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

Antonietta De Lillo  • Director of The Eye of the Hen

Interview: Antonietta De Lillo • Director of The Eye of the Hen

"This story had to be told because it concerns everyone"

VENICE 2024: The Italian helmer tells her own story, that of a highly respected director who is relegated to the sidelines of the film industry following a lengthy legal battle  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giovanni Dota  • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward

Interview: Giovanni Dota • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward

"A bet that's born of boredom and also a little bit out of spite"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks to us about his second feature, set entirely in a Naples hospital where, one night, two nurses bet on whether a patient will live or die  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Monica Stambrini • Director of Hold on Miss! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited

Interview: Monica Stambrini • Director of Hold on Miss! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited

"When success comes for an artist at that age, it's fascinating"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about the documentary she has dedicated to the ninety-something protagonist's extraordinary journey as a woman and an artist  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

New and old collide in the shorts in competition at Venice

New and old collide in the shorts in competition at Venice

VENICE 2024: The allure of the past and the shock of the new create conflict in many of the titles vying for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film at this year’s edition  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

Interview: Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation of oppression  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

Interview: Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

“My protagonist becomes a free woman out of necessity”

VENICE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about motherhood, documentaries, fiction and the female outlook, and about Ermanno Olmi  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi • Directors of Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

Interview: Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi • Directors of Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

“It is so difficult to distribute documentaries that, at the end of the day, their length doesn’t make much difference”

VENICE 2024: Cineuropa talked with the duo of Italian directors who told us how their film came to be, what’s hidden behind its title, and what unites the three acts that compose it  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Happy Holidays

Review: Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti makes effective use of an ensemble cast in this portrait of contemporary family life in Israel, replete with its many intricacies  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Queer

Review: Queer

VENICE 2024: Daniel Craig has so much fun in Luca Guadagnino’s odd tale of sex, drugs and exotic animals  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

Review: Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

VENICE 2024: The poetic feature by the Italian directing duo of Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi transports us into the heart of things, where the human eye hardly ever lingers  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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