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823 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 28/03/2025.

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Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

Interview: Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

“My desire was to work in this double experience of reality and fiction, and explore the way they mix”

The Galician director reflects on his fourth feature, a meta-cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s theatre threading together many of his previous preoccupations  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

Interview: Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

“I haven’t allowed myself to embrace humour before”

The Portuguese director discusses his new film, which proves that wedding anniversaries can be quite a trip  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

José Filipe Costa presents an impressive meditation on the maintenance of the status quo through a fictionalisation of a period in pre-revolution Portuguese history  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: First Person Plural

Review: First Person Plural

Sandro Aguilar’s feature is a magnetic, cinematic tour de force that brilliantly moves along the labyrinthine paths of human emotion  

05/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Ariel

Review: Ariel

Lois Patiño returns with a dramatic fresco derived from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, before he spirals further into the Bard’s oeuvre  

04/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

Awarded the Cineasti del presente section's Best Emerging Director Prize, Denise Fernandes' title is now competing in Göteborg, prior to being released in Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal  

24/01 | Promotion | Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

Interview: Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

"How do we answer the question of what makes life worth living?"

The Portuguese director shares some insights into his film, a surreal and heartwarming comedy about euthanasia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: May I Speak With the Enemy?

Review: May I Speak With the Enemy?

Alexis Morante recreates the time that the great comedian Miguel Gila spent immersed in the Spanish Civil War, a traumatic experience that the comedian was able to laugh about later in his monologues  

22/11/2024 | Seville 2024

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

Interview: Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

“I wanted to make a film where dialogue came through the body as well as through words”

The Portuguese director chatted with us about his film, which broaches post-natal depression and coming out  

19/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

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