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780 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Rusudan Glurjidze  • Director of The Antique

Interview: Rusudan Glurjidze • Director of The Antique

"We have more power than politicians: with our voices, we can deliver many messages"

VENICE 2024: The Georgian director talks about her film inspired by the illegal deportation of thousands of Georgians that took place in Russia in 2006  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Antique

Review: The Antique

VENICE 2024: The second feature by Rusudan Glurijdze portrays the encounter between two generations and two people, against the backdrop of the mass deportations of Georgians from Russia in 2006  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Interview: Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

"It was old hat, they reasoned, void of topical importance. Which all changed, of course, on 7 October"

The filmmaker tells us about the genesis of his project reconstituting the history of Israel and Palestine through Swedish TV footage, and his hopes for the film  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

Interview: Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

“At some point, given what is happening to the environment, we might all become refugees”

VENICE 2024: The Greek director outlines the mysterious syndrome affecting refugee children as well as other topics tackled in his film  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Arto Halonen’s eco-sci-fi feature After Us, the Flood, now in post-production

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Arto Halonen’s eco-sci-fi feature After Us, the Flood, now in post-production

Penned by Ossi Hakala, the Finnish-Latvian co-production is set in a post-climate-change world on the verge of destruction and sees a physicist sent back in time to save humankind  

30/08/2024 | Production | Funding | Finland/Latvia

Review: Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Review: Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

VENICE 2024: Göran Hugo Olsson’s doc is essentially a 200-minute showreel digging into the causes and effects of the political, military and societal crises involving the two countries  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Quiet Life

Review: Quiet Life

VENICE 2024: Alexandros Avranas’s latest effort tackles a highly sensitive topic – child resignation syndrome – but does so through overly slow pacing and flat acting  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Venice Giornate degli Autori entry The Antique

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clip for Venice Giornate degli Autori entry The Antique

The new film by Rusudan Glurjidze recounts the tragic measures taken against the Georgian people in St Petersburg in 2006  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary uses SVT’s extensive archive footage to zoom in on 30 years of history in the war-torn region  

28/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Finnish Film Affair explores transmedia, gaming and unconventional, “weird” storytelling

Finnish Film Affair explores transmedia, gaming and unconventional, “weird” storytelling

For the first time in the Nordics, the Helsinki-based event spotlights the intersection of filmmaking and game development while introducing the Finnish Weird pitch session  

21/08/2024 | Finnish Film Affair 2024

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