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609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Xavier Beauvois  • Director of Drift Away

Interview: Xavier Beauvois • Director of Drift Away

"Our house is on fire – our priority should be to save it"

BERLINALE 2021: In his usual punchy fashion, the French director sheds light on his sensitive fiction film which treads the line between social realism and inner emotion  

03/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

Review: Natural Light

Review: Natural Light

BERLINALE 2021: In his competition-premiered first fiction feature, Hungarian director Dénes Nagy explores the human condition in a story set during World War II  

03/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

Review: Drift Away

Review: Drift Away

BERLINALE 2021: Xavier Beauvois signs his name to an intimate story which also sounds a social alarm in an artfully pared-down film bursting with heart about a gendarme on the Normandy coast  

02/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

Review: Moon, 66 Questions

Review: Moon, 66 Questions

BERLINALE 2021: Greek writer-director Jacqueline Lentzou makes a unique film on a tough subject through a playful approach, benefiting from Oscar-worthy performances by the two leads  

01/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Encounters

Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige  • Directors of Memory Box

Interview: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige • Directors of Memory Box

“Our character feels her mother's secrets – kids can do that”

BERLINALE 2021: Shown in the Golden Bear competition, this film puts paid to Cher's claim that you can't turn back time  

01/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

Review: Memory Box

Review: Memory Box

BERLINALE 2021: In Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's sweet but – oh, the irony – hardly memorable film, a girl gets to meet her teenage mother, but without any Marty McFly-like complications  

01/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Competition

Review: Beasts

Review: Beasts

Recipient of a 2020 Cannes label and carried by excellent performances, Naël Marandin’s accomplished second feature is a story of domination among the economic challenges of animal farming  

20/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Dea Kulumbegashvili  • Director of Beginning

Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili • Director of Beginning

“In Georgia, as a woman, you're trained to accept that you don't really matter”

We spoke to Dea Kulumbegashvili about her debut film, Beginning, which swept the board at San Sebastián, winning the Golden Shell, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress  

28/09/2020 | San Sebastián 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

Review: Beginning

Review: Beginning

In her mesmerising Georgia-set debut film, Dea Kulumbegashvili questions the norms of society that have been informed by Abrahamic religions  

25/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

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