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11019 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Brazilian director Sacha Amaral’s debut feature is a vibrant portrait of a young man who desires nothing and everything at the same time  

27/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

Interview: Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”

The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for the future  

27/11/2024 | 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: I, the Song

Review: I, the Song

In Dechen Roder’s slow yet persistent sophomore feature, one woman's search to clear her name becomes an existential quest to discover the truth behind her doppelgänger’s disappearance  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: Writing Hawa

Review: Writing Hawa

Najiba and Rasul Noori leverage their own subjectivity to create a tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

The Gan Foundation throws its weight behind La Gradiva

The Gan Foundation throws its weight behind La Gradiva

Marine Atlan’s project is just one of the 2024 works selected for support, which also include those by Maïté Sonnet, Martin Jauvat, Hu Wei, and the duo Marie Amachoukeli and Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka  

26/11/2024 | Production | Funding | France

Review: The Bridge

Review: The Bridge

Walid Mattar's modest yet lovely comedy is a cautionary tale about getting what you wish for  

26/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Review: Moor

Review: Moor

Adilkhan Yerzhanov heads to an urban setting for the first time to tell the story of a “Kazakh Rambo” on a mission to save his brother’s wife and child from the mafia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

Interview: Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

"What can we do in this mean world, with all these issues of copying, recording private things, secret songs?"

One of the first female directors from Bhutan discusses her second feature, a tale of Buddhist karma, doppelgangers and melancholic Dzongkha songs  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

The Belfort Entrevues Film Festival crowns Softshell its champion

The Belfort Entrevues Film Festival crowns Softshell its champion

The first film by US director Jinho Myung wins the Grand Prize, while Trans Memoria and We Are Inside also steal focus on the winners’ list  

25/11/2024 | Festivals | Awards | France

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