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4642 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 07/11/2025.

Sander Burger  • Director of Totem

Interview: Sander Burger • Director of Totem

“If you cast a child, you don’t cast an actor. You cast someone very close to the character you had in mind”

We spoke to the Dutch helmer about his latest effort, an endearing tale of family love and friendship between the young protagonist and her totem animal, a giant porcupine  

20/07/2023 | Giffoni 2023

Review: Landshaft

Review: Landshaft

German director Daniel Kötter attempts to grasp the bigger picture of the ongoing Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict  

13/07/2023 | Golden Apricot 2023

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

Interview: Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

"I would like politicians to understand what these false promises do to the common people and change their attitudes"

The Georgian director breaks down his debut feature, which paints a delicate portrait of a part of his home country that is very beautiful but profoundly lonely  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

CICAE’s Arthouse Cinema Training finds a new home in Berlin, launches call for participants

CICAE’s Arthouse Cinema Training finds a new home in Berlin, launches call for participants

The 20th edition of the programme for cinema professionals running arthouse theatres will unspool in Holzmarkt from 30 October-5 November  

11/07/2023 | Industry | Market | Germany/Europe

Cyril Aris  • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Interview: Cyril Aris • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

"I wanted to explore how art can get people back on their feet again"

The Lebanese director gives us the insights on his documentary centred on a film crew in the middle of production paralysed by the catastrophic explosion in the Port of Beirut in 2020  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

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

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