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

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

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

Interview: Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation of oppression  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Happy Holidays

Review: Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti makes effective use of an ensemble cast in this portrait of contemporary family life in Israel, replete with its many intricacies  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Harvest

Review: Harvest

VENICE 2024: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s latest effort is a bizarre tale set in a remote village under the rule of a hateful master  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | 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

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

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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