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

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

Interview: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

"The child is more radical than the radicals"

CANNES 2019: We met with the Dardenne brothers on the occasion of their 8th visit to the Cannes competition with yet another film, this time in the form of Young Ahmed, their 11th feature  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Young Ahmed

Review: Young Ahmed

CANNES 2019: The Dardenne brothers return to their core film values, painting a modest portrait of a child caught in the vortex of religious radicalisation  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

CANNES 2019: Céline Sciamma puts her name to a magnificent period drama on passionate love, art and the destiny of women, featuring the exceptional acting talent of Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: The Whistlers

Review: The Whistlers

CANNES 2019: In his playful new film, Corneliu Porumboiu starts with Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”, and then he rides and he rides – all the way to the Canary Islands  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Ladj Ly  • Director of Les Misérables

Interview: Ladj Ly • Director of Les Misérables

"People tend to tell our story in our name"

CANNES 2019: We have met up with French director Ladj Ly, whose debut feature Les Misérables has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Levan Akin  • Director of And Then We Danced

Interview: Levan Akin • Director of And Then We Danced

“When it takes some four years to make a film, it needs to mean something”

CANNES 2019: With And Then We Danced, Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin takes on his Eastern European roots with a vengeance  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

Interview: Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

"My films draw inspiration from the absence of boundaries"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Mati Diop talks to us about her first feature film Atlantics, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles  • Directors of Bacurau

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Directors of Bacurau

“We wanted to make a kick-ass western adventure”

CANNES 2019: Cineuropa met up with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, the directors of Bacurau, a film that defies any easy categorisation  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Ken Loach  • Director of Sorry We Missed You

Q&A: Ken Loach • Director of Sorry We Missed You

“Now, the worker assumes all the risk and has to exploit himself”

CANNES 2019: At the press conference for his Palme d’Or contender Sorry We Missed You, Brit Ken Loach unpicked his latest social-realist drama  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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