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142 articles available in total starting from 02/10/2002. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

Interview: Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

“This film really came from the heart”

The past is the present – and vice versa – in the second part of the Brazilian director’s trilogy  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Swimming Home

Review: Swimming Home

Modern dance, unexpected nudity and the trials of the privileged are all on display in Justin Anderson’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché  • Directors of Puan

Interview: Benjamín Naishtat and María Alché • Directors of Puan

“Comedy is an excellent genre for tackling heavy subjects"

The Argentinean filmmakers have joined lives and forces to create the philosophical comedy starring Marcelo Subiotto and Leonardo Sbaraglia  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastian 2023 | Competition

Review: Puan

Review: Puan

Argentina’s María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat present a tragicomedy with political overtones about the meaning and loss of one’s ideals  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: Toll

Review: Toll

A distraught mother tries to steer her teenage son back towards heterosexuality in a fierce and sophisticatedly realist film directed by Carolina Markowicz  

15/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Centrepiece

Review: Heartless

Review: Heartless

VENICE 2023: Nara Normande and Tião capture the sensuality and uncertainty of the end of adolescence in a beguiling first feature film set across the beaches of Northeast Brazil  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: The Human Surge 3

Review: The Human Surge 3

Argentinian director Eduardo Williams’ second feature, whose title is a wink at the notion of chronology, is a dazzling and curious piece of experimental filmmaking  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Eroticism, a recurring element in the Brazilian director’s filmography, serves as the backdrop for his eighth fiction feature  

09/08/2023 | Production | Funding | Brazil/Germany/France/UK

Rodrigo Moreno  • Director of The Delinquents

Interview: Rodrigo Moreno • Director of The Delinquents

"I had a totally free spirit in making this film"

CANNES 2023: The Argentinian director unpicks his new film, which follows two bank employees that question the routine life they carry out and decide to do something about it  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Lillah Halla  • Director of Power Alley

Interview: Lillah Halla • Director of Power Alley

"This film is not only a portrait of intolerance"

CANNES 2023: The Brazilian filmmaker discusses her first feature, centred on a promising volleyball player who is faced with an unwanted pregnancy  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week

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