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

Review: The Lamb

Review: The Lamb

Named Best Film at the Annecy Italian Film Festival, Mario Piredda’s debut work is a powerful portrait of Sardinia, focusing on a young and tenacious protagonist who is fighting for her father’s life  

29/09/2020 | Films | Reviews | Italy/France

Michele Placido filming Caravaggio’s Shadow

Michele Placido filming Caravaggio’s Shadow

The shoot has begun in Naples for the Italian-French co-production about the tempestuous life of the great Italian painter; the cast includes Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel and Isabelle Huppert  

29/09/2020 | Production | Funding | Italy/France

The best of Italian cinema set to be showcased in Annecy

The best of Italian cinema set to be showcased in Annecy

Running 21 – 27 September, the 38th edition of the event will take a hybrid form, unfolding in cinemas and online, with several Venetian titles shining bright within the line-up  

21/09/2020 | Festivals | Awards | France/Italy

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

“This film is more extreme because you don’t know where you are”

VENICE 2020: We talked to seemingly indefatigable documentary auteur Gianfranco Rosi about his competition entry Notturno  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Notturno

Review: Notturno

VENICE 2020: The most meticulous of cinematic artists, Gianfranco Rosi, takes an intricate, compassionate and poetic look at daily life along the Middle Eastern front line  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio  • Directors of Una promessa

Interview: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio • Directors of Una promessa

"Out in the fields, the day labourers die shrouded in invisibility and oblivion, like the desaparecidos"

VENICE 2020: Brothers Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio talk to us about their second fiction film Una promessa, about a father and a son reduced to slave labour in the fields  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Una promessa

Review: Una promessa

VENICE 2020: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio return to fiction film with a story of fatherly love set in the cruel, illegal world of exploited farm labourers  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianfranco Rosi visits the borders of war zones in Notturno

Gianfranco Rosi visits the borders of war zones in Notturno

The Italian directors’s new documentary, playing in Competition in Venice, charts three years of travel in the Middle East to tell the stories and meet the characters involved in the conflict  

21/08/2020 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/Germany

Yuri Ancarani and Marco Alessi  • Director and producer of Atlantide

Interview: Yuri Ancarani and Marco Alessi • Director and producer of Atlantide

“You can’t write a film and then wait for the financing”

We talked to Yuri Ancarani and Marco Alessi, the director and producer of the Venice-centred Atlantide, given the Eurimages Lab Project Award at this year’s KVIFF Eastern Promises  

13/07/2020 | Karlovy Vary 2020 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Jivan Avetisyan’s Gate to Heaven ready for release

Jivan Avetisyan’s Gate to Heaven ready for release

The international war drama, co-produced by eight countries, will star Richard Sammel in the lead role  

19/06/2020 | Production | Funding | Armenia/Lithuania/Germany/France/USA/Bulgaria/Czech Republic/Italy

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