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135 articles available in total starting from 26/08/2002. Last article published on 24/11/2025.

Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

Interview: Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

“I wanted to make a war film where both perspectives, both sides were fully explored”

BERLINALE 2023: We met with the Italian director to discuss his debut fiction feature film toplined by Franz Rogowski  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: Disco Boy

Review: Disco Boy

BERLINALE 2023: Giacomo Abbruzzese breaks free from genres with an intense and highly promising first film covering Europe, Africa, war and animism, carried by the brilliant Franz Rogowski  

19/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Dana Nechushtan • Director of Piece of My Heart

Interview: Dana Nechushtan • Director of Piece of My Heart

"This story is ultimately about friendship between two women"

The Israeli-born Dutch director talks about her film, a psychologically mercilessly tense tale about two dancers who understand each other without words  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Review: Piece of My Heart

Review: Piece of My Heart

Friendship is tainted by jealousy – and way too much booze – in Dana Nechushtan's clunky ballerina melodrama  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Susanna Nicchiarelli • Director of Chiara

Interview: Susanna Nicchiarelli • Director of Chiara

“There was something about this medieval tale, with its fears, illnesses and isolation, that seemed to speak to the modern-day”

VENICE 2022: The Italian director chatted with us about her casting choices, her work on the vernacular within the film and her sources of inspiration  

10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Chiara

Review: Chiara

VENICE 2022: Susanna Nicchiarelli paints a credible portrait of a revolutionary saint, as a girl and a woman, which is free from rhetorical trappings  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

"I had to embrace the subject, and to show courage"

The French director discusses her very dark film noir with a very scary protagonist  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Interview: Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

"The film is in a way a tribute to these typical village characters"

In his latest film, awarded with the festival's Special Jury Prize, the Italian filmmaker explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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