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

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Haile Gerima returns to the past to look to the future

African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Ethiopia-Germany-France

Bechis explores land of dispossessed in Birdwatchers

"We just want a chance to survive". Eliane Juca da Silva didn’t hold back the tears before journalists who had just applauded Marco Bechis’s film Birdwatchers. Eliane stars in the film and belongs...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Venice’s got Milk

Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Milk, the second part in a proposed trilogy, is the Turkish feature in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. The co-production between Turkey,...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

Nostalgia and psychological horror in Avati’s Giovanna’s Father

Love and friendship are the "background noise" (in the director’s own words) to the films of Pupi Avati, who turns 70 in three months. On the Lido, the director presents Giovanna’s Father, which...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition | Italy

The Other One: The magical number two

After Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, the second French film in competition at the Venice Film Festival is appropriately titled The Other One. The film is also the second feature for the cinema by...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Ferzan Ozpetek’s destructive love

The first Italian film to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Ferzan Ozpetek’s A Perfect Day – adapted from Melania Mazzucco’s eponymous novel – is pure tragedy. An intense love...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Jerichow: Secrets, lies and money

German director Christian Petzold continues his exploration of ambling lives in a bankrupt society in the Venice Competition entry Jerichow, a strong film that further consolidates his reputation...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Germany

SBS Films and UGC pin hopes on Barbet Schroeder

Selected in competition in 2000 with Our Lady of the Assassins, Barbet Schroeder will once again vie for the Golden Lion with Inju (see news) at the 65th Venice Film Festival (August 27-September...  

26/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Italian nomadism, French noir, new German cinema

Europe (represented mostly by Italy, France and Germany), quality US films, Japanese animation and a comeback from Africa make up the heart of the official competition of the upcoming Venice Film...  

29/07/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

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