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1057 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 30/06/2025.

Principal photography under way for Manon Coubia’s Forêt Ivre

Principal photography under way for Manon Coubia’s Forêt Ivre

The young, Belgian-based French filmmaker is currently shooting her feature debut, which stars Anne Coesens, Salomé Richard and Aurélia Petit  

11/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France

Manele Labidi • Director of Queen Mom

Interview: Manele Labidi • Director of Queen Mom

“Producing stories helps us escape from socially assigned roles”

We met with the filmmaker as she presented her new film in Cinemamed’s closing slot, and chatted with her about the way she set out to explore issues of exile and racism  

11/12/2024 | Cinemamed 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvère Petit shooting La Baleine

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvère Petit shooting La Baleine

Sergi López and Solène Rigot are toplining the filmmaker’s first fiction feature, produced by Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée and sold by The Party Film Sales  

10/12/2024 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium/Spain

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)

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

10/12/2024 | The Co-production Podcast

Review: Queen Mom

Review: Queen Mom

Manele Labidi delivers a bitter-sweet family chronicle daringly venturing into fantasy film, exploring exile and identity with insolent tenderness  

06/12/2024 | Cinemamed 2024

Dania Reymond-Boughenou • Director of Silent Storms

Interview: Dania Reymond-Boughenou • Director of Silent Storms

“I think I have the subconscious desire to give a colour and a texture to invisible things”

The debuting writer-director shares how she brought to life the buried emotions of loss incurred during the Algerian Civil War through different cinematic elements  

06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Review: Silent Storms

Review: Silent Storms

In Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s speculative debut feature, the weight of Algerian Civil War history cannot physically be held back in a community confronted by mysterious events  

03/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Eddy De Pretto headlines Olivier Pairoux’s Vigilante

Eddy De Pretto headlines Olivier Pairoux’s Vigilante

Next January, the Belgian filmmaker will shoot his second feature, which will offer the French musician his first big film role  

28/11/2024 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Canada/France

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: Rabia

Review: Rabia

Tremendously toplined by Megan Northam, Mareike Engelhardt’s first feature is a hard-hitting and far-sighted work about the grey zones of radicalisation  

26/11/2024 | Films | Reviews | France/Germany/Belgium

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