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2302 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 16/07/2025.

Review: Simple Passion

Review: Simple Passion

In her highly accomplished adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, Danielle Arbid delves right to the very heart of an irrepressible and incandescent love which ends up driving a woman to distraction  

21/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Pablo Agüero • Director of Akelarre

Interview: Pablo Agüero • Director of Akelarre

"I steered clear of period-film clichés"

Pablo Agüero talks to us about his new film, Akelarre, the chronicle of a witch hunt that took place centuries ago, but the repercussions of which can still be clearly felt today  

18/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

Interview: Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

“I am my own research – I experienced so much of this myself”

VENICE 2020: We sat down with Julia von Heinz to get the low-down on her competition entry And Tomorrow the Entire World  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Laila in Haifa

Review: Laila in Haifa

VENICE 2020: Israeli great Amos Gitai crafts a beautiful nocturnal roundelay in an unusual location: a hip bar with an equally Israeli and Palestinian clientele  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: New Order

Review: New Order

VENICE 2020: Michel Franco makes an audacious, unremitting and brutal critique of inequality and its relationship to violence  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: And Tomorrow The Entire World

Review: And Tomorrow The Entire World

VENICE 2020: Julia von Heinz mines her own past as an anti-fascist activist in this fictional drama asking whether the best way to fight violence is through retaliatory violence  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

“This film is more extreme because you don’t know where you are”

VENICE 2020: We talked to seemingly indefatigable documentary auteur Gianfranco Rosi about his competition entry Notturno  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Notturno

Review: Notturno

VENICE 2020: The most meticulous of cinematic artists, Gianfranco Rosi, takes an intricate, compassionate and poetic look at daily life along the Middle Eastern front line  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: The Macaluso Sisters

Review: The Macaluso Sisters

VENICE 2020: In retracing the entire lives of five sisters in Palermo, Emma Dante tugs at the viewer’s heartstrings and treats us to some wonderful visual solutions  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert • Directors of Never Gonna Snow Again

Interview: Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert • Directors of Never Gonna Snow Again

“We wanted to make a film that cannot be classified”

VENICE 2020: We met up with Polish helmer Małgorzata Szumowska and her long-time collaborator Michał Englert to talk about their competition title Never Gonna Snow Again  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

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