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Competition / France


574 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 28/07/2025.

Review: Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

Review: Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

BERLINALE 2022: Andreas Dresen’s new film tells of the odyssey of an ordinary woman forced to transform herself into a true “Mother Courage”  

13/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition

Review: Rimini

Review: Rimini

BERLINALE 2022: Ulrich Seidl returns after a decade-long absence from fiction filmmaking with a characteristically harrowing work, which still finds glints of light in the void  

12/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition

Review: The Line

Review: The Line

BERLINALE 2022: Ursula Meier subtly explores a tumultuous world of intense and contradictory emotions in a film which dazzles for its female cast, led by acting revelation Stéphanie Blanchoud  

11/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition

Review: Peter von Kant

Review: Peter von Kant

BERLINALE 2022: In his occasionally amusing, occasionally absurd tribute to Fassbinder, François Ozon wants to have his champagne and drink it  

11/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition

Review: Herd Immunity

Review: Herd Immunity

Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s latest feature once again boasts a cast split between white clowns and augustes, but the result is far less effective than that achieved in Yellow Cat  

22/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Nabil Ben Yadir  • Director of Animals

Interview: Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals

"To tell this radical story, an equally radical form was needed"

A meeting with the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his fourth feature a film that plunges into the heart of the darkness of the human soul by probing a racist and homophobic crime  

20/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Review: Animals

Review: Animals

Nabil Ben Yadir delivers a radical film gesture which scrutinises the final hours of a young man who’s the victim of a brutal homophobic crime, and the hours which follow his death  

15/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

Interview: Thierry de Peretti • Director of Undercover

“Cinema allows us to show the ambiguities of journalists’ working methods”

The French director spoke to Cineuropa about his competition film and revealed why you can learn a lot about the state from the way it deals with crime  

27/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: The Grandmother

Review: The Grandmother

The worlds of Paco Plaza and Carlos Vermut collide in a hair-raising film which encourages us to think about the fleeting nature of beauty, along with loneliness and the high price we pay for success  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastian 2021 | Competition

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

Interview: Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

“For women, who have been oppressed for centuries, it’s very difficult to speak out about their oppression”

Cineuropa talks with the French director about the nature of love, society’s obssesion with fame, and the limits between fiction and documentary  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

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