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189 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 10/06/2025.

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Backstage

Review: Backstage

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Bye Bye Tiberias

Review: Bye Bye Tiberias

VENICE 2023: Lina Soualem weaves an expert patchwork documentary following the turbulent fate of the resilient Palestinian women in her family, including her mother Hiam Abbass  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: City of Wind

Review: City of Wind

VENICE 2023: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir impresses with her debut feature, which investigates what happens to the souls of young people in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital  

31/08/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Una Gunjak  • Director of Excursion

Interview: Una Gunjak • Director of Excursion

"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"

The Bosnian director talks about her first feature, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s heteropatriarchal rules  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Out of Competition

Dominic Sangma  • Director of Rapture

Interview: Dominic Sangma • Director of Rapture

“We need to stop, pause and see what's really happening behind the veil of fear”

The Indian director enlightens us on the ways of translating the past into a cinematic, fictional present  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Rapture

Review: Rapture

Indian director Dominic Sangma explores fear and societal tensions in his sophomore feature  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Excursion

Review: Excursion

Una Gunjak’s powerful debut film shows adolescence for what it really is: an endless search for meaning and for that spark which turns banal, everyday life into a boundless adventure  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del Presente

Kamal Lazraq • Director of Hounds

Interview: Kamal Lazraq • Director of Hounds

"It’s still a Moroccan film: it’s tragic, funny, weird, sometimes violent, sometimes mystical"

A gripping movie set in the slums of Casablanca and awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes, the Moroccan filmmaker’s first feature is about to hit French cinemas  

18/07/2023 | /France/Morocco/Belgium/Qatar

Vlad Petri  • Director of Between Revolutions

Interview: Vlad Petri • Director of Between Revolutions

“I consider that the most important revolutions of the second half of the 20th century happened in Iran and Romania”

The Romanian filmmaker reveals the cultural inspiration and the factual research underpinning his fictionalised, poetic documentary  

20/06/2023 | Transilvania 2023

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