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4544 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

Claire Burger  • Director of Foreign Language

Interview: Claire Burger • Director of Foreign Language

“I wanted to show beautiful things amongst the youth, even if the current moment is complicated”

The French director talks about her second solo feature film, a vivid and subtle portrait of today’s youth  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Noaz Deshe  • Director of Xoftex

Interview: Noaz Deshe • Director of Xoftex

"I wanted to document the progression of the mental state of stateless people in a refugee camp"

The director tells us more about his new film, in which he portrays refugees filming satirical sketches and preparing for a zombie horror flick while awaiting immigration interviews in a Greek camp  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Leila Albayaty  • Director of From Abdul to Leila

Interview: Leila Albayaty • Director of From Abdul to Leila

"My father’s singing is a utopian message vis-à-vis our history"

The filmmaker chatted with us about her documentary which is drawn and sung in the first person but which resonates in many ways  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Miguel Gomes’s Cannes hit Grand Tour sells big worldwide

Miguel Gomes’s Cannes hit Grand Tour sells big worldwide

The Match Factory has closed a raft of deals with key territories including Spain, Poland, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea and Australia  

05/07/2024 | Industry | Market | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China

Review: Nothing in Its Place

Review: Nothing in Its Place

Turkish director Burak Çevik’s fifth feature, set in 1978, presents a struggle between ideological factions in his country as universal, but fails to fully engage the viewer  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Paula Ďurinová  • Director of Lapilli

Interview: Paula Ďurinová • Director of Lapilli

“In the total darkness of a cave, where there is no way to escape to another reality, any question can be asked”

The director discusses her exploration of grief and memory, the blending of autofiction and documentary essay, and the interdisciplinary influences on her feature debut  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Review: Lapilli

Review: Lapilli

Paula Ďurinová intertwines personal grief with environmental contemplation, offering a meditative documentary essay that reflects on loss and resilience through images of geological formations  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Review: Xoftex

Review: Xoftex

Noaz Deshe makes tragic reality and surreal fantasies overlap in order to portray the frustrating situation at a Greek refugee camp  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

Interview: Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

“I wanted to make a kind of ‘arthouse feel-good movie’ with a happy ending”

The German actress-turned-director unpicks her approach to depicting the setting of the GDR and talks about the cast of her comedy film  

01/07/2024 | Filmfest München 2024

The Playmaker boards Irene von Alberti’s satirical thriller The Protected Men

The Playmaker boards Irene von Alberti’s satirical thriller The Protected Men

The picture is set in Germany, where a mysterious disease afflicting only men strikes, leading to a women-led government takeover  

28/06/2024 | Industry | Market | Germany

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