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86 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2006. Last article published on 11/09/2006.

A cinematic gold digger

Although Rêves de poussière (lit. "Dreams of Dust") shows the harsh reality of Burkinese gold diggers who risk their lives every day in precarious shafts in the hopes of finding the gold nugget...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Syrian women in first person

Syrian-born directors Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik are in attendance at the end of this year's Venice Film Festival to present I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Own Grave in the...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Horizons

Oliveira toujours

Fifty years after his first appearance at Venice, with the documentary The Artist and the City, veteran filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira is back at the festival with his latest film, Belle Toujours,...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Out of Competition

America as a river of milk

Emanuele Crialese prefers legend to realism "because it leaves more room for the imagination". Yet the images of the humiliating intelligence tests to which US immigration officials subject...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

A woman a day keeps the doctor away

After the invasion of Cannes and Karlovy Vary, My One and Onlies (Egyetleneim), another discovery from a young Hungarian director, was presented as part of the Critics Week on the Venetian Lido....  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Critics' Week

Palazzo Venezia Festival presented on Lido

Over 200 documentaries from 26 nations and more. The Palazzo Venezia. Arte e Musica Festival (September 8-29) kicks off in Rome with "Gassmaniadi", a video homage over eight hours long to the...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Events

Private Property: Family rivalries

After experimenting with a comic tone in his second feature film, Ça rend heureux, Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (read the interview) is back to the same subjects that fed his directorial...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Who’s afraid of the big bad hyena?

Polish director Grzegorz Lewandowski makes his feature debut with the children’s horror story Hyena (Hiena), which was presented as part of the International Critics Week on the Venetian Lido...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Critics Week

These Encounters of Theirs: deserted by audiences and the filmmakers

An immobile camera, semi-immobile actors, lines performed almost tonelessly: judging by the general flight of journalists from the press screening of their film at the Venice Film Festival, it is...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

A magical flute for Branagh

"Taking opera out of the theatre, to make it accessible to wider audiences": such is British philanthropist Sir Peter Moores’s stated objective behind his eponymous foundation, which, since 1964,...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Out of competition

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