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Competition / France


573 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Review: Bad Living

Review: Bad Living

BERLINALE 2023: João Canijo’s take on a family drama feels claustrophobic and sombre, yet after it gets under your skin, that’s where it stays, for better or worse  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

João Canijo • Director of Bad Living and Living Bad

Interview: João Canijo • Director of Bad Living and Living Bad

"Mothers can make the life of their daughters a misery"

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the Portuguese director about hotels that can feel like prisons and the unbearable weight of family  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition/Encounters

Lila Avilés • Director of Tótem

Interview: Lila Avilés • Director of Tótem

“To think about death is to think about life”

BERLINALE 2023: The Mexican director finds beauty in last goodbyes  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: Music

Review: Music

BERLINALE 2023: Angela Schanelec uses her trademark style to retell the Oedipus myth, but whether the experience is worth the energy and concentration it requires is debatable  

22/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: The Plough

Review: The Plough

BERLINALE 2023: Philippe Garrel finds a bit of colour and refines his stripped-back, reflective and novelistic art even further by passing it through a softer family filter  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

Interview: Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

“I wanted to make a war film where both perspectives, both sides were fully explored”

BERLINALE 2023: We met with the Italian director to discuss his debut fiction feature film toplined by Franz Rogowski  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: Totem

Review: Totem

BERLINALE 2023: Lila Avilés crafts a delicate, perceptive and super sensitive story, delving into human nature as depicted through one home and one family over the course of a single day  

20/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: Disco Boy

Review: Disco Boy

BERLINALE 2023: Giacomo Abbruzzese breaks free from genres with an intense and highly promising first film covering Europe, Africa, war and animism, carried by the brilliant Franz Rogowski  

19/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: Cold as Marble

Review: Cold as Marble

Two lovers and a convict father make the leap from comedy to tragedy in Asif Rustamov’s sophomore directorial effort  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

Interview: Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

“Women have problems making people believe them”

We talked to the French filmmaker about her highly sensitive and disturbing drama about a woman who experiences pregnancy denial  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

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