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264 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 04/09/2025.

The Alentours Forum selects 31 projects

The Alentours Forum selects 31 projects

The Rhenish Co-Production Meetings will unspool 27 – 29 June in Strasbourg, showcasing French- and German-language projects, both fiction films and documentaries  

26/06/2023 | Forum Alentours 2023

Benoît Mariage • Director of Habib, la grande aventure

Interview: Benoît Mariage • Director of Habib, la grande aventure

"I wanted to make a comedy about an eternally torn human being"

The Belgian filmmaker spoke to us about the origins and “heroic journey” of the lead character in his fifth feature film, which is hitting cinemas in his homeland this week  

06/06/2023 | /Belgium/France/Switzerland

Anna Novion  • Director of Marguerite’s Theorem

Interview: Anna Novion • Director of Marguerite’s Theorem

“I didn’t want to fall into a cliché or a caricature of the autistic maths genius”

CANNES 2023: The director proves that the very special world of elite-level mathematics can be a laughing matter, and even a romantic comedy  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Special Screenings

Review: La chimera

Review: La chimera

CANNES 2023: Alice Rohrwacher gets back to marginalised characters with a touch of Etruscan mystery, by way of a dowser-esque stranger who joins forces with a gang of grave robbers in 1980s Italy  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Marguerite's Theorem

Review: Marguerite's Theorem

CANNES 2023: A maths whizz-kid suddenly strays from her path and finds out what real life is in this entertaining and unassuming film by Anna Novion  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Special Screenings

Review: Paradise

Review: Paradise

Alexander Abaturov’s third documentary feature portrays a human tragedy in the Siberian taiga with the urgency of a disaster movie  

19/05/2023 | Docaviv 2023

Review: Bloodhound

Review: Bloodhound

Exploring blood and suffering but also rebirth, Yamina Zoutat’s is a mysterious movie which balks at nothing, like a bloodhound hunting its prey  

27/03/2023 | Cinéma du Réel 2023

Review: Naître Svetlana Staline

Review: Naître Svetlana Staline

Swiss director Gabriel Tejedor takes us through one of the most incredible and intriguing fates of the 20th century  

21/03/2023 | FIFDH Geneva 2023

Mehran Tamadon  • Director of Where God Is Not and My Worst Enemy

Interview: Mehran Tamadon • Director of Where God Is Not and My Worst Enemy

Where God Is Not is like a wide shot, and My Worst Enemy is like a close-up”

BERLINALE 2023: The Iranian director dissects his approach and discusses delicate ethical questions posed by his two films, screened in different sections of the gathering  

01/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum/Encounters

Review: My Worst Enemy

Review: My Worst Enemy

BERLINALE 2023: In his second Berlin-screened documentary about perpetrators and victims of torture at the hands of the Iranian regime, Mehran Tamadon is interrogated by actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi  

22/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

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