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87 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 20/05/2025.

Review: The Truth

Review: The Truth

VENICE 2019: With this year’s opening film, Hirokazu Kore-eda proves he is good enough to survive a shoot in another language, but not good enough to avoid every piece of clunky dialogue  

29/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Review: A Girl Missing

Review: A Girl Missing

With his new film Kôji Fukada once again questions the seeming stability of Japanese society  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Samurai Marathon

Review: Samurai Marathon

Bernard Rose’s eye-pleasing samurai flick is enjoyable entertainment despite its flaws  

26/06/2019 | Edinburgh 2019

Review: First Love

Review: First Love

CANNES 2019: Takashi Miike delivers a fun, violent tale about a young couple meeting, falling in love, and then fighting the police and the Yakuza  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: A Picture with Yuki

Review: A Picture with Yuki

Lachezar Avramov's first feature, screening in competition at the Sofia International Film Festival, discusses racism, responsibility and guilt  

18/03/2019 | Sofia 2019

Daniel Dencik shooting Miss Osaka in Japan

Daniel Dencik shooting Miss Osaka in Japan

The Danish filmmaker is continuing principal photography for his sophomore feature, with Victoria Carmen Sonne and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard starring in the lead roles  

18/12/2018 | Production | Denmark/Japan/Norway

Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi  • Directors

Interview: Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi • Directors

“We tried to take our time to bring the emotion to the audience”

VENICE 2017: Cineuropa talked to Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, the directors of The Night I Swam, which was presented in the Orizzonti section at Venice  

07/09/2017

Israel, Lisbon, Tokyo, Toronto: Italian film across the globe

Israel, Lisbon, Tokyo, Toronto: Italian film across the globe

In April and May a number of events will take Italian films on tours in international markets  

27/03/2017 | Festivals | Italy/Israel/Portugal/Japan/Canada

Daguerrotype: The portrait of a woman

Daguerrotype: The portrait of a woman

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new film, made with an entirely French team, is another ghost story, another variation on his preferred themes  

08/03/2017 | Films | France/Japan/Belgium

Kohki Hasei  • Director

Interview: Kohki Hasei • Director

“I should write something beautiful so beauty will come - life is short”

VENICE 2015: Japanese director Kohki Hasei is presenting the Italian co-production Blanka at Biennale College Cinema  

08/09/2015

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