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

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann quotes Beau Travail in her latest feature, the slowest example of slow cinema in recent memory  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

Interview: Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

"When I am writing a scene, it’s really about the moment"

The German filmmaker and visual artist reflects on her artistic approach and the investigative drive behind her second slow-paced hypnotic feature  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

This sensitive and at times surreal depiction of a rural policeman (the director’s own uncle) marks the mighty comeback of Alessandro Comodin  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Tommy Guns

Review: Tommy Guns

The past turns into the present and the present into the past in Carlos Conceição's interesting take on one country’s troubled legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Saturn Bowling

Review: Saturn Bowling

Patricia Mazuy presents a strident and hyper-realist thriller exploring the perversions of a patriarchal society which sees itself as invincible  

05/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

Interview: Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

“We’re the audience, too, after all”

We sat down with the helmers of this ambitious European sci-fi co-production, a visually astonishing tale set in a dystopian world where the Earth’s ecosystem has collapsed  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: Vesper

Review: Vesper

After 2012’s Vanishing Waves, Lithuanian director Kristina Buožytė and French helmer Bruno Samper return with an impressive dystopian sci-fi film  

04/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Marie Kreutzer  • Director of Corsage

Interview: Marie Kreutzer • Director of Corsage

“Even in my serious films, I like to create some laughter”

CANNES 2022: The Austrian director talks about blending drama and humour, Empress Elisabeth’s journey to freedom – and dogs  

31/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

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