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

Review: Behind the Mountains

Review: Behind the Mountains

VENICE 2023: In Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia’s mysterious and suggestive new film, you’ll believe a dad can fly  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Holly

Review: Holly

VENICE 2023: Belgian director Fien Troch offers a fantastic escape in all meanings of the word in the mysterious lands of faith and peer pressure  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

Interview: Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

"The film is haunted by an outlook full of desire and danger"

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke to us about the symbolic figure of the vampire, the blend of genres in her movie and the impossibility of fitting in with society’s normative false pretences  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: On the Pulse

Review: On the Pulse

VENICE 2023: Despite its many high-quality components, Alix Delaporte doesn’t pull off her portrayal of a group of international correspondents, on account of excessive goodwill  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Green Border

Review: Green Border

VENICE 2023: Polish leading light Agnieszka Holland returns with an adroit look at Belarus’s disruption of her country’s and the EU’s immigration policies  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: For Night Will Come

Review: For Night Will Come

VENICE 2023: An incisive, vampiric teen movie, Céline Rouzet’s debut feature film explores such subjects as the rejection of difference, family solidarity and the injustice of the world  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: Backstage

Review: Backstage

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Io Capitano

Review: Io Capitano

VENICE 2023: Focusing on two African teenagers’ voyage to Europe, Matteo Garrone maintains his usual formal rigour but does not give the viewer a true impression of the horrors of migration  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Through the Night

Review: Through the Night

VENICE 2023: Delphine Girard’s hard-hitting and meticulous first feature film revolves around a striking and unprecedented trio: a woman, a rapist and the policewoman who answered her distress call  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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