email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Films


840 articles available in total starting from 31/05/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Draquila: Bitter laughter headed to Cannes

“I’ve spent €200m in lawyers and judges,” says Silvio Berlusconi on TV, and it’s his first slip, the first comic gem that draws laughs in Draquila – L’Italia Che Trema (the title of which was...  

04/05/2010 | Films | Italy

10 to 11: Preserving history in the modern world

Turkish director Pelin Esmer’s second feature film, 10 to 11, deals with preserving history as opposed to chasing material goods and an improved quality of life in today’s Turkey. Mithat (Mithat...  

28/04/2010 | Films | Turkey/France/Germany

From comedy to melodrama in House of Boys

“My kingdom for a comedy”, invoked audiences of the Turin GLBT Festival, surrounded by all kinds of dramas. At first, House of Boys, the feature debut by Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Schlim, seemed it...  

26/04/2010 | Films | Luxembourg

Physics of Water released six years after completion

"I acted in Felice Farina’s The Physics of Water in 2004, and subsequently saw all the problems it had making it to the screen, despite having received public funding and the fact that many...  

23/04/2010 | Films | Italy

Family Tree and history at Turin’s GLBT Fest

“I don’t belong to this place”, says Frederick, returning to visit (though we only see him enter, in a long shot of commendable dryness) the concentration camp in which he had been imprisoned. For...  

21/04/2010 | Films | France

Bon Appetit wins rave reviews at Malaga

The first film to have garnered the most critical acclaim at the 13th Malaga Spanish Film Festival is a one that, owing to its genre (romantic comedy), seemed hardly a festival title. However,...  

21/04/2010 | Films | Spain

Can Go Through Skin penetrates mental anguish

Marieke writes “vendetta” in her diary. Her boyfriend has left her and she is in the throes of an emotional storm. But the worse it yet to come, when the pizza delivery boy assaults her, even...  

15/04/2010 | Films | Netherlands

Desperados on the Block: Lonely foreigners in Munich

Desperados on the Block is the revealing title of the debut film by 31-year-old, Polish-born Tomasz Emil Rudzik (who moved to Germany at the age of eight) in competition at the Lecce Festival of...  

14/04/2010 | Films | Germany

Me Too, or the normalcy of being different

Daniel is 34, lives in Seville, holds a university degree, lands a government job working with handicapped people – and has Downs Syndrome. He falls in love with his co-worker Laura, a woman from...  

14/04/2010 | Films | Spain

Papaleo’s directorial debut Basilicata Coast to Coast a road movie musical

Take a handful of musicians on a coast-to-coast walking trip; a bored, small-town journalist forced to follow them; a beautiful, rarely seen landscape; a horse and cart; and a series of strange...  

07/04/2010 | Films | Italy

Privacy Policy