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2349 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 18/08/2025.

Review: The Exalted

Review: The Exalted

Juris Kursietis' sophomore feature boasts a solid premise but ultimately struggles to be more than a finely crafted character study  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

A boy growing up in extreme poverty defies his father and the whole corrupt system in Turkish filmmaker Seyfettin Tokmak's new feature  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Todd Haynes to be jury president of the 75th Berlinale

Todd Haynes to be jury president of the 75th Berlinale

The US director will lead the deliberations in the Golden Bear competition of the first edition of the festival directed by Tricia Tuttle, unspooling from 13-23 February  

14/11/2024 | Berlinale 2025

Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

Interview: Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

“What would I do if I didn’t make movies?”

At 91, the cherished Greek-French director still has an active career and has just picked up the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award  

12/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Review: The Boy with Pink Pants

Review: The Boy with Pink Pants

Directed by Margherita Ferri, this true story about the first teenage suicide caused by cyber-bullying in Italy is rich in nuance and reminds us how present this danger still is  

29/10/2024 | Rome 2024

Tallinn Black Nights announces the titles in the main competition, the jury set to judge them and its opening film

Tallinn Black Nights announces the titles in the main competition, the jury set to judge them and its opening film

The main competition programme comprises 18 films, while the jury will be chaired by German filmmaker Christoph Hochhäusler and the gathering will open with David Dietl’s Long Story Short  

25/10/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Albert Serra scoops the Golden Shell with Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra scoops the Golden Shell with Afternoons of Solitude

The Catalonian filmmaker has snagged the top prize at the Basque event with his visually stunning doc, which plunges headfirst into the world of bullfighting, with all its light and shadow  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Awards

Review: The End

Review: The End

With his feature fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer presents a haunting post-apocalyptic allegorical operetta that sinks its teeth into the true devastations of modernity  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Hard Truths

Review: Hard Truths

British maestro Mike Leigh is back with a family drama that features all the best hallmarks of his brand of cinema, and which is directly connected to the emotional state of the modern world  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

Interview: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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