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140 articles available in total starting from 02/10/2002. Last article published on 04/06/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Cannes Critics' Week entry Baby

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Cannes Critics' Week entry Baby

The sophomore feature by Brazil's Marcelo Caetano follows a young man trying to rebuild his life after being released from a detention center  

13/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics' Week

Review: Until the Music Is Over

Review: Until the Music Is Over

Cristiane Oliveira centres on a community of Catholic Italian immigrants in the far south of Brazil, where her elderly protagonist rids herself of prejudice  

14/03/2024 | Bergamo 2024

Review: Shikun

Review: Shikun

BERLINALE 2024: Amos Gitai navigates the intricacies of modern Israeli society through a theatrically staged introspection reimagining Eugene Ionesco’s anti-totalitarian fable Rhinoceros  

27/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Berlinale Special

Review: Sleep With Your Eyes Open

Review: Sleep With Your Eyes Open

BERLINALE 2024: Nele Wohlatz’s transnational feature aligns form and content to create a meandering exploration of language and heritage within the Chinese diaspora of Brazil’s Recife  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters

Review: Cidade; Campo

Review: Cidade; Campo

BERLINALE 2024: Juliana Rojas’ newest film is a slow-burn diptych that examines the complex entanglement between city and countryside in contemporary Brazil  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters

Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

Interview: Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

“I want to talk about the human being in context, not about the context itself”

The Brazilian director breaks down his story of a migration process that takes his characters from Lebanon to Brazil  

07/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Formosa Beach

Review: Formosa Beach

Julia De Simone’s first feature inventively interrogates Portugal’s colonial history in Brazil through experimental fiction informed by a documentary background  

01/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Portrait of a Certain Orient

Review: Portrait of a Certain Orient

Marcelo Gomes tells the story of an escape from Lebanon to Brazil by way of a black and white drama interweaving passion, memory and desire  

31/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

Interview: Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

“This film really came from the heart”

The past is the present – and vice versa – in the second part of the Brazilian director’s trilogy  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Swimming Home

Review: Swimming Home

Modern dance, unexpected nudity and the trials of the privileged are all on display in Justin Anderson’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

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