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

Review: Nezouh

Review: Nezouh

VENICE 2022: By way of an allegory and against a backdrop of female emancipation, Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan explores the dilemma of whether to stay or leave a town destroyed by war  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

Review: Athena

Review: Athena

VENICE 2022: Romain Gavras delivers an adrenaline-fuelled and highly emotional family tragedy that doubles as a potent allegory for the tensions of the French banlieue  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

Interview: Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"

VENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny Greek island and has to decide what to make of his future  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Beating Sun

Review: Beating Sun

VENICE 2022: Philippe Petit signs a very engaging first feature film about a landscape gardener trying to overcome obstacles in the way of a personal and utopian open garden project  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Casa Susanna

Review: Casa Susanna

VENICE 2022: Digging into his favourite topic of the different facets of identity, Sébastien Lifshitz signs a remarkable documentary on a phalanstery of American transvestites in the 1950s and 1960s  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: For My Country

Review: For My Country

VENICE 2022: Rachid Hami signs a work at once expansive and sensitive on the place of each individual and the recognition of others in a family microcosm and in the macrocosm of France  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: The Sitting Duck

Review: The Sitting Duck

VENICE 2022: A whistleblower or a malingerer? Jean-Paul Salomé’s captivating thriller looks back on the real-life misadventures of a trade unionist played by the great Isabelle Huppert  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: A Couple

Review: A Couple

VENICE 2022: Frederick Wiseman tries his hand at fiction for a second time, delivering a radical work about the passion and torments of Sophie Tolstoi vis-à-vis her famous husband  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: The Origin of Evil

Review: The Origin of Evil

VENICE 2022: In Sébastien Marnier’s rococo suspense piece, Laure Calamy seeks to join a family of French Trumps  

01/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Giornate degli Autori title Kristos – The Last Child

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Giornate degli Autori title Kristos – The Last Child

Giulia Amati’s new documentary zooms in on Kristos, the last remaining child among the 30 inhabitants of Arki, a windswept island in Greece’s Dodecanese  

01/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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