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39 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2024. Last article published on 13/11/2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser poster for The Exiles, selected in Toronto’s Centrepiece section

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser poster for The Exiles, selected in Toronto’s Centrepiece section

The new film by Belén Funes, director of A Thief’s Daughter, is a Spanish-Chilean co-production about emigration, family ties and grief, starring Antonia Zegers  

29/08 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Toronto announces its Centrepiece and TIFF Docs line-ups

Toronto announces its Centrepiece and TIFF Docs line-ups

The former section includes nine world premieres of European titles, whilst the festival’s documentary strand has four  

08/08 | Toronto 2024

Hiroshi Okuyama • Director of My Sunshine

Interview: Hiroshi Okuyama • Director of My Sunshine

"The story follows the growth of a young boy from the falling of the first snowflakes until the snow melts"

CANNES 2024: The Japanese director discusses his gentle feature following a boy who dreams of becoming a figure skater, set amidst beautiful, wintery surroundings  

31/05 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Flow

Review: Flow

CANNES 2024: Gints Zilbalodis’ endearing animated tale, about a black cat in the aftermath of a catastrophic flood, is the hidden gem of this year’s Cannes Film Festival  

29/05 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Sandhya Suri • Director of Santosh

Interview: Sandhya Suri • Director of Santosh

"We spent the days researching with the police and the evenings bringing that reality into the script"

CANNES 2024: The British-Indian filmmaker discusses her fiction debut, a story of a woman who goes from being a housewife to a widow to becoming a police officer  

27/05 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

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 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: To a Land Unknown

Review: To a Land Unknown

CANNES 2024: Mahdi Fleifel’s second feature is a migrant drama steeped in empathy, boasting an uncompromising lead performance by Mahmood Bakri  

25/05 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

CANNES 2024: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof helms a remarkable political film about the feminist revolution in his country through the carefully scripted misadventures of a small family  

25/05 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

Interview: Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

“I’m always intrigued by what it means to have no place where you belong”

CANNES 2024: The Palestinian-Danish director takes on the melancholy of exile as two Palestinian cousins get stranded in Greece  

24/05 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

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