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

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

Céline Sciamma • Director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Interview: Céline Sciamma • Director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

“I’ve spent my life loving films that sometimes hated me”

CANNES 2019: We spoke to Céline Sciamma, who, in her striking new feature Portrait of a Lady on Fire, reunites with Adèle Haenel after Water Lilies and the short Pauline  

24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Sibyl

Review: Sibyl

CANNES 2019: Justine Triet’s new film is rich, playful and cruel, erecting themes and deceitful mirrors around the excellent Virginie Efira  

24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Marco Bellocchio  • Director of The Traitor

Q&A: Marco Bellocchio • Director of The Traitor

"Buscetta is no hero"

CANNES 2019: Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio unpicks his new movie The Traitor, which was unveiled to much applause in competition at Cannes  

24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo

Review: Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo

CANNES 2019: The second part of Abdellatif Kechiche’s trilogy is a fascinating, impressive, but extreme film chronicling a steamy night in a nightclub  

24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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