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10909 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 28/07/2025.

Jean-Gabriel Périot prepares Facing Darkness

Jean-Gabriel Périot prepares Facing Darkness

The upcoming documentary from the French filmmaker, produced by Alter Ego Production, has distinguished itself amongst the projects presented on the Lido at the Gap-Financing Market  

07/09/2021 | France/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Switzerland/Germany

Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost Illusions

Interview: Xavier Giannoli • Director of Lost Illusions

“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”

VENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with the director revisiting “the matrix of the modern world as we know it”  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Antoine Barraud  • Director of Madeleine Collins

Interview: Antoine Barraud • Director of Madeleine Collins

"For those people who lie, life is always scary"

VENICE 2021: The French director presents his third feature, toplined by Virginie Efira as a woman who leads a double life immersed in secrets and lies  

07/09/2021 | Venise 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Lost Illusions

Review: Lost Illusions

VENICE 2021: Xavier Giannoli’s lavish Balzac canvas is a colourful ride through the Paris of the splendiferous 1820s  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Episode 07: Vesper (Lithuania/France/Belgium)

Episode 07: Vesper (Lithuania/France/Belgium)

The producers of Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper's film are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support  

06/09/2021 | The Co-production Podcast

Review: Happening

Review: Happening

VENICE 2021: Audrey Diwan adapts Annie Ernaux’s memoir about her attempts to have an illegal abortion in France in the 1960s  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: The Great Movement

Review: The Great Movement

VENICE 2021: Bolivia’s Kiro Russo delivers a fascinating film where nature and the poison of sprawling urbanisation collide to seismic effect  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

Interview: Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

“We descended 400 metres to film the ungovernable”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director joined up with a group of speleologists in a Calabrian cave to recreate the expedition dating back to 1961  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Matteo Tortone  • Director of Mother Lode

Interview: Matteo Tortone • Director of Mother Lode

“As soon as I knew that the story would be set in Peru, I wanted to limit the exotic vision we normally have of the country”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director unpicks his black-and-white social drama that follows a young man willing to sacrifice his life in a gold mine in Peru  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

Interview: Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

“The forest brings mystery and ambivalence, which shifts the narrative”

The Belgian filmmaker tells us about his first feature, a sensitive and bewitching drama about the unexpected encounter between two wounded children searching for love  

05/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

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