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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

The latest feature film by the brilliant Filipino director Lav Diaz depicts the torments of a lieutenant obsessed with a mysterious, unsolved case  

06/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: The Permanent Picture

Review: The Permanent Picture

Laura Ferrés presents an original and free film, somewhere between dark comedy and costumbrista drama  

06/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Yannick

Review: Yannick

Quentin Dupieux delivers a formidably effective, simple yet surprising and incisive dark comedy about an absence of love and its potentially tragic consequences  

01/08/2023 | Films | Reviews | France

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

Interview: Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

“People act selfish and fearful, and this can be applied to both society and individuals”

The Georgian director dives right into our beliefs and hopes in her latest, touching film set in a mining community  

12/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Ernst De Geer  • Director of The Hypnosis

Interview: Ernst De Geer • Director of The Hypnosis

"We wanted to be personal, but not too personal, and unique, but not too crazy"

The Swedish director talks about what is behind his first feature, a satire on modern society and about the conventions dictating how we behave with each other  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Citizen Saint

Review: Citizen Saint

Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili departs from her earlier style with this black-and-white allegory that combines religion and superstition to strange and intriguing effect  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: The Hypnosis

Review: The Hypnosis

Debuting director Ernst De Geer wants you to feel uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: First clip for Locarno competition title The Permanent Picture

EXCLUSIVE: First clip for Locarno competition title The Permanent Picture

The first feature by Spanish filmmaker Laura Ferrés, a Spanish-French co-production co-written by Carlos Vermut, will compete for the Golden Leopard at the Swiss festival  

05/07/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Red Island

Review: Red Island

Robin Campillo puts decolonisation through a very subtle sieve in a film about a family and the French military presence in Madagascar  

30/05/2023 | France/Belgium

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall scoops the Palme d’Or

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall scoops the Palme d’Or

CANNES 2023: Other prizes have gone to Jonathan Glazer, Tran Anh Húng, Aki Kaurismäki, Turkey’s Merve Dizdar, and Japan’s Kōji Yakusho and Yuji Sakamoto  

27/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Awards

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