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677 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2002. Last article published on 26/05/2025.

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

Review: Crocodile Tears

Review: Crocodile Tears

Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon’s first feature is an inventive and peculiar take on the love of a suffocating mother, which reveals itself as an undiagnosed form of madness  

11/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Horizonte

Review: Horizonte

A mother and her son, both ghosts, tread the path of redemption after a civil war marked by crimes and wrongful deaths in César Augusto Acevedo's sophomore feature  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Athina Rachel Tsangari  • Director of Harvest

Interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari • Director of Harvest

“Every part of the process was informing the script, as a way to slowly keep ploughing this ground”

VENICE 2024: The Greek director unpicks her long-awaited new feature, a period film that is deeply grounded in the present  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

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