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557 articles available in total starting from 06/03/2003. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

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

Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

Interview: Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

“My protagonist becomes a free woman out of necessity”

VENICE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about motherhood, documentaries, fiction and the female outlook, and about Ermanno Olmi  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

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: Vermiglio

Review: Vermiglio

VENICE 2024: Maura Delpero gets back to exploring motherhood in a film set at the end of the Second World War, which is visually and mentally stimulating  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

Interview: Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

“I would like to embrace the idea of the filmmaker or the artist as a healer”

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Why War

Review: Why War

VENICE 2024: In his philosophical film essay, Israeli director Amos Gitai tries to explore the root of mankind’s lust for war and destruction  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Adele Tulli • Director of Real

Interview: Adele Tulli • Director of Real

“What interests me is understanding what is happening in our lives”

The Italian director tells us about the genesis of her film, but also about the relationship, at once cathartic and perverse, that our society has with new technologies  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

The new film by Mehdi M Barsaoui, the director of A Son, follows a young woman who seizes her chance to start a new life, but everything is soon compromised  

14/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Real

Review: Real

In her second feature, Italian director Adele Tulli explores the frightening implications and astonishing potential of the digital world in which we’re immersed on an everyday basis  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

Interview: Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”

The Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the French Revolution  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

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