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2617 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 21/09/2026.

Cédric Kahn • Director of A Place to Heal

Interview: Cédric Kahn • Director of A Place to Heal

"I wanted to make a visceral, joyful film about a terrible subject"

VENICE 2026: The French filmmaker explains why he decided to tackle young people's mental health and how he infused documentary material with fiction  

05/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Werner Herzog • Director of Bucking Fastard

Interview: Werner Herzog • Director of Bucking Fastard

“The film is unique in its form of narration – it has the logic of a dream”

VENICE 2026: The legendary German director tells us about his return to fiction filmmaking, his collaboration with Rooney and Kate Mara, and the movie’s dedication to David Lynch  

05/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: A Place to Heal

Review: A Place to Heal

VENICE 2026: Cédric Kahn brilliantly stages a highly dynamic and lively ensemble film set at the heart of a child and adolescent psychiatry unit  

04/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: Wild Horse Nine

Review: Wild Horse Nine

VENICE 2026: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell star in another classic Martin McDonagh tragicomedy, this time with larger helpings of geopolitical paranoia  

03/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: Bucking Fastard

Review: Bucking Fastard

VENICE 2026: Werner Herzog's latest sees Ireland as the setting for an absurd fable on identity, inspired by the extraordinary real-life Chaplin twins, from York  

03/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: Ink

Review: Ink

VENICE 2026: Danny Boyle tells the salacious story of the UK’s notorious The Sun tabloid, with Jack O’Connell as the first editor under Rupert Murdoch’s leadership  

02/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Zvonimir Jurić • Director of Small Things

Interview: Zvonimir Jurić • Director of Small Things

"I like characters who have a radical form of empathy and who think about the bigger picture"

The Croatian helmer breaks down his intimate drama film, a chamber piece set over one winter weekend on a Croatian island  

25/08 | Sarajevo 2026 | Competition

Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with You

Interview: Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with You

"I wanted to explore how much we are willing to do just to have someone and to relate to someone"

We caught up with the Slovenian director to talk about her film, which stars Anuša Kodelja and Klara Kuk as two young women, each weird in her own way  

25/08 | Sarajevo 2026 | Competition

Fatih Akin to open San Sebastián with Ghost Song

Fatih Akin to open San Sebastián with Ghost Song

The German director’s new film will vie for the Golden Shell, while Le Faux Soir by Belgium's Michaël R Roskam will close the festival out of competition  

24/08 | San Sebastián 2026

Venice welcomes 21 titles in the running for the Golden Lion

Venice welcomes 21 titles in the running for the Golden Lion

The themes impacting the modern-day world are mirrored in the selected films, featuring comebacks by directors such as Nanni Moretti, Werner Herzog and Lee Chang-dong, alongside new talents  

24/08 | Venice 2026

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