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127 articles available in total starting from 26/08/2002. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Review: Vermiglio

Review: Vermiglio

VENICE 2024: Maura Delpero gets back to exploring motherhood in a film set at the end of the Second World War, which is visually and mentally stimulating  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Death Will Come

Review: Death Will Come

Christoph Hochhäusler crafts a gritty crime-thriller set in Brussels' underbelly, pitting an old-school crime boss against a modern rival  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

Interview: Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

“I find it easier to set fiction, like a gangster film, in a city that I don't know so well”

The German director follows a gangster through Brussels in his new movie, a mixture of crime story and existentialist drama  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: First clip from Death Will Come, in competition at Locarno

EXCLUSIVE: First clip from Death Will Come, in competition at Locarno

In the new French-language thriller by German director Christoph Hochhäusler, a killer is hired by a gangster and finds herself at the centre of an intrigue  

02/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Claire Burger  • Director of Foreign Language

Interview: Claire Burger • Director of Foreign Language

“I wanted to show beautiful things amongst the youth, even if the current moment is complicated”

The French director talks about her second solo feature film, a vivid and subtle portrait of today’s youth  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

Interview: Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

“My work is often described as autobiographical, but I find that definition limiting”

The Dutch director breaks down his second feature, revealing the biographical connection to its plot  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Three Days of Fish

Review: Three Days of Fish

In his second feature, Dutch helmer Peter Hoogendoorn comes up with a minimalist and bittersweet family drama, playing with the ambiguity of the mutual affection between a father and son  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: The Most Precious of Cargoes

Review: The Most Precious of Cargoes

CANNES 2024: Michel Hazanavicius delivers a jewel of animation, modest, poignant and profound, about the topic of the death camps always extremely delicate to represent  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Beating Hearts

Review: Beating Hearts

CANNES 2024: Despite its energy, the step of the Cannes competition was way too high to reach for Gilles Lellouche with his very kitsch film of love and violence full of clichés  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Foreign Language

Review: Foreign Language

BERLINALE 2024: Young actresses Lilith Grasmug and Josefa Heinsius are the beating heart of this coming-of-age drama by Claire Burger, revolving around a language exchange trip to Germany  

21/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

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