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2281 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

Sleeping Sickness: The good savage is neither good, nor very savage

An ambitious look at the ambiguous relationships between Europe and Africa, Sleeping Sickness, presented this morning in Competition, marks the return of Germany filmmaker Ulrich Köhler to the...  

12/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Competition/DE-FR-NL

Selection is complete

The 61st Berlin Film Festival has now announced all its titles in Competition. With the eight films confirmed before the end-of-year holidays (see news), the total now stands at 22. Sixteen of...  

18/01/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Competition

First Berlin Bear contenders announced

The first eight titles in the Official Selection of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival have been confirmed. Like opening film, True Grit by the Coen brothers, announced a few days ago,...  

15/12/2010 | Berlinale 2011 | Competition

I Am With You: A mother’s love can change the world

Guido Chiesa’s I Am With You, in Competition at the Rome Film Festival, centers on a disobedient Mary, sweetly indifferent to the laws of the elders, who teaches her child to live like a free man,...  

04/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

The Flowers of Kirkuk looks at genocide and one woman’s courage

The first film shot in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003, and also one of the dramatic ones produced in that region, The Flowers of Kirkuk – an Italian/Swiss/Iraqi co-production by...  

03/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/CH-IT-IQ

Tribal India takes on Bollywood in Gangor

Italian-Indian co-production Gangor by Italo Spinelli is the second Italian film and the first of the domestic titles in Competition at the Rome International Film Festival not spoken in Italian....  

03/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-India

Servillo plays a hunted animal in A Quiet Life

The Italian actor of the moment, Toni Servillo plays Rosario, a chef hiding a criminal past in Claudio Cupellini’s Italian-German co-production A Quiet LIfe, which hits Italian screens November 5...  

02/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-Germany

Oranges and Sunshine brings to light invisible children

It must not be easy to carry his surname, but Jim Loach, with a vast experience in TV, came to his feature debut without any complexes towards his father Ken. Aiming straight at the exploration of...  

02/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/UK

Poll Diaries: Freedom and eugenics at the dawn of a new empire

What stays with you the most about Germany director Chris Kraus’ new film The Poll Diaries, presented in Competition at the Rome Film Festival, is without a doubt the striking location: a strange...  

31/10/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany

School is Over for Jalongo

For whom does the bell toll? The title of the new film by Valerio Jalongo, the first of four Italians in competition at the Rome International Film Festival, is both literal and metaphorical:...  

29/10/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-Switzerland

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