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Arras 2023


47 articles available in total starting from 23/11/2022. Last article published on 14/11/2023.

Review: Holly

Review: Holly

VENICE 2023: Belgian director Fien Troch offers a fantastic escape in all meanings of the word in the mysterious lands of faith and peer pressure  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Hesitation Wound

Review: Hesitation Wound

VENICE 2023: Turkey's Selman Nacar confirms the extent of his potential thanks to a legal and intimate thriller with a script that knows very well how to hide its hand and of a sharp social realism  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Selman Nacar  • Director of Hesitation Wound

Interview: Selman Nacar • Director of Hesitation Wound

“I'm interested in characters who are stuck in between emotions because I believe Turkey is in a similar situation”

VENICE 2023: The rising Turkish director dissects his taut new feature, which is equally a courtroom procedural and a character study  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík  • Directors of Photophobia

Interview: Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík • Directors of Photophobia

“We didn’t want to elicit feelings of pathos; these children bring a different kind of emotion”

VENICE 2023: The Slovakian directors grab their video camera and head down to a Kharkiv Metro station in Ukraine in order to depict the war from the point of view of two children  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

Interview: Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

"This particular episode about the chaos of the revolution in the aftermath of Ceaușescu's downfall is not well known in Romania"

The director and the screenwriter discuss their film, in which they explore the civil war-like events that took place in Sibiu during the last days of 1989's Romanian Revolution  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Review: Bosnian Pot

Review: Bosnian Pot

Pavo Marinković offers up a warm-hearted, comforting story about a failed writer trying to stay in the country he came to as a refugee decades ago  

16/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Open Air

Review: Libertate

Review: Libertate

Romanian helmer Tudor Giurgiu converts the real-life events of the Romanian Revolution in Sibiu into a thrilling, emotional and narrative-defying experience  

16/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Dragan Bjelogrlić  • Director of Guardians of the Formula

Interview: Dragan Bjelogrlić • Director of Guardians of the Formula

“The Cold War has never stopped”

The Serbian actor-director’s latest effort is a Cold War-set drama revolving around the first-ever human bone-marrow transplant  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Review: Guardians of the Formula

Review: Guardians of the Formula

Serbian helmer Dragan Bjelogrlić comes up with a skilfully constructed scientific drama lifting the lid on little-known historical events  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar • Directors of She Came at Night

Interview: Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar • Directors of She Came at Night

“Our goal was to create an ambivalent character: sometimes you want to kill her, sometimes you want to hug her”

The directorial duo delight in proving that your own mother is your biggest fear  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

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