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5757 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 21/08/2025.

Review: They Will Be Dust

Review: They Will Be Dust

Spanish filmmaker Carlos Marques-Marcet's newest feature is a formally inventive exploration of perceptions of death, punctuated by music and modern dance sequences  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia

Interview: Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia

"It was Aspromonte that inspired me: it is much more than a refuge of Mafia activity, which is what people usually know it for"

VENICE 2024: In the Italian director's feature debut, an archaeologist is searching for treasure in the rugged natural surroundings of the Calabrian mountain massif  

12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

Interview: Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

"I don't reveal the events in advance; the viewer is by my side, as if it were all happening at that very moment"

VENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia and arrived in Italy  

12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Florenc Papas’ coming-of-age drama film Luna Park

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Florenc Papas’ coming-of-age drama film Luna Park

Set amidst Albania’s civil unrest in 1997, the new Albanian-Italian-Greek-Croatian-Kosovar co-production follows a single mother and her son as they struggle to survive  

12/09/2024 | Production | Funding | Albania/Italy/Greece/Croatia/Kosovo

Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman • Directors of Vittoria

Interview: Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman • Directors of Vittoria

“We didn’t know anything about adoption, Jasmine took us inside this vast and complex world”

VENICE 2024: The directorial duo told us about the making of their second feature film, which reconnects with a character from their debut movie to explore a family’s dynamics  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Giulio Base in post with religious drama Judas’ Gospel, toplined by Rupert Everett, Paz Vega, John Savage and Abel Ferrara

Giulio Base in post with religious drama Judas’ Gospel, toplined by Rupert Everett, Paz Vega, John Savage and Abel Ferrara

The Turin-born helmer’s new feature, which takes an innovative approach to retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, is being sold by Minerva Pictures  

11/09/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/Poland

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

Interview: Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

"It's a journey that's born of something we all feel, of the uncertainty inherent in changing our surroundings"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about his new film, in which a young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

Interview: Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Japanese animation meets French and Italian co-production partners at the Venice Production Bridge

Japanese animation meets French and Italian co-production partners at the Venice Production Bridge

VENICE 2024: Japan and Europe are set to strengthen their collaborations, and the brand-new co-production treaty between Italy and Japan is perhaps the first achievement of many to come  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Venice Production Bridge

Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

Interview: Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

“I felt the camera was sometimes like a shield against reality”

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director explains how he came to make his response to the 7 October attack by Hamas, and shares a strong plea for the war’s cessation  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

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