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1285 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2002. Last article published on 16/12/2025.

Vanja d’Alcantara • Director of Cap Farewell

Interview: Vanja d’Alcantara • Director of Cap Farewell

"I almost feel a responsibility to make optimistic films"

The Belgian director chatted with us about her third feature film, a family-focused drama about the emancipatory trajectory of a young woman who needs to start over from zero  

14/10 | Namur 2025

IDFA unveils its Forum line-up

IDFA unveils its Forum line-up

The Dutch festival’s industry strand explores the vital realities of today, as seen through the eyes of both new and seasoned filmmakers  

14/10 | IDFA 2025 | IDFA for Professionals

Review: Cap Farewell

Review: Cap Farewell

Belgian filmmaker Vanja d’Alcantara delivers a family drama borrowing from film noir and unfolding against a backdrop of female emancipation  

10/10 | Namur 2025

Our Girls and The Garden of Earthly Delights triumph at the Golden Calves

Our Girls and The Garden of Earthly Delights triumph at the Golden Calves

Mike van Diem’s and Morgan Knibbe’s dramas were the big winners of this year’s awards, handed out at the 45th Netherlands Film Festival  

06/10 | Festivals | Awards | Netherlands

Review: Skiff

Review: Skiff

Cecilia Verheyden delivers a tender and resonant coming-of-age tale, culminating in a final act that lingers thanks to its brutal honesty  

03/10 | Arras 2025

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

Interview: Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

“We try to select films that provide meaning and open people’s eyes to certain realities of life”

We head to the Netherlands and Belgium to speak to the pair of distributors about the particulars of working across the Benelux region  

30/09 | Distributor of the Month

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

Interview: John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

“I was around eight at the time, and these little stories have haunted me ever since”

The Swedish director breaks down his story of a farm worker who spends a fair share of the latter half of his life fortifying his house during the Cold War  

24/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: Redoubt

Review: Redoubt

A bull-headed Denis Lavant triumphs as a Swedish Cold War stronghold preparer in John Skoog’s first fiction feature  

22/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: Amoeba

Review: Amoeba

Siyou Tan’s perceptive debut feature finds four Singaporean high-schoolers battling against social conformity by forming a girl gang  

15/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

Cato Kusters • Director of Julian

Interview: Cato Kusters • Director of Julian

“We wanted the texture of the film to resemble the texture of memory and memories”

We met with the young Flemish filmmaker to discuss her first fiction feature, adapted from the book by the LGBTQ+ artist and activist Fleur Pierets  

09/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

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