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Competition / France


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

Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

Interview: Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

"We’re not looking at a person, we’re with them"

BERLINALE 2025: The French director unpicks her new movie, a magnetic and organic portrait born out of a very particular working approach with students from the Conservatoire de Paris  

16/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: Ari

Review: Ari

BERLINALE 2025: Blending instinct, simplicity and suggestion and showing remarkable sensitivity, Léonor Serraille depicts the poignant meanderings of a gentle man living in our rough epoch  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Coralie Fargeat  • Director of The Substance

Interview: Coralie Fargeat • Director of The Substance

"I had to preserve the film from everyone who wanted to make it less provocative and extreme... I wanted it to be more"

The helmer of this year's sensation talked to us about her film, now one of the favourites in the international awards season, and the process she went through to make it  

09/01 | European Film Awards 2024

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

Interview: Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

“Each time, you gotta do your homework”

The Academy Award-winning director talks about the wide range of his work and gives us an insight into the making of his animated film  

19/11/2024 | /France/Belgium

Review: Out of Control

Review: Out of Control

A family idyll is put to the test and threatened by the reappearance of the husband’s old flame in Anne Le Ny’s newest domestic thriller  

18/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

Interview: Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath

“What would I do if I didn’t make movies?”

At 91, the cherished Greek-French director still has an active career and has just picked up the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award  

12/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

Interview: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Last Breath

Review: Last Breath

Costa Gavras delivers an ultimately uplifting film falling halfway between pedagogical tragicomedy and rugged yet truthful philosophical tale on the eminently delicate subject of death  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: The Wailing

Review: The Wailing

Pedro Martín-Calero and Isabel Peña present a powerful and disturbing film that talks about the effects of violence against women via a contemporary feminist horror story  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Serpent’s Path

Review: Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa readapts his 1990s film Serpent’s Path, setting it in contemporary France, for an unhinged thriller that investigates the pointless obtuseness of evil  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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