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5689 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 10/06/2025.

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception  

28/03 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli, Stefano La Rosa • Directors of The Castle

Interview: Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli, Stefano La Rosa • Directors of The Castle

“We wanted to make a film with the kids, not just about them”

Making a collaborative movie with children is a serious game, according to the trio of documentary directors  

28/03 | CPH:DOX 2025

Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

Interview: Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

“This woman who doesn’t know anything about her past is a bit like us, who don’t know anything about that particular world”

We chatted with the director about his latest film, which is strikingly different from his usual works over recent years, being set in Israel, shot in English and starring an international cast  

28/03 | Bif&st 2025

Uberto Pasolini boards Picomedia and Intaglio Films’ TV adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels as showrunner

Uberto Pasolini boards Picomedia and Intaglio Films’ TV adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels as showrunner

The live-action version of Jonathan Swift’s novel will be shot in English and will be a co-production with Beta Film  

27/03 | Production | Funding | Italy/Germany

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

“Parenthood and gender identity are universal themes which are at risk of being exploited”

The director chatted with us about his documentary on the Milan-based doctor who helps patients along the challenging journeys of assisted conception and gender affirmation  

27/03 | /France/Italy/Switzerland

Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

Interview: Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

“In Italy, a significant number of people were raised in residential institutions, a phenomenon which shouldn’t be relegated to just a handful of news articles”

We met with the director to talk about abandoned children, female emancipation and the search for one’s roots, themes which are central to his documentary about the former Bari orphanage  

27/03 | Bif&st 2025

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)

The producers of the film by Maura Delpero are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support  

25/03 | The Co-production Podcast

Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

Interview: Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

“This type of violence and oppression doesn’t belong to the past, we see it every day, it’s scary”

We talked to the Italian director about his new film, inspired by the story of Hitler’s last taster, and about the fact that it could be set in the near future  

25/03 | Bif&st 2025

Review: The Tasters

Review: The Tasters

In his first period drama, Silvio Soldini focuses on the point of view of a group of women who, in the ruthless collective deception of nazism, suffer male violence and oppression  

25/03 | Bif&st 2025

Shooting under way on Bérenger Thouin’s first work, L'Age d’or

Shooting under way on Bérenger Thouin’s first work, L'Age d’or

Starring Souheila Yacoub, Yile Vianello and Vassili Schneider, the film is a French-Italian co-production by Gogogo Film and Graffiti Film  

25/03 | Production | Funding | France/Italy

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