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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Daratt: A barren hatred

What is more necessary, in an African country, than bread? Or those who knead it artfully, cook it and sell it every day? But what if behind that generous and somewhat gruff man, who gives away...  

01/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Memories from Thailand via Mozart

Apichatpong Weerasethakul came to prominence two years ago at Cannes, when he won the Grand Jury Prize for Tropical Malady. Now the 36 year-old former architect from Bangkok is in Venice, where he...  

31/08/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

10 French productions and co-productions vie for Golden Lion

With only two days before the opening of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival (August 30-September 9), French cinema is counting its chances of snapping up a Golden Lion, which it has not...  

28/08/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition/France

Venice hopefuls: Resnais, Jacquot and Ferran

One week after Marco Muller’s stay in Paris, rumours are doing the rounds on the French films to be selected for official competition at the 63rd Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9)....  

14/07/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition/France

Roberta Torre and Enrico Pau in competition

Jimmy della collina (lit. “Jimmy of the Hills”) by Enrico Pau and Dark Sea by Roberta Torre are the two Italian films selected for international competition for the Locarno Film Festival. Dark...  

13/07/2006 | Locarno 2006 | Competition/Italy

Two films vie for Leopard

The 59th Locarno International Film Festival (August 2-12), directed for the first time by Frédéric Maire, will feature 18 German (co-)productions, including two in official competition: Prisoners...  

13/07/2006 | Locarno 2006 | Competition/Germany

Switzerland, Ça rend heureux

The participation of young Belgian director Joachim Lafosse’s Ça rend heureux (lit. "That Makes One Happy") in the official selection of the 59th Locarno International Film Festival has been...  

13/07/2006 | Locarno 2006 | Competition/Belgium

Laurent Achard and Viviane Candas set sights on Leopard

Two French features are among the 21 selected for the official competition of the 59th Locarno International Film Festival (August 2-12). Winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam in 1999 with his...  

13/07/2006 | Locarno 2006 | Competition/France

No sure-fire winners

In Cannes, an air of uncertainty surrounds the speculations of this year’s winners, after a competition that failed to produce one or two definite favourites. However, the last days of the...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Predictions

Black and white magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

The last film screened in official competition at Cannes 2006, the Spanish/Mexican title Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, was well received this morning in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, taking...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Spain

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