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264 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 04/09/2025.

Our Children

The fifth feature-length film of Belgian director Joachim Lafosse continues the director’s exploration of limits and fractured families.  

06/07/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Nicolas Wadimoff • Director

Bank secrecy and revolutionaries

The Genevan filmmaker tells Cineuropa about making Operation Libertad, his fake documentary selected for the Directors' Fortnight.  

11/05/2012

Operation Libertad

A daring film, selected for the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, traces the destiny of young Swiss revolutionaries in the late 1970s.  

11/05/2012 | Films | Reviews

Sister

After her debut in Cannes, Ursula Meier confirms her talent with a masterful social film starring young actors Kacey Mottet Klein and Léa Seydoux. Special Jury Award in Berlin.  

12/04/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Ursula Meier • Director

Swiss cinema at its peak

Cineuropa met the French-Swiss director awarded in Berlin for Sister 

22/03/2012

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher • Director

"Great things can be born out of a crisis"

Analysis of Corpo Celeste, selected in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2011, the debut narrative feature by a young Italian director trained in documentary filmmaking.  

02/12/2011

Corpo Celeste

What lies behind the stranglehold of Catholicism in southern Italy. A realistic, sensitive and subtle debut feature unveiled at Cannes.  

02/12/2011 | Films | Reviews

French contingent heads to Locarno

Gallic production will be particularly in the spotlight at the 64th Locarno International Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday, August 3. Four films will indeed be shown in international...  

29/07/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland/France

Hansen-Love, Klotz and Ameur-Zaimèche in competition at Locarno

The arrival last year of Olivier Père (photo), the former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selector, as artistic director of the Locarno International Film Festival seems to be a pulling point for...  

23/06/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland/France

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