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91 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 15/10/2025.

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

Interview: Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in the faces of strangers  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

Interview: Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Sidonie in Japan

Review: Sidonie in Japan

VENICE 2023: Following in the wake of Isabelle Huppert, Élise Girard imposes her own trademark aerial cinematography, travelling in Japan and exploring the contours and the echoes of reality  

01/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Arami Ullón prepares her third feature film, which will take place in Japan

Arami Ullón prepares her third feature film, which will take place in Japan

After setting her first two feature films in Paraguay, the director explores a very particular mourning practice, that of the “wind phone”  

01/06/2023 | Switzerland/Paraguay/Japan

Review: Perfect Days

Review: Perfect Days

CANNES 2023: Wim Wenders’ fiction film at the festival is a delicate and slyly melancholic ode to the search for happiness  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Aktan Arym Kubat • Director of This Is What I Remember

Interview: Aktan Arym Kubat • Director of This Is What I Remember

“Garbage is a consequence of human activity and originates in the mind”

The Kyrgyz helmer provides insights into the local context around his film and explains key metaphors that accompany its message  

28/04/2023 | goEast 2023

At Cartoon Next, Bartosz Sztybor talks about the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and working with US writers and Japanese studios

At Cartoon Next, Bartosz Sztybor talks about the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and working with US writers and Japanese studios

The CD Projekt Red representative shared the joys and the pains of developing the franchise as well as the lessons learnt by working with Japan’s Studio Trigger  

19/04/2023 | Cartoon 2023 | Cartoon Next

Miguel Gomes’ new feature Grand Tour in production in Italy

Miguel Gomes’ new feature Grand Tour in production in Italy

Set in the late 1910s, the Portuguese filmmaker’s new endeavour stars Gonçalo Waddington and Crista Alfaiate in the leading roles  

15/03/2023 | Production | Funding | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/China/Japan

Nicolas Philibert • Director of On The Adamant

Interview: Nicolas Philibert • Director of On The Adamant

"The film aims to change the image and representations we often associate with 'madness'"

BERLINALE 2023: The famous French documentary-maker discusses his work centred on The Adamant, a very unique day hospital in a boat moored on a quay in Paris  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: On the Adamant

Review: On the Adamant

BERLINALE 2023: Nicolas Philibert dismantles prejudice with a brilliant, tender and exceptionally authentic documentary about disorders of the mind  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

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