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2286 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 07/07/2025.

Corn Island: Life on a sometimes-still river

Corn Island: Life on a sometimes-still river

Unveiled as a world premiere in competition at the KVIFF, Corn Island has proved to be just as successful as it was apparently difficult to produce. A little gem by Georgian director George Ovashvili  

10/07/2014 | Karlovy Vary 2014 | Competition

Birdman by Alejandro G. Iñárritu opens the 71st Venice Film Festival

Birdman by Alejandro G. Iñárritu opens the 71st Venice Film Festival

The new film by the Mexican director is played by Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. The world premiere will be screened following the opening ceremony hosted by Luisa Ranieri  

10/07/2014 | Venice 2014 | Competition

All Yours: Belgian bakery seeks Argentinian male prostitute

All Yours: Belgian bakery seeks Argentinian male prostitute

David Lambert's Belgian-Canadian co-production triggered rapturous applause from the audience, who welcomed the film with a great deal of emotion at its premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary  

08/07/2014 | Karlovy Vary 2014 | Competition

Patchwork Family: “Everyone can make a mistake”

Patchwork Family: “Everyone can make a mistake”

Pascal Rabaté has made a sensitive, bittersweet comedy that plunges to the heart of crisis-riddled provincial France. A touching tale carried by the excellent Sami Bouajila  

07/07/2014 | Karlovy Vary 2014 | Competition

Could Benoît Jacquot and François Ozon be in the running for the Golden Lion?

Could Benoît Jacquot and François Ozon be in the running for the Golden Lion?

The two filmmakers seem to be in pole position to take part in the upcoming competition at Venice with 3 Hearts and The New Girlfriend  

24/06/2014 | Venice 2014 | Competition

FILM FOCUS: Long Distance (10.000 km)

FILM FOCUS: Long Distance (10.000 km)

Carlos Marques-Marcet's brilliant film about a generation reduced to moving abroad and living through new technologies screens in competition  

03/06/2014 | Transilvania 2015 | Competition

Clouds of Sils Maria: The power of emptiness and a cosmic serpent

Clouds of Sils Maria: The power of emptiness and a cosmic serpent

CANNES 2014: Olivier Assayas creates an ambitious tale of magic, mixing dawn and twilight, fiction and reality, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart  

23/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Competition

Jimmy’s Hall: to pray or to dance?

Jimmy’s Hall: to pray or to dance?

CANNES 2014: Social, militant and political, the latest film by Ken Loach is a well-finished historical drama that will please a broad audience  

23/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Competition

Goodbye to Language: On nature and metaphors

Goodbye to Language: On nature and metaphors

CANNES 2014: A great architect of deconstruction, Jean-Luc Godard is back with a tremendous impressionist and metaphysical film in 3D  

22/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Competition

The Search: An anti-war message after the battle

The Search: An anti-war message after the battle

CANNES 2014: Michel Hazanavicius breaks the indifference towards the Chechnya tragedy in an ambitious melodrama which doesn’t escape all of the pitfalls of the genre  

21/05/2014 | Cannes 2014 | Competition

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