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840 articles available in total starting from 31/05/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Our School: Portrait of a lost generation

Presented as a special screening at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), after screening at Tribeca in April, the documentary Our School certainly hit close to home. Set in the...  

06/06/2011 | Films | Romania

Contemporary art and “arrangiarsi” in Senza arte né parte

What happens when an unemployed blue-collar man discovers that a bottle of whiskey placed in a shoe is worth hundreds of thousands of euros? The answer comes from director/artist Giovanni...  

03/05/2011 | Films | Italy

Family as an Archipelago in Hogg’s understated film

Following in the footsteps of her debut film Unrelated (2007), British director Joanna Hogg crafts another subtle, unsettling family-on-vacation story. While her first feature took place in...  

27/04/2011 | Films | UK

Balibar connects with Ellen, but not audiences, in Marais’ latest film

The second feature by South African-born Pia Marais, At Ellen’s Age, shared the main prize at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz, following in the footsteps of her debut film The...  

20/04/2011 | Films | Germany

Moretti’s Pope suffers from stress

In a Sistine Chapel accidentally left in the dark, the cardinals convened to elect the new Pope trip and sigh nervously. While outside, in Piazza San Pietro, the faithful with candles in hand and...  

14/04/2011 | Films | Italy

Argentero and Cortellesi say no to favouritism

Italian comedies are getting more and more topical. Following Massimiliano Bruno’s Nessuno mi può giudicare (“No One Can Judge Me”), on a woman who becomes an escort to support her family...  

06/04/2011 | Films | Italy

Vandeweerd’s Lost Land to screen at Visions du Réel

The Visions Du Reel Film Festival, known for its sharp and relevant programming of documentary films, will run this year from April 7-13 in Nyon, Switzerland. In the past few years, it has...  

04/04/2011 | Films | Belgium

Hit satirical sitcom Boris jumps to the big screen

Lousy neurotic actresses, an Oscar winner who loses his statuette in a poker game, screenwriters who don’t know how to conjugate verbs, the head of an important broadcaster who is “demoted” to...  

29/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Terzani recounts his life in The End Is My Beginning

A man on his deathbed recounts his life and experiences to his son in what should be a film teeming with flashbacks, seeing as how the man is Tiziano Terzani and the theatre of his adventures are...  

25/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Geyrhalter captures European zeitgeist in Abendland

Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Abendland had its world premiere at the opening of the Diagonale, the Festival of Austrian Film in Graz (March 22-27). The fly-on-the-wall documentary...  

25/03/2011 | Films | Austria

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