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609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Berlinale Competition entry Who Do I Belong To

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Berlinale Competition entry Who Do I Belong To

The first feature by Meryam Joobeur follows a Tunisian woman who must face the limits of her maternal love to counteract the growing darkness in her community  

14/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: A Picture to Remember

Review: A Picture to Remember

Olga Chernykh delivers a lyrical exploration of her heritage in the Donbass, offering up a war diary and linking it with her family’s story by way of images from their own personal archive  

30/01/2024 | Trieste 2024

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

Interview: Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most dangerous years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Familiar

Review: Familiar

The new family drama by Romanian filmmaker Călin Peter Netzer shows how harsh communist realities still poison the present  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Consent

Review: Consent

Vanessa Filho’s second feature tells the horrific but well-known story of a teenage girl seduced by an older influential writer  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Xavier Legrand  • Director of The Successor

Interview: Xavier Legrand • Director of The Successor

“I want to send the audience into a hellish spiral"

The French actor and filmmaker talks about his second feature, a hard-hitting, tragic and murky thriller about toxic masculinities that leaves no one indifferent  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché  • Directors of Puan

Interview: Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché • Directors of Puan

“Comedy is an excellent genre for tackling heavy subjects"

The Argentinean filmmakers have joined lives and forces to create the philosophical comedy starring Marcelo Subiotto and Leonardo Sbaraglia  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

Cristi Puiu  • Director of MMXX

Interview: Cristi Puiu • Director of MMXX

“Preaching is the most disgraceful position for an artist to be put in”

The Romanian filmmaker chatted to us about what made him tackle the year of the pandemic in his latest, hard-hitting, fairly well-observed film  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: The Successor

Review: The Successor

French director Xavier Legrand stresses that Father's Day is not exactly his favourite celebration with this brutal yet elegant film  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: MMXX

Review: MMXX

Romania's Cristi Puiu delivers the most immobile and hostile of his bleak but accurate perspectives on today's society with his dissection of what we experienced in 2020  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

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