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

Review: The Whistlers

Review: The Whistlers

CANNES 2019: In his playful new film, Corneliu Porumboiu starts with Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”, and then he rides and he rides – all the way to the Canary Islands  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Ladj Ly  • Director of Les Misérables

Interview: Ladj Ly • Director of Les Misérables

"People tend to tell our story in our name"

CANNES 2019: We have met up with French director Ladj Ly, whose debut feature Les Misérables has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Levan Akin  • Director of And Then We Danced

Interview: Levan Akin • Director of And Then We Danced

“When it takes some four years to make a film, it needs to mean something”

CANNES 2019: With And Then We Danced, Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin takes on his Eastern European roots with a vengeance  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

Interview: Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

"My films draw inspiration from the absence of boundaries"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Mati Diop talks to us about her first feature film Atlantics, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles  • Directors of Bacurau

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Directors of Bacurau

“We wanted to make a kick-ass western adventure”

CANNES 2019: Cineuropa met up with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, the directors of Bacurau, a film that defies any easy categorisation  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Ken Loach  • Director of Sorry We Missed You

Q&A: Ken Loach • Director of Sorry We Missed You

“Now, the worker assumes all the risk and has to exploit himself”

CANNES 2019: At the press conference for his Palme d’Or contender Sorry We Missed You, Brit Ken Loach unpicked his latest social-realist drama  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Sorry We Missed You

Review: Sorry We Missed You

CANNES 2019: Two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach tackles the stresses families are put under as a result of the gig economy and the outsourcing of work  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: And Then We Danced

Review: And Then We Danced

CANNES 2019: Through the character of a Georgian dancer in love for the first time, and with a fellow pupil, Levan Akin opens up a window onto a traditional world that’s both harsh and beautiful  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Atlantics

Review: Atlantics

CANNES 2019: Mati Diop’s first feature film mixes realism and fantasy to weave an intriguing and nebulous moral tale about immigration, love and death  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Bacurau

Review: Bacurau

CANNES 2019: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new work bobs and weaves with gusto and humour, playing with the traditions of the Western, Brazilian cinema and anti-imperialist resistance  

16/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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