Fire

Review: After the Fire

In French director Mehdi Fikri’s feature debut, the embers cool as a family seeks justice after an episode of police brutality  

20/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Discovery

Thierry de Peretti is shooting À son image

Thierry de Peretti is shooting À son image

Loosely based on Jérôme Ferrari’s novel, the French director is painting the portrait of a generation of Corsicans, produced by Les Films Velvet and sold by Pyramide International  

18/09/2023 | Production | Funding | France

Filming on Olivier Meys’ L'Été de Jahia enters the home straight

Filming on Olivier Meys’ L'Été de Jahia enters the home straight

The Belgian filmmaker, who turned heads with his debut feature Bitter Flowers, has just wrapped filming on his second opus  

18/09/2023 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France/Luxembourg

Review: Achilles

Review: Achilles

Farhad Delaram's feature debut emerges as an evocative narrative, blending a realistic portrayal of oppression with an introspective journey of resistance  

18/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Discovery

Review: A Difficult Year

Review: A Difficult Year

Ecological activism and the issue of over-indebtedness are on the agenda of the new burlesque, humanist, energetic and socially engaged comedy by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache  

15/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Special Presentations

Nora El Hourch  • Director of Sisterhood

Interview: Nora El Hourch • Director of Sisterhood

"I wanted to describe these young people who fight adult battles with children’s weapons"

The French-Moroccan director explained the highly personal origin of her debut feature film, which is a psychological thriller navigating the grey zones of friendship and consent  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Hanna Slak • Director of Not a Word

Interview: Hanna Slak • Director of Not a Word

“What I was interested in was this immanent story of confronting darkness during the search for a place where the healing process can start”

The filmmaker homes in on the parent-child themes central to her new movie, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 5, and how genre influences her dramas  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: In the Rearview

Review: In the Rearview

Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela turns his experience of driving Ukrainian refugees to safety into a unique combination of observational and interventionist documentary  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | TIFF Docs

Review: A Real Job

Review: A Real Job

Thomas Lilti solves the equation of intelligent social exposé meets human comedy with a funny, instructive and moving ensemble film about school teachers  

12/09/2023 | France

Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

Interview: Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

"What’s the alternative for modern-day youth?"

The French filmmaker explains the inner workings of a highly singular character and of an intimate thriller about an ambitious woman moving from a gendarmerie barracks to the business district  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

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