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Spotlight: Middle Eastern Filmmakers
Venice Film Festival 2023: Hesitation Wound (Orizzonti) | Interview of Selman Nacar
We were delighted to sit down with director Selman Nacar for a chat about his brilliant Hesitation Wound which world…
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Spotlight: Middle Eastern Filmmakers
Venice Film Festival 2023: Tatami (Orizzonti) | Review
Tatami, by Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, skillfully combines sports excitement, political tension, and compelling character development to deliver…
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Venice Film Festival 2023
Venice Film Festival 2023: Priscilla by Sofia Coppola (Competition) | Review
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla premieres at the 80th Venice Film festival, but shows the titular character as an angelic apparition devoid…
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Venice Film Festival 2023
Venice Film Festival 2023: The Promised Land (Competition) | Review
The Promised Land, which premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, starring Mads Mikkelsen, is hardly innovative or surprising, but…
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Venice Film Festival 2023
Venice Film Festival 2023: Poor Things by Yórgos Lánthimos (Competition) | Review
Emma Stone shines and dazzles as sex-obsessed woman-child Bella in Yorgos Lanthimos’ titillating extravaganza.
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Venice Film Festival 2023
Venice Film Festival 2023: Ferrari (Competition) | Review
Michael Mann’s first feature in eight years, Ferrari, starring Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, premieres at the 80th…
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Venice Film Festival 2023
Venice Film Festival 2023: Comandante (Opening Film) | Review
Edoardo De Angelis’ submarine feature about the legendary Italian Captain Salvatore Todaro, starring Pietrofrancesco Favino, opens 80th Venice Film Festival
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Berlinale 2023
Berlinale 2023: The Cemetery of Cinema (Panorama) Review
Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s first feature-length documentary Cemetery of Cinema captures that elsusive feeling that only crops up when you watch…
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Trieste Film Festival 2023
Trieste Film Festival 2023: Stop-Zemlia (Review)
In Crystal Bear Awarded Stop-Zemlia, presented at the 34th Trieste Film Festival, director Kateryna Gornostai captures the skin-crawling feeling of…
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Trieste Film Festival 2023
Trieste Film Festival 2023: Jailbird (Review)
Andrea Magnani created a fairytale-like world in Jailbird in which one finds a deeper meaning, presented at the 34th Trieste…
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