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837 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Review: Two Times João Liberada

Review: Two Times João Liberada

BERLINALE 2025: Paula Tomás Marques's debut feature opens the doors to the realm of possibilities as a strong exercise about historical cinematic representation  

19/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski • Director of The Memory of Butterflies

Interview: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski • Director of The Memory of Butterflies

"This showed once again to me, that documentary is never objective, it's always about the perspective"

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Peruvian filmmaker about her documentary, how she got interested in its subject and how she approached archive images  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Review: The Memory of Butterflies

Review: The Memory of Butterflies

BERLINALE 2025: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s debut feature is an essay film that makes intelligent use of archive images, offering an alternate vision of the Peruvian colonial period  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Cross-border eco-thriller series Lume illuminates the power of co-production

Cross-border eco-thriller series Lume illuminates the power of co-production

Set against the backdrop of a borderland ravaged by wildfires, the show, created by Irene Pin and Sara Rodi, underscores the real-world impact of environmental neglect  

14/02 | Production | Funding | Spain/Portugal

Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

Interview: Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

“My desire was to work in this double experience of reality and fiction, and explore the way they mix”

The Galician director reflects on his fourth feature, a meta-cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s theatre threading together many of his previous preoccupations  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

José Filipe Costa  • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

Interview: Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

“I haven’t allowed myself to embrace humour before”

The Portuguese director discusses his new film, which proves that wedding anniversaries can be quite a trip  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

José Filipe Costa presents an impressive meditation on the maintenance of the status quo through a fictionalisation of a period in pre-revolution Portuguese history  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: First Person Plural

Review: First Person Plural

Sandro Aguilar’s feature is a magnetic, cinematic tour de force that brilliantly moves along the labyrinthine paths of human emotion  

05/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Ariel

Review: Ariel

Lois Patiño returns with a dramatic fresco derived from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, before he spirals further into the Bard’s oeuvre  

04/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

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