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Competition / France


573 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet Dreams

Interview: Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film and discusses the role of the past in the present  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Sylvain George sets his gaze on a group of young migrants on the border between the African continent and Europe, shining a light on a daily existence rife with persistence, hope and painful utopias  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Radu Jude  • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

“It is a very self-reflective film about what images mean and what cinema can be nowadays”

The Romanian helmer breaks down his complex new feature of two halves, which provides witty comments on the digital environment and the altered nature of cinema  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Sweet Dreams

Review: Sweet Dreams

Ena Sendijarević follows up her award-winning debut with an uncanny period tale set in the Dutch East Indies  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

The latest feature film by the brilliant Filipino director Lav Diaz depicts the torments of a lieutenant obsessed with a mysterious, unsolved case  

06/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: The Permanent Picture

Review: The Permanent Picture

Laura Ferrés presents an original and free film, somewhere between dark comedy and costumbrista drama  

06/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Yannick

Review: Yannick

Quentin Dupieux delivers a formidably effective, simple yet surprising and incisive dark comedy about an absence of love and its potentially tragic consequences  

01/08/2023 | Films | Reviews | France

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

Interview: Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

“People act selfish and fearful, and this can be applied to both society and individuals”

The Georgian director dives right into our beliefs and hopes in her latest, touching film set in a mining community  

12/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Ernst De Geer  • Director of The Hypnosis

Interview: Ernst De Geer • Director of The Hypnosis

"We wanted to be personal, but not too personal, and unique, but not too crazy"

The Swedish director talks about what is behind his first feature, a satire on modern society and about the conventions dictating how we behave with each other  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Citizen Saint

Review: Citizen Saint

Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili departs from her earlier style with this black-and-white allegory that combines religion and superstition to strange and intriguing effect  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

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