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4547 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 28/08/2025.

Review: Smiling Georgia

Review: Smiling Georgia

In his debut feature, Luka Beradze takes a surreal and darkly funny story as the starting point for a moving portrait of bitterness and alienation in the Georgian countryside  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Behrooz Karamizade  • Director of Empty Nets

Interview: Behrooz Karamizade • Director of Empty Nets

“I wanted to let young Iranian people have their say and show the world that there are other sides to Iran, too”

The German-Iranian director breaks down the masculine world of fishing, the prospects for the young generation of Iranians and his relationship with the sea  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Sophia Mocorrea  • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

Interview: Sophia Mocorrea • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

“I felt it was time we re-evaluated these traditions before blindly following them”

The director of the winner of a Short Film Jury Award at this year’s Sundance, screening as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, homes in on the outmoded traditions behind her short  

06/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Review: Background

Review: Background

The very creative Khaled Abdulwahed malaxes memories and sets out to follow the few traces left by his father, a Syrian student in the German Democratic Republic in the 1950s  

06/07/2023 | FIDMarseille 2023

Stephan Komandarev  • Director of Blaga’s Lessons

Interview: Stephan Komandarev • Director of Blaga’s Lessons

“We wanted to dedicate the film to our parents’ generation, which turned out to be the most heavily affected by the political transition in Bulgaria”

The seasoned Bulgarian director unpicks the personal motivation underpinning his sixth feature and reveals insights about his lead actress, amongst other topics  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Empty Nets

Review: Empty Nets

Behrooz Karamizade's debut feature shows how even the most ordinary Iranian citizens are only ever just a few strokes of bad luck and desperate decisions away from losing everything  

04/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Blaga’s Lessons

Review: Blaga’s Lessons

Bulgarian helmer Stephan Komandarev wraps up a social trilogy about the decay of his native land with his most uncompromising and least hopeful film yet  

04/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Review: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

The inexhaustible spirit of Terry Gilliam’s on-set misadventures is all over Cyril Aris’s complex doc  

04/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Michael Krummenacher kicks off filming on The Traitor

Michael Krummenacher kicks off filming on The Traitor

Based on a true story, this Swiss-German-produced film raises topical questions, such as opting for neutrality at a time of crisis  

30/06/2023 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Germany

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature, Armand, in production

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature, Armand, in production

The drama is toplined by Renate Reinsve and is being staged by Norway’s Eye Eye Pictures, the outfit launched by the producers of The Worst Person in the World  

29/06/2023 | Production | Funding | Norway/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany

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