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1059 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 10/07/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Hiam Abbass and Dali Benssalah are filming Meursault contre-enquête

EXCLUSIVE: Hiam Abbass and Dali Benssalah are filming Meursault contre-enquête

Nabil Asli, Amina Ben Ismaïl, Raphaël Thiéry and Grégoire Monsaingeon also star in Malek Bensmaïl’s first fiction film, steered by Tita B Productions and Hikayet Films  

02/10/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Algeria/Belgium/Switzerland

Xavier Legrand  • Director of The Successor

Interview: Xavier Legrand • Director of The Successor

“I want to send the audience into a hellish spiral"

The French actor and filmmaker talks about his second feature, a hard-hitting, tragic and murky thriller about toxic masculinities that leaves no one indifferent  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

Review: The Successor

Review: The Successor

French director Xavier Legrand stresses that Father's Day is not exactly his favourite celebration with this brutal yet elegant film  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of A Silence

Interview: Joachim Lafosse • Director of A Silence

“The venom of crime spreads by creating shame, silence and guilt”

The Belgian director’s film looks at the role played by silence in cases of child abuse  

26/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: A Silence

Review: A Silence

Joachim Lafosse explores in depth the silencing mechanisms around situations of sexual violence, particularly within families  

25/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Filming on Olivier Meys’ L'Été de Jahia enters the home straight

Filming on Olivier Meys’ L'Été de Jahia enters the home straight

The Belgian filmmaker, who turned heads with his debut feature Bitter Flowers, has just wrapped filming on his second opus  

18/09/2023 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France/Luxembourg

Alix Delaporte  • Director of On the Pulse

Interview: Alix Delaporte • Director of On the Pulse

“My characters are all vivants – full of joy, of energy, of passion”

VENICE 2023: The French director homes in on an energetic editorial desk at a Paris television news station, where she follows a young intern  

11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

Interview: Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what happened  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

Interview: Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

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