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256 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Review: The Safe House

Review: The Safe House

BERLINALE 2025: Lionel Baier delivers an atypical, colourful and high-energy film which sees history crossing paths with the story of an eccentric family in their Parisian apartment in May ‘68  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

Interview: Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

“I was able to talk about the Holocaust without having to make a historical film”

BERLINALE 2025: The Swiss director unpicks his understanding of fiction and his artistic approach to the literary source of his feature, an autobiographical novel by Christophe Boltanski  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

Interview: Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

Review: Summer Camp

Review: Summer Camp

In his first feature film, Mateo Ybarra depicts daily life for a group of young scouts, between playful songs and small but significant rebellions  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down starts shooting

Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down starts shooting

Toplined by Kirsten Dunst, Keanu Reeves and Daniel Brühl, the pic is a contemporary satire that takes place during a long-haul flight where the entertainment system stops working  

30/01 | Production | Funding | Sweden/Germany/France/Norway/Denmark/Hungary/ Switzerland/UK/USA

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev’s drama Kurak, now in post-production

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev’s drama Kurak, now in post-production

Based on true events, the film follows several intertwined stories about the disempowerment of women, set against the backdrop of modern-day Kyrgyzstan’s patriarchal society  

29/01 | Production | Funding | Kyrgyzstan/Switzerland/Serbia/Luxembourg/Netherlands/ Italy/France

Review: GEN_

Review: GEN_

Gianluca Matarrese returns with a thought-provoking and humanistic film on an intersection of medical, ethical and cultural issues, guided by its remarkable protagonist  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: From Ground Zero

Review: From Ground Zero

Shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar and composed of 22 shorts by as many Palestinian directors, the movie offers up a poignant kaleidoscope of life in the Gaza Strip  

21/01 | Films | Reviews | Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan/Switzerland

Gianluca Matarrese documents a doctor’s ethical dilemmas in GEN_

Gianluca Matarrese documents a doctor’s ethical dilemmas in GEN_

Exploring the desire to have a child and to assert one’s gender identity, the Italian director’s new movie will screen in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary competition  

13/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/Switzerland

Series review: Ceux qui rougissent

Series review: Ceux qui rougissent

Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s documentary-like dramatic series about a Swiss gymnast’s drama group is a subtle portrait of adolescence and an homage to theatre  

14/11/2024 | Geneva 2024

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