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256 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

Interview: Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

“I would like to embrace the idea of the filmmaker or the artist as a healer”

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Why War

Review: Why War

VENICE 2024: In his philosophical film essay, Israeli director Amos Gitai tries to explore the root of mankind’s lust for war and destruction  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Transamazonia

Review: Transamazonia

Despite its fascinating aesthetics, Pia Marais’ latest feature fails to deliver a compelling tale owing to its confusing writing  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Iranian director Leila Amini films her sister, an aspiring singer, across seven years, in a country where public singing by women is banned  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Semaine de la Critique

Review: The Medium

Review: The Medium

Emmanuel Laskar directs and stars in a highly unique romantic and melancholy comedy revolving around a loser who’s self-conscious about his susceptibility to the paranormal  

09/07/2024 | Films | Reviews | France/Switzerland

Alexe Poukine  • Director of Who Cares?

Interview: Alexe Poukine • Director of Who Cares?

“Is it possible to be benevolent in an abusive system?”

Cineuropa met with the Belgian director, whose new documentary focuses on caregivers’ sense of empathy and the way in which institutions prevent them from applying it  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

The Alentours Forum selects 22 projects

The Alentours Forum selects 22 projects

The Strasbourg-based event unspooling between 2 and 4 July has announced its selection, featuring Benoît Volnais’ new movie  

26/06/2024 | Alentours Forum 2024

Review: Savages

Review: Savages

Claude Barras’ new film transports us into the heart of Borneo where the fight to safeguard nature, but also one’s own identity, becomes primordial  

18/06/2024 | Annecy 2024

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