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

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

Review: Summer of 85

Review: Summer of 85

François Ozon revisits the romantic passions of adolescence with the accuracy and great rawness of emotion that are characteristic of his mature and masterful filmmaking approach  

13/07/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Digger

Review: Digger

BERLINALE 2020: The first feature by Greek director Georgis Grigorakis is the story of a troubled father-son relationship set against a topical environmental backdrop  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Rithy Panh  • Director of Irradiated

Interview: Rithy Panh • Director of Irradiated

“The truth has died because everything is going so fast; all that remains is lies”

BERLINALE 2020: Cambodia’s Rithy Panh chatted with us to break down his Berlin competition film Irradiated  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Christian Petzold  • Director of Undine

Interview: Christian Petzold • Director of Undine

“Undine exists only through men, and that is a horrible curse”

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with Christian Petzold, the director of Undine, shown in the competition of this year's Berlinale  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

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