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

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

Review: Vermin

Review: Vermin

VENICE 2023: Sébastien Vaniček’s debut feature is a more convincing survival film than a social allegory  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Daaaaaali!

Review: Daaaaaali!

VENICE 2023: The insanely prolific Quentin Dupieux keeps on delivering the crazy but is starting to show the first signs of fatigue  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

Interview: Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

Interview: Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what happened  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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

Review: Behind the Mountains

Review: Behind the Mountains

VENICE 2023: In Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia’s mysterious and suggestive new film, you’ll believe a dad can fly  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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