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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

Exit Through the Gift Shop completes selection

The official selection for the 60th Berlinale is now complete, with 26 films, including 20 in competition, from 18 countries. Besides the titles announced in December (see news) and January (see...  

01/02/2010 | Berlinale 2010 | Competition

Polanski and Scorsese in competition line-up

Seven of the 26 titles in official competition at the 60th Berlin Film Festival were announced yesterday, including three entirely European productions and two co-productions with third countries....  

16/12/2009 | Berlinale 2010 | Competition

Von Trotta’s Vision centres on visionary, influential heroine

“The producer chose the title, because it’s comprehensible in many languages,” explained Margarethe von Trotta, who may have preferred a different title for Vision, her biography of Hildegard of...  

23/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany

Brotherhood: Love and other bonds

Like Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, which was unjustly pigeonholed as that “gay cowboy film,” Danish director Nicolo Donato’s feature debut Brotherhood, in competition at the Rome Film Festival,...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Denmark

Diritti captures Nazi horrors through eyes of little girl

A woman’s swollen, hard belly. “What do you have in your belly?”, “Are you expecting a baby?”, repeat continuously, obsessively, the children of Monte Sole, the hills just a few kilometres from...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Castellitto searches for son, and himself in Keep Up Your Head

With his second film (and second time in competition at the Rome Film Festival), after the superb The Salty Air, Alessandro Angelini confirms his talent and sincere, original perspective with...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Kahn serves up fiery Regrets in Rome

French director Cédric Kahn returns to the world of adults for Regrets, the follow-up to his children’s film The Airplane. The film is the only fully French production in Competition at the Rome...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/France

Scenes from Tolstoy’s marriage in The Last Station

Husband and wife argue, scream, smash the china, laugh, hug, and make up: the normal ups and downs in any marriage, you could say. But when the Mr. and Mrs. are Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia,...  

18/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany-UK

Every Day is a Holiday: Echoes of war between dream and reality

In post-war Lebanon, every day is a holiday. "Every day is different. Every day we expect a catastrophe, which sometimes happens, and sometimes does not,” says Lebanese director Dima El-Horr (who...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition

Three characters lost in the night in After

Seville-born director Alberto Rodríguez presented his eagerly awaited new work, After, in Official Competition at the 4th Rome Film Festival. The film is a devastating and bittersweet journey to...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Spain

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