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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Review: Familiar

Review: Familiar

The new family drama by Romanian filmmaker Călin Peter Netzer shows how harsh communist realities still poison the present  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: The Magnet Man

Review: The Magnet Man

Gust Van den Berghe’s latest feature is a melancholic fairytale paying homage to circus and cinema  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

Interview: Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

"It's a comedy, but it's almost like a disaster movie, where the 'Godzilla' is a traditional Montenegrin wedding"

The Montenegrin director discusses his heartwarming and explosive comedy about a very special wedding  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Emma Dante  • Director of Misericordia

Interview: Emma Dante • Director of Misericordia

“This story came about in the darkness and obscurity of the theatre, on a very stripped-back stage”

The Sicilian theatre and film director chatted to us about the origins of her latest project, based on the 2020 play of the same name  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Consent

Review: Consent

Vanessa Filho’s second feature tells the horrific but well-known story of a teenage girl seduced by an older influential writer  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Forever Hold Your Peace

Review: Forever Hold Your Peace

Montenegrin filmmaker Ivan Marinović’s dark comedy alights upon some very unhappy nuptials  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

Interview: Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

"With so much bullshit flooding in, you can't operate a society or a democracy if nobody knows what to believe in"

The Dutch filmmakers discuss their film centred on a priest, a modern-day crusader on a quest to save mankind from darkness  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: The Man from Rome

Review: The Man from Rome

Jaap van Heusden’s latest feature is a gripping psychological drama about a priest seeking the truth behind a mysterious Crying Madonna  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Oxygen Station

Review: Oxygen Station

Ivan Tymchenko tells the story of the Crimean Tatar political activist Mustafa Dzhemilev as a tense piece of a crime fiction and political thriller  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Patient #1

Review: Patient #1

With his latest feature, Rezo Giginieshvili has something to say about the past, the present and the never-changing nature of power that cannot be given away  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

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