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

Review: Les Misérables

Review: Les Misérables

CANNES 2019: With his first fiction feature, Ladj Ly paints an intense and impactful portrait of the relations between police and young people in the Paris suburbs  

16/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Two new titles enter the Cannes competition

Two new titles enter the Cannes competition

Abdellatif Kechiche and Quentin Tarantino have entered the hunt for the Palme d’Or; Lorenzo Mattotti is in Un Certain Regard, while Gael García Bernal and Patricio Guzmán get Special Screenings  

02/05/2019 | Cannes 2019

A slew of masters and new faces to vie for the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or

A slew of masters and new faces to vie for the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or

8 filmmakers are locking horns in the Cannes competition for the first time, flanked by 9 directors who have already won awards on the Croisette; suspense still surrounds Tarantino and Kechiche  

18/04/2019 | Cannes 2019

Cannes to be opened by The Dead Don’t Die

Cannes to be opened by The Dead Don’t Die

The film by US director Jim Jarmusch will raise the curtain on the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May) and will be screened in competition  

10/04/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Opening/Competition

Fatih Akin • Director of The Golden Glove

Interview: Fatih Akin • Director of The Golden Glove

"They say this film is against women, but it's people who haven't seen the film saying that"

BERLIN 2019: Fatih Akin talks to us about his new film The Golden Glove, one of the most heinous and gory movies that have ever played in competition at the Berlinale  

20/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

Interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

"The character of Petrunya develops into a force of change"

BERLIN 2019: We interviewed Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska, who presented her new film God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya in competition at the Berlinale  

18/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

Review: Synonyms

Review: Synonyms

BERLIN 2019: Nadav Lapid offers an indescribable yet totally brilliant variation on the theme of "An Israeli in Paris"  

15/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

Nadav Lapid  • Director of Synonyms

Interview: Nadav Lapid • Director of Synonyms

"My overarching goal was to capture some sort of truth in relation to certain moments"

BERLIN 2019: We met up with the Israeli director Nadav Lapid to talk about Synonyms, in competition at the 69th Berlin Film Festival  

15/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

François Ozon  • Director of By the Grace of God

Q&A: François Ozon • Director of By the Grace of God

"The stakes were much higher with this film"

BERLIN 2019: François Ozon, in competition at Berlin for the fifth time running with By the Grace of God, talks to Cineuropa about his latest film, which is based on a very important true story  

11/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

Review: God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

Review: God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

BERLIN 2019: Macedonian filmmaker Teona Mitevska returns to the Berlinale with a film that opposes tradition and patriarchy in an accomplished, punky manner  

11/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

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