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Competition / France


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

Review: Laila in Haifa

Review: Laila in Haifa

VENICE 2020: Israeli great Amos Gitai crafts a beautiful nocturnal roundelay in an unusual location: a hip bar with an equally Israeli and Palestinian clientele  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: New Order

Review: New Order

VENICE 2020: Michel Franco makes an audacious, unremitting and brutal critique of inequality and its relationship to violence  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: And Tomorrow The Entire World

Review: And Tomorrow The Entire World

VENICE 2020: Julia von Heinz mines her own past as an anti-fascist activist in this fictional drama asking whether the best way to fight violence is through retaliatory violence  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

“This film is more extreme because you don’t know where you are”

VENICE 2020: We talked to seemingly indefatigable documentary auteur Gianfranco Rosi about his competition entry Notturno  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Notturno

Review: Notturno

VENICE 2020: The most meticulous of cinematic artists, Gianfranco Rosi, takes an intricate, compassionate and poetic look at daily life along the Middle Eastern front line  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

Interview: Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

“I have a sort of faith in the glittering darkness of love”

VENICE 2020: French director Nicole Garcia decrypts Lovers, a beautifully crafted film noir in competition for the Golden Lion  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

VENICE 2020: There is no time to catch one’s breath in Jasmila Žbanić’s powerful film, closing in on a teacher-turned-translator for the UN in Srebrenica trying to find her way  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Lovers

Review: Lovers

VENICE 2020: Nicole Garcia signs an excellent film noir centred on a fatal love triangle and set against the backdrop of the attractive power of money in the modern world  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

Interview: Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

"Making this film was a long and intimate process, it reflects my relations to my family and my country"

We have interviewed Azerbaijani director Ru Hasanov, who won the award for Best Director at Sarajevo's Feature Competition for his strangely specific The Island Within  

21/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Review: The Island Within

Review: The Island Within

Azerbaijani director Ru Hasanov's second film is a strangely specific story of a special protagonist who puts himself into extraordinary circumstances  

17/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

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