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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Zonca’s Julia to compete for Lion

News surrounding the potential entries at the 64th Venice Film Festival (August 29 – September 8) is firming up two weeks from the July 26 press conference. According to information communicated...  

13/07/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition/France

Second Wind to open second edition

Daniel Auteuil and Monica Bellucci will be in the spotlight at the RomeFilmFest (October 18-27, 2007), as Second Wind by French director Alain Corneau (see article) has been selected to open its...  

04/07/2007 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Kusturica keeps his promise

Cross the hills to go to the village sell his cow, buy a religious icon and find a wife: Tsane makes these three promises to his grandfather, who believes he is dying. It is not the Brothers...  

26/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

A seducer, An Old Mistress and a young wife

An expert at exploring the dependence between bodies and souls, controversial French director Catherine Breillat – selected for the first time in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival...  

25/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Sokurov and Mother Russia

A grandmother visiting her grandson (an officer in a military unit stationed in Chechnya) makes friends with a group of Chechen women. Without showing the conflict directly but behind and within...  

24/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Fatih Akin between love and hate

Success opens doors but creates pressure. Four years after Head-On, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin and acclaimed in numerous countries, Fatih Akin (born 1973 in Hamburg to Turkish parents)...  

23/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/Germany

The Man from London: Tarr, a master of hypnosis

The international press is certain to remember for a long time yet yesterday’s official competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival of The Man from London by Hungarian director Béla Tarr,...  

23/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/Hungary

The tragicomic magic of Persepolis

Official competition this afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival had a touch of the unusual, with the press screening of animated film Persepolis, a debut feature made almost entirely in 2D and...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Bac Films chooses Mexicans and wild card Reygadas

A true darling of the Cannes Film Festival with a 2002 Caméra d’Or Special Mention for his debut film Japan and the controversy triggered by the 2005 official competition screening of Battle in...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Deep emotions in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

New York-born director Julian Schnabel took his first successful steps in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival today, where he presented his French production The Diving Bell and the...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

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