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5759 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 25/08/2025.

Alejandro Amenábar’s adventure epic The Captive in the works

Alejandro Amenábar’s adventure epic The Captive in the works

Set to enter production in April, the film is based on the origin story of Miguel de Cervantes, and stars Julio Peña and Alessandro Borghi in the leading roles  

31/01/2024 | Production | Funding | Spain/Italy

The Bergamo Film Meeting welcomes Frederikke Aspöck, Lukas Moodysson and Metod Pevec

The Bergamo Film Meeting welcomes Frederikke Aspöck, Lukas Moodysson and Metod Pevec

The Europe, Now! section, dedicated to contemporary European auteur cinema, will focus on the works of the Danish, Swedish and Slovenian directors  

30/01/2024 | Bergamo 2024

The first clapperboard slams on Mrs Playmen, toplined by Carolina Crescentini

The first clapperboard slams on Mrs Playmen, toplined by Carolina Crescentini

The new Netflix series will tell the story of Adelina Tattilo, an editor on the most well-known Italian erotic magazine who fought against the bigotry plaguing Italy in the Sixties  

30/01/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy

Stepne wins the Trieste Film Festival

Stepne wins the Trieste Film Festival

Ukrainian director Maryna Vroda’s feature film scooped the award for Best Film while 1489 by Armenia’s Shoghakat Vardanyan bagged Best Documentary  

29/01/2024 | Trieste 2024 | Awards

Review: 8 Days in August

Review: 8 Days in August

Samuel Perriard’s second feature film homes in on a family wrestling with long-repressed internal tensions which explode during a holiday in southern Italy  

29/01/2024 | Solothurn 2024

Filming begins on Nottefonda with Francesco Di Leva

Filming begins on Nottefonda with Francesco Di Leva

The debut feature from Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, produced by Mad Entertainment with Rai Cinema, tells the story of a man looking for his wife’s murderer  

25/01/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy

Lenin’s Pawn and Strange Sea win at When East Meets West

Lenin’s Pawn and Strange Sea win at When East Meets West

The two documentaries, respectively by Dragoș Turea from Moldova and debuting Azeri filmmaker Lala Aliyeva, have snagged the major prizes at the Italian co-production forum  

25/01/2024 | Trieste 2024 | WEMW/Awards

Review: Dieci minuti

Review: Dieci minuti

Co-written with Francesca Archibugi, Maria Sole Tognazzi’s new movie takes a sensitive and understanding approach to tell the tale of a woman’s existential crisis and subsequent journey of rebirth  

24/01/2024 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Ludovica Fales • Director of Lala

Interview: Ludovica Fales • Director of Lala

“Romany youngsters are asking questions about how they’re represented, but this debate is totally ignored by the media”

The Italian director spoke to us about her documentary blending reality and near-reality, and homing in on a Romany girl’s fight to gain recognition for her identity  

24/01/2024 | Trieste 2024

Piero Messina's Another End selected in competition at the Berlinale

Piero Messina's Another End selected in competition at the Berlinale

The Italian director’s sophomore feature is a love story with an international cast including Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, and Olivia Williams  

23/01/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/UK

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