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Competition / France


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

Review: Puan

Review: Puan

Argentina’s María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat present a tragicomedy with political overtones about the meaning and loss of one’s ideals  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of A Silence

Interview: Joachim Lafosse • Director of A Silence

“The venom of crime spreads by creating shame, silence and guilt”

The Belgian director’s film looks at the role played by silence in cases of child abuse  

26/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: A Silence

Review: A Silence

Joachim Lafosse explores in depth the silencing mechanisms around situations of sexual violence, particularly within families  

25/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

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

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: Holly

Review: Holly

VENICE 2023: Belgian director Fien Troch offers a fantastic escape in all meanings of the word in the mysterious lands of faith and peer pressure  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Green Border

Review: Green Border

VENICE 2023: Polish leading light Agnieszka Holland returns with an adroit look at Belarus’s disruption of her country’s and the EU’s immigration policies  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Io Capitano

Review: Io Capitano

VENICE 2023: Focusing on two African teenagers’ voyage to Europe, Matteo Garrone maintains his usual formal rigour but does not give the viewer a true impression of the horrors of migration  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of The Beast

Interview: Bertrand Bonello • Director of The Beast

“Cinema and hypnosis go well together”

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker gives us a few clues to decipher his subjugating film of a very broad ambition  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

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