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1247 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2002. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

Floor Van Der Meulen and Koji Nelissen • Director and producer of Happy Days

Interview: Floor Van Der Meulen and Koji Nelissen • Director and producer of Happy Days

“It’s a woman with an angelic side, but also a darker, more manipulative one”

The Dutch filmmaker and her producer talk to Cineuropa about the project that won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Prize at the Co-Production Village of the 16th Les Arcs Film Festival  

18/12/2024 | Les Arcs 2024 | Industry Village

IFFR reveals its main competition line-ups

IFFR reveals its main competition line-ups

The Dutch festival has announced the Tiger and Big Screen Competition titles for its 54th edition, in addition to some eclectic and star-studded Talks events  

17/12/2024 | IFFR 2025

Review: Sima’s Song

Review: Sima’s Song

The political eclipses the personal in Roya Sadat’s film about two friends living in Afghanistan on the eve of the 1978 Soviet invasion  

09/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024

IFFR’s CineMart co-production market reveals its 2025 line-up

IFFR’s CineMart co-production market reveals its 2025 line-up

Taking place from 2-5 February, the festival’s development showcase will see 20 features and four immersive works presented to international industry representatives  

09/12/2024 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

Interview: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”

The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations of women in Afghanistan  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

Interview: Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

“When you’ve lived through a political disaster, you no longer see politics as something that happens during the evening news”

We sat down to chat to the director about her film, which constitutes a warning against sweeping politics under the rug  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 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: 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

Review: The Jacket

Review: The Jacket

Belgian director Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a multilayered narrative tracking a symbolic garment through the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Also among the European winners were An American Pastoral, Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries, The Guest and Writing Hawa  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024 | Awards

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