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680 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2002. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Review: The Vanishing

Review: The Vanishing

Karim Moussaoui’s film follows a privileged young man in Algiers who starts to break at the seams, but its bland narrative and lack of stakes drag the story down  

10/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Filmdelights boards Kārlis Lesiņš’s documentary Nord Express

Filmdelights boards Kārlis Lesiņš’s documentary Nord Express

The helmer becomes a “citizen investigator”, going on the road to look into the flawed construction of a high-speed railway line connecting the Baltics to the rest of Europe  

04/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Latvia/Germany/Poland/Estonia/France

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

"This film is not only about Palestine, but about any place that has been occupied and any people subjected to oppression"

The Palestinian director talks about his feature built from archival images looted by the Israeli army that the filmmaker reworked to express the reality of oppression his people are experiencing  

28/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Rabia

Review: Rabia

Tremendously toplined by Megan Northam, Mareike Engelhardt’s first feature is a hard-hitting and far-sighted work about the grey zones of radicalisation  

26/11/2024 | Films | Reviews | France/Germany/Belgium

Review: Wishbone

Review: Wishbone

In her latest film, Greek director Penny Panayotopoulou uses realism and poetry to convey the condition of a family holding strong in a fragmented society, set against a backdrop of malpractice  

20/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Review: A Fidai Film

Review: A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari manipulates and reassembles archive footage from the Palestine Research Center, which was seized by Israel in 1982, to highlight its propagandistic use by the State of Israeli  

15/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Memory Hotel

Review: Memory Hotel

Heinrich Sabl's off-kilter animated effort, 25 years in the making, is a grim fairy tale of a young girl who grows up in servitude for decades in a rundown hotel  

05/11/2024 | DOK Leipzig 2024

Review: The Return of the Projectionist

Review: The Return of the Projectionist

Set in the mountains of Azerbaijan, Orkhan Aghazadeh’s feature debut is a visually lush, heartwarming contribution to the oeuvre of films celebrating cinephilia  

24/10/2024 | Cologne 2024

The best of German cinema to be showcased in Paris

The best of German cinema to be showcased in Paris

The 29th Paris German Film Festival is unspooling 9 – 13 October with a Panorama section comprising eight feature films and a focus on director of photography Judith Kaufmann  

08/10/2024 | Festivals | Awards | France/Germany

Ildikó Enyedi working on her new feature, Silent Friend

Ildikó Enyedi working on her new feature, Silent Friend

The Hungarian director has already shot her drama film, featuring three different stories and starring veteran Hong Kongese actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai  

23/09/2024 | Production | Funding | Germany/France/Hungary

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