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10910 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 29/07/2025.

Mihai Mincan  • Director of To the North

Interview: Mihai Mincan • Director of To the North

“I wanted to make a film about the fear one feels when one’s life is under another’s power”

VENICE 2022: The Romanian director spills the beans on his morally challenging first fiction feature, focusing on a stowaway who’s discovered on board a container ship sailing to America  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Rachid Hami • Director of For My Country

Interview: Rachid Hami • Director of For My Country

"It’s not a case of the army against a family of suburban Arabs"

VENICE 2022: The director sheds light on his second feature, a fiction film inspired by the accidental death of his own brother while training to be an officer in the French army  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: The Last Queen

Review: The Last Queen

VENICE 2022: Duo Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri make their feature film debut with a movie looking back on an historic event in 16th century Algeria from a female perspective  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: To the North

Review: To the North

VENICE 2022: Mihai Mincan’s fiction debut explores the terrible consequences of kindness  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: Blanquita

Review: Blanquita

VENICE 2022: It’s a dark, dark world in Fernando Guzzoni’s well-executed title. And it feels worryingly familiar  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: L’immensità

Review: L’immensità

VENICE 2022: Emanuele Crialese recounts her gender-fluid adolescence in a sophisticated and colourful film, set apart by the starry presence of Penélope Cruz  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Other People’s Children

Review: Other People’s Children

VENICE 2022: With brilliantly subtle simplicity, Rebecca Zlotowski paints an incredible portrait of a woman in love, without children, beautifully acted by Virginie Efira  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

Interview: Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

"For so many years, these people have been invisible; now we need to build this history of the queer culture"

VENICE 2022: The French director talks about his new documentary, dedicated to what used to be a refuge for the first-ever clandestine network of cross-dressers  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Autobiography

Review: Autobiography

VENICE 2022: Echoes of Indonesia’s 31-year dictatorship abound in the present, in debutant Makbul Mubarak’s sombre political drama  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Florent Gouëlou • Director of Three Nights a Week

Interview: Florent Gouëlou • Director of Three Nights a Week

“I wanted to pay tribute to the many faces of drag”

VENICE 2022: With his drag rom-com, the French director truly brings the party to the Lido  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

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