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131 articles available in total starting from 20/07/2009. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Review: The Tasters

Review: The Tasters

In his first period drama, Silvio Soldini focuses on the point of view of a group of women who, in the ruthless collective deception of nazism, suffer male violence and oppression  

25/03 | Bif&st 2025

Review: Europe’s New Faces

Review: Europe’s New Faces

In his observational documentary, Sam Abbas follows the day-to-day lives of migrants in a Parisian squat and the sea rescue operations of an NGO to show how they’re living in limbo  

28/02 | Films | Reviews | France/Italy/Switzerland/USA

Olivia Cooke, Alden Ehrenreich and Helen Mirren to topline Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland

Olivia Cooke, Alden Ehrenreich and Helen Mirren to topline Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland

The pic, now in production in Rome, sees Mirren playing the ageing queen of thrillers Patricia Highsmith  

30/01 | Production | Funding | UK/USA/Australia/Switzerland/Italy

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

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

The final Italian clapperboard slams in Turin on Sergio Castro San Martín’s Il Cileno

The final Italian clapperboard slams in Turin on Sergio Castro San Martín’s Il Cileno

The Chilean director’s movie starring Camilo Arancibia and Sara Serraiocco, follows young socialist Aldo Marín as he flees Pinochet’s Chile in 1976 to take refuge in Italy  

12/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/Chile/Switzerland

Carlos Marqués-Marcet • Director of They Will Be Dust

Interview: Carlos Marqués-Marcet • Director of They Will Be Dust

"I think about death a lot and that makes me very happy"

The Catalan filmmaker talks about his musical about love, family and the final goodbye, giving us some hints about the complexities involved  

14/11/2024 | Spain/Italy/Switzerland

Review: Valentina and the MUOSters

Review: Valentina and the MUOSters

In Francesca Scalisi’s documentary, a young woman tries to wrestle independence from her controlling parents in a Sicilian village under the shadow of an American military espionage base  

31/10/2024 | DOK Leipzig 2024

Review: The Story of Frank and Nina

Review: The Story of Frank and Nina

Paola Randi’s new film about three young people from the north banlieue of Milan is a dynamic and disjointed yet well acted modern fable that doesn’t speak the language of young Zoomers  

02/10/2024 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Switzerland

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