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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

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

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

Aida Begic  • Director of A Ballad

Interview: Aida Begic • Director of A Ballad

"I wanted to make a love story and experiment with everything that is 'forbidden' in arthouse cinema"

The Bosnian filmmaker tried her hand at romantic comedy for the first time in her latest film, which opened the Sarajevo Film Festival  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Review: A Ballad

Review: A Ballad

Aida Begić’s Brechtian and melancholic comedy finds a young divorcee returning to her hometown to re-examine her life  

17/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

"I had to embrace the subject, and to show courage"

The French director discusses her very dark film noir with a very scary protagonist  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Interview: Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

"The film is in a way a tribute to these typical village characters"

In his latest film, awarded with the festival's Special Jury Prize, the Italian filmmaker explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Rule 34

Review: Rule 34

Brazilian filmmaker Júlia Murat's Golden Leopard winner stages the obsessive, simultaneously exhilarating and dangerous pursuit of pleasure as a political act  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Stella in Love

Review: Stella in Love

Sylvie Verheyde’s seventh feature is an atmospheric vintage revisiting of her teenage years, spent on the verge of an adulthood which seems to offer scant prospects  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

Interview: Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

“It’s all about breaking down walls and old ideas”

The Angola-born Portuguese director isn’t writing off the past just yet  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

Interview: Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

"I believe that nowadays, many adolescents find themselves very much alone and have a hard time finding their own voices"

The French helmer goes back in time by reflecting on her youth, more than a decade after her first autobiographical film Stella  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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