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559 articles available in total starting from 06/03/2003. Last article published on 20/08/2025.

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis  • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

Interview: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

“The role of Luciano grew with our lead actor; he really became the character”

CANNES 2021: The Italian duo have presented their first feature film, set in a fictional 19th century, in the Directors’ Fortnight  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Three Floors

Review: Three Floors

CANNES 2021: Nanni Moretti delivers a jaw-droppingly bad soap opera with the who’s who of Italian cinema  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Laura Samani  • Director of Small Body

Interview: Laura Samani • Director of Small Body

“Now the film is not mine any more; it belongs to others, and I am curious to know what the viewer feels while watching it”

CANNES 2021: The Italian director presents her first feature, a drama about a woman whose baby daughter is stillborn, in the Critics’ Week  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Tale of King Crab

Review: The Tale of King Crab

CANNES 2021: This atypical fiction film debut by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis is an ironic revisiting of the western genre intertwining Italian and South American legends  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Small Body

Review: Small Body

CANNES 2021: Laura Samani’s debut film is a story about women in north-east Italy at the beginning of the 20th century who rebel against the dominant culture and hold on to hope  

10/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Review: A Chiara

Review: A Chiara

CANNES 2021: Jonas Carpignano closes his “Gioia Tauro trilogy” with a film halfway between documentary and fiction that centres on a young girl in a criminal family  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Arthur Harari  • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Interview: Arthur Harari • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

"I wanted to make a film that was bigger than me, that was beyond me"

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker explains the genesis of his extraordinary second feature, which was presented in the opening slot of the Un Certain Regard section  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Review: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

CANNES 2021: Arthur Harari delivers a breath-taking movie, in the tradition of the greatest classic films, depicting the 10,000 nights spent in the jungle by a Japanese fighter forgotten on an island  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Review: The Land of Sons

Review: The Land of Sons

The new film from Claudio Cupellini, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Gipi and set in a post-apocalyptic future, is an ancestral, disturbing mirror of the present  

01/07/2021 | Films | Reviews | Italy/France

Laura Samani’s stark fairy tale Small Body is selected for Cannes

Laura Samani’s stark fairy tale Small Body is selected for Cannes

An Italian-French-Slovenian co-production steered by Nefertiti Film, the Trieste-born director’s debut feature will take part in the 60th edition of Cannes’ Critics’ Week  

09/06/2021 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/Slovenia

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