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2288 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 08/07/2025.

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

Interview: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

"This film was made thanks to the help of our friends, and our ambition is to be the voice of young people in Georgia"

The director and his lead actress and co-writer break down their new film, which has just screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Sophie Linnenbaum • Director of The Ordinaries

Interview: Sophie Linnenbaum • Director of The Ordinaries

"Only by consciously turning to and questioning these mechanisms of narratives can we become storytellers ourselves"

The director unpicks her movie, and how she lets the outside discourse of identity, social caste and media representation form a meta-world within the film  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: America

Review: America

In his second feature, Israeli director Ofir Raul Grazier crafts another psychologically complex, thought-provoking story about relationships, with a strong sensual throughline  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: Silence 6-9

Review: Silence 6-9

Christos Passalis’ feature-length fiction debut is a worthy addition to the collection of Greek Weird Wave films  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: A Room of My Own

Review: A Room of My Own

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze’s film proves that the biggest drama always happens in the smallest of places  

06/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

The 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival presents itself as “a new beginning”

The 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival presents itself as “a new beginning”

Two debut films and a large number of European features by young directors and well-known names will be vying for the Golden Leopard at the 75th Locarno Film Festival  

06/07/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition/Out of Competition

Review: The Ordinaries

Review: The Ordinaries

In her feature debut, Sophie Linnenbaum explores the societal divide through the lens of a movie set  

06/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Anna Kazejak • Director of Fucking Bornholm

Interview: Anna Kazejak • Director of Fucking Bornholm

“I have never received so many messages after any of my other films”

The Polish helmer discusses why her new feature is prompting so much feedback from her audience, and why film is her favourite art form  

05/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: The Word

Review: The Word

Beata Parkanová makes a sincere but modest attempt to tell the story of life under communism in the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia  

05/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: Fucking Bornholm

Review: Fucking Bornholm

Anna Kazejak’s feature is another story about people dealing with mid-life crises, but it’s evil and cruel enough to make it a compelling, brand-new tale  

04/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

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