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91 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 15/10/2025.

Review: My Sunshine

Review: My Sunshine

CANNES 2024: This likeable film by Hiroshi Okuyama lacks bite, but it will make you want to put on your old skates again – if you manage to find them, that is  

27/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

Interview: Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

"My film is almost like a joke, about men being so cowardly and women being so determined"

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese filmmaker talks about his new film, a travelogue drama about colonialism, social divides and love  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Grand Tour

Review: Grand Tour

CANNES 2024: Miguel Gomes’ latest effort is a playful, fascinating cinematic experience telling the story of a man who flees his betrothed  

23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Ghost Cat Anzu

Review: Ghost Cat Anzu

CANNES 2024: Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita’s film is a visual feast for fans of Japanese animation, even if the story falls short of expectations  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori • Directors of Johatsu – Into Thin Air

Interview: Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori • Directors of Johatsu – Into Thin Air

“For many of the protagonists, it was a chance for them to speak out for the first time, as they’d had no one to talk to beforehand”

The directorial duo explain where the inspiration for their work came from and delve into their production decisions  

16/05/2024 | DOK.fest Munich 2024

Review: Black Box Diaries

Review: Black Box Diaries

In her CPH:DOX award-winning film, Shiori Ito is simultaneously the author of the source book, an investigator, a director and the victim of a rape by a high-profile journalist  

25/03/2024 | CPH:DOX 2024

Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Guillaume Senez reunites with Romain Duris for Une part manquante

Guillaume Senez reunites with Romain Duris for Une part manquante

First clapperboard for the Belgian filmmaker’s new feature, produced by Versus Production, Les Films Pelléas and Savage Film, shooting in Japan  

17/10/2023 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France/Japan

Review: Last Shadow at First Light

Review: Last Shadow at First Light

In Singaporean director Nicole Midori Woodford's melancholic and sensitive début feature film, a co-production between Asia and Slovenia, the distressed central characters sometimes see ghosts  

02/10/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | New Directors

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