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Competition / France


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

Review: Isadora’s Children

Review: Isadora’s Children

France’s Damien Manivel brings together his two great passions, film and dance, to create an exacting and poignant choreographic film  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Technoboss

Review: Technoboss

João Nicolau’s latest film stars first-timer Miguel Lobo Antunes, in a comic, refreshing study of ageing (and life)  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: A Girl Missing

Review: A Girl Missing

With his new film Kôji Fukada once again questions the seeming stability of Japanese society  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Twelve Thousand

Review: Twelve Thousand

With determination and a surprising dose of good humour and poetry, Nadège Trebal’s film examines the vicissitudes of two soul mates in pursuit of their own kind of happiness  

09/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: The Fever

Review: The Fever

Hovering between dream and reality, this film by director Maya Da-Rin takes us by the hand and guides us through the complex universe of Brazil’s indigenous Desana community  

08/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Nadège Trebal's Twelve Thousand

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Nadège Trebal's Twelve Thousand

The new film by the French filmmaker is set to world-premiere in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival  

01/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Elia Suleiman  • Director of It Must Be Heaven

Interview: Elia Suleiman • Director of It Must Be Heaven

“The class and economic gap, migration, anxiety and violence – that’s what this film is about, basically”

CANNES 2019: We sat down with Palestinian director Elia Suleiman to delve deeper into his Palme d’Or contender It Must Be Heaven  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Justine Triet  • Director of Sibyl

Interview: Justine Triet • Director of Sibyl

“I like to laugh at dark, tragic things which also sometimes happen in life”

CANNES 2019: We sat down with French helmer Justine Triet to find out more about her competition title, the dramedy Sibyl  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: It Must Be Heaven

Review: It Must Be Heaven

CANNES 2019: Elia Suleiman is in competition with a hilarious, absurdist take on what it means to be a Palestinian  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Oh Mercy!

Interview: Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Oh Mercy!

"Looking beyond this socially oppressive behaviour, you find human souls"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin talks to us about Oh Mercy!, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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