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609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

"We approached the story as if it were a diamond and gave it different facets"

We met with the inspired filmmaking duo to talk about their latest film effort, a frenetic and psychedelic rereading of the Hero myth  

06/03 | Luxembourg 2025

Review: Timestamp

Review: Timestamp

BERLINALE 2025: Kateryna Gornostai’s mosaic-like, simultaneously sober and emotional observational documentary depicts school life across war-torn Ukraine  

21/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: The Safe House

Review: The Safe House

BERLINALE 2025: Lionel Baier delivers an atypical, colourful and high-energy film which sees history crossing paths with the story of an eccentric family in their Parisian apartment in May ‘68  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

Interview: Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

“I was able to talk about the Holocaust without having to make a historical film”

BERLINALE 2025: The Swiss director unpicks his understanding of fiction and his artistic approach to the literary source of his feature, an autobiographical novel by Christophe Boltanski  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Lucile Hadžihalilović • Director of The Ice Tower

Interview: Lucile Hadžihalilović • Director of The Ice Tower

“It’s a classical story of a teenager who is now old enough to think that she can discover the milieu of adults and the world itself”

BERLINALE 2025: The French director talks about the symbolism of The Snow Queen as well as opening up about female idols from her own youth  

19/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Review: Reflection in a Dead Diamond

BERLINALE 2025: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani present a baroque spy film with some crazy twists and turns, which is both fun and exhausting  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: The Ice Tower

Review: The Ice Tower

BERLINALE 2025: Lucile Hadžihalilović offers up a sensual yet peculiar rendition of The Snow Queen, a blend of modern fairy tale and coming-of-age story  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

Interview: Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

"We’re not looking at a person, we’re with them"

BERLINALE 2025: The French director unpicks her new movie, a magnetic and organic portrait born out of a very particular working approach with students from the Conservatoire de Paris  

16/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: Ari

Review: Ari

BERLINALE 2025: Blending instinct, simplicity and suggestion and showing remarkable sensitivity, Léonor Serraille depicts the poignant meanderings of a gentle man living in our rough epoch  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Juliette Binoche to chair the Cannes Film Festival jury

Juliette Binoche to chair the Cannes Film Festival jury

The French actress will head up the competition jury at the 78th edition of the event, which unspools from 13-24 May  

04/02 | Cannes 2025

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