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49 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 25/09/2024.

Review: Tommy Guns

Review: Tommy Guns

The past turns into the present and the present into the past in Carlos Conceição's interesting take on one country’s troubled legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Albert Serra  • Director of Pacifiction

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Pacifiction

“The character of De Roller reminded me most of Donald Trump!”

CANNES 2022: We spoke with the Catalan director, flying high off the fine reception for his woozy, hypnotic Cannes competition debut  

28/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Review: Pacifiction

Review: Pacifiction

CANNES 2022: Catalan maverick Albert Serra comes up with a sprawling, glittering essay on neo-colonialism in French Polynesia  

27/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Review: Submission

Review: Submission

Iolanda Laranjeiro makes an impact in Leonardo Antonio's story about rape within marriage, which drifts into melodrama  

27/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Leonardo Antonio  • Director of Submission

Interview: Leonardo Antonio • Director of Submission

"90% of the psychiatry hospital wing would be empty if we could address the problem of rape and prostitution in marriage"

Portugal's Leonardo Antonio discusses his Black Nights-screened film Submission, about a woman who files a court case against her own husband for rape  

26/11/2020 | Black Nights 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

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

Review: Patrick

Review: Patrick

As evocative as it is obtuse, the debut film from Gonçalo Waddington aims to give voice to the unspeakable in this story of a child abductee who, years later, finally finds his way home  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Gonçalo Waddington  • Director of Patrick

Interview: Gonçalo Waddington • Director of Patrick

“What is absent is usually present because of that very absence”

We met up with Portuguese actor-turned-director Gonçalo Waddington, who is competing for San Sebastián’s Golden Shell with his first feature, Patrick  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Tiago Guedes  • Director of The Domain

Interview: Tiago Guedes • Director of The Domain

The Domain is the story of a man who tries to keep his legacy intact”

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa braved the rain to meet with Portuguese filmmaker Tiago Guedes, who is presenting his new movie, The Domain, at Venice and soon at Toronto  

07/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

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