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

Review: Beasts

Review: Beasts

Recipient of a 2020 Cannes label and carried by excellent performances, Naël Marandin’s accomplished second feature is a story of domination among the economic challenges of animal farming  

20/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Dea Kulumbegashvili  • Director of Beginning

Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili • Director of Beginning

“In Georgia, as a woman, you're trained to accept that you don't really matter”

We spoke to Dea Kulumbegashvili about her debut film, Beginning, which swept the board at San Sebastián, winning the Golden Shell, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress  

28/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: In the Dusk

Review: In the Dusk

Sharunas Bartas competes for San Sebastián's Golden Shell with this tale of a Lithuanian partisan movement set in the winter of 1948  

25/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Beginning

Review: Beginning

In her mesmerising Georgia-set debut film, Dea Kulumbegashvili questions the norms of society that have been informed by Abrahamic religions  

25/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Sharunas Bartas • Director of In the Dusk

Interview: Sharunas Bartas • Director of In the Dusk

“This partisan movement is a very important story for the memory of our nation”

Cineuropa met up with Sharunas Bartas at San Sebastián to talk about In the Dusk, Soviet history, family, resistance and why having the correct breed of sheep is necessary for period authenticity  

23/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion

Interview: Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion

"The audience needed to understand why this woman falls in love with this man"

Danielle Arbid unscrambles Simple Passion, an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, awarded Cannes’ Official Selection label and unveiled in competition in San Sebastian  

22/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Akelarre

Review: Akelarre

In this luminous period film, Argentinian director Pablo Agüero revives the story of a group of women who fell victim to a witch-hunt fuelled by misogyny and the persecution of freedom  

21/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Simple Passion

Review: Simple Passion

In her highly accomplished adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, Danielle Arbid delves right to the very heart of an irrepressible and incandescent love which ends up driving a woman to distraction  

21/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Pablo Agüero • Director of Akelarre

Interview: Pablo Agüero • Director of Akelarre

"I steered clear of period-film clichés"

Pablo Agüero talks to us about his new film, Akelarre, the chronicle of a witch hunt that took place centuries ago, but the repercussions of which can still be clearly felt today  

18/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

Interview: Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

“I am my own research – I experienced so much of this myself”

VENICE 2020: We sat down with Julia von Heinz to get the low-down on her competition entry And Tomorrow the Entire World  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

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