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11008 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 06/09/2025.

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

Interview: Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

"I wanted to move towards something more lyrical, to find greater depth"

The Belgian director is back with a new film, which sees him continuing to explore his favourite theme – parenthood – while relocating his work to Japan  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Koya Kamura  • Director of Winter in Sokcho

Interview: Koya Kamura • Director of Winter in Sokcho

"It’s not spectacular, it’s an intimate film"

The French-Japanese director shares the adventure of his first feature film, which was shot in Korea and which stars Bella Kim and Roschdy Zem in lead roles  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

Interview: Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Shepherds

Review: Shepherds

Canadian filmmaker Sophie Deraspe’s latest work adapts Mathyas Lefebure’s pastoral life story about leaving everything behind to become a shepherd in Provence  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Special Presentations

Review: Horizonte

Review: Horizonte

A mother and her son, both ghosts, tread the path of redemption after a civil war marked by crimes and wrongful deaths in César Augusto Acevedo's sophomore feature  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: A Missing Part

Review: A Missing Part

Guillaume Senez takes Romain Duris to Japan, telling a fine and well-put-together story about parenthood where a father allows himself a final reprieve and in which emotion swells like a wave  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Meet the Barbarians

Review: Meet the Barbarians

A Brittany village comes into turmoil at the arrival of a refugee Syrian family in this intelligent, politically engaged, biting and affectionate comedy, signed Julie Delpy  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Galas

Japanese animation meets French and Italian co-production partners at the Venice Production Bridge

Japanese animation meets French and Italian co-production partners at the Venice Production Bridge

VENICE 2024: Japan and Europe are set to strengthen their collaborations, and the brand-new co-production treaty between Italy and Japan is perhaps the first achievement of many to come  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Venice Production Bridge

Review: Winter in Sokcho

Review: Winter in Sokcho

French-Japanese director Koya Kamura delivers an sensitive, intimate, and atmospheric first feature film about the road to self-acceptance  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

Interview: Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

“The war is already part of our daily lives, and we, as artists, can't do anything else but portray it”

VENICE 2024: The Ukrainian documentarian discusses how she depicts the long-term effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on her people  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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