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10911 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 30/07/2025.

Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

Interview: Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

"Suddenly, the neighbourhood had kind of become the Cinecittà of the banlieue"

VENICE 2022: The French director talked to us about the genesis of a film as spectacular as it is sensitive and moving  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Queens

Review: Queens

VENICE 2022: Yasmine Benkiran’s debut feature is a parable on female emancipation in Morocco transposed into a hard-hitting road-movie, replete with police tails  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Anhell69

Review: Anhell69

VENICE 2022: Theo Montoya’s hybrid feature is an alarming cri de coeur about how hard it is to be young and queer in Medellín, one of Colombia’s most conservative and most dangerous towns  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics' Week

Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

Interview: Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

“I told the story that was in my heart”

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his film based on his own adolescence, before transitioning  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Saint Omer

Review: Saint Omer

VENICE 2022: Documentary-maker Alice Diop ventures into fiction with a sharp, singular and cryptic film exploring the surface and plunging the deepest depths of an infanticide trial  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

Interview: Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

“To me, a person is basically lonely, despite family or religion or any other community”

VENICE 2022: While dealing with the subject of loneliness, the Japanese writer-director inflicts cruelty on his characters, but also shows them some hope and love  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Love Life

Review: Love Life

VENICE 2022: Rising Japanese maestro Kôji Fukada steps up to his first major festival competition slot with this neatly structured tale of intersecting marriages  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Philippe Petit • Director of Beating Sun

Interview: Philippe Petit • Director of Beating Sun

"There’s growing awareness of the need to have plants around us"

VENICE 2022: The French filmmaker who turned heads with works made outside of the system spoke to us about his highly endearing first feature film  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Tahmina Rafaella • Director of Banu

Interview: Tahmina Rafaella • Director of Banu

“A complete storyline is something that we underestimate”

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the promising Azerbaijani director, whose debut feature follows a mother struggling to gain custody of her son in a patriarchal and sexist country  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Biennale College Cinema

Review: When the Waves Are Gone

Review: When the Waves Are Gone

VENICE 2022: Filipino great Lav Diaz makes another gruelling revenge tragedy, this time focusing on two dirty cops with a grudge  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

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