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11035 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 17/09/2025.

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

Interview: Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

"I experienced for the first time what it is to be with someone who experience a genocide, which is different from a war"

VENICE 2025: The Swiss director talks about his moving film, in which nine Palestinian refugees share their stories in minimalistic surroundings that reproduce the map of Gaza  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

Interview: Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

"The advantage of this idea was being able to portray the youth of today and hear Annie Ernaux's text"

VENICE 2025: The French director tells us about her new documentary, in which she explores the impact of the work penned by the author, about a group of secondary-school students  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Mediawan’s Plan B launches European arm under Ed Macdonald

Mediawan’s Plan B launches European arm under Ed Macdonald

Brad Pitt’s production company is expanding its global reach with a new London-based subsidiary aiming to boost the firm’s production of premium TV series  

09/09 | Industry | Market | UK/USA/France

Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

Interview: Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

“Ivy is a plant that is beautiful but also toxic; that duality really interested me”

VENICE 2025: The Ecuadorian director discusses the sensory approach, working with actors and the formal decisions behind her film  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

Interview: Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

“My political reflections have always been my primary creative drive”

VENICE 2025: The Paris-based Japanese director discusses his social drama which morphs into a thriller, starring Damien Bonnard in the lead  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Review: Palestine 36

Review: Palestine 36

Thanks to a committed choral film weaved with much narrative agility, Annemarie Jacir returns to a sadly decisive historical chapter for the Palestinian people  

08/09 | Toronto 2025 | Gala Presentations

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

Interview: Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

“I wanted to show how quickly our gaze changes”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director gives us the low-down on her new feature, which centres on a ginkgo tree in three different timelines  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Do You Love Me

Review: Do You Love Me

VENICE 2025: Using only archival material, Lebanese director Lana Daher composes a vivid and multiform portrait of her beloved village martyred by too many wars  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

Interview: Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the turn of the last century  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the titular girl’s death  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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