Spotlight: Emerging European Talents
As a European-based media outlet, Film Fest Report is proud to support the most promising European emerging filmmakers.
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Visions du Réel 2026: Saudades Eternas (dir. Emma Boccanfuso) | Review
In the heart of the favela, Emma Boccanfuso portrays a vibrant, deeply endearing matriarch who turns her home into a…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Guided Tour (dir. Alba Jaramillo) | Review
"Guided Tour" deftly depicts, with both narrative and formal ingenuity, a very real curse: the one left behind by those…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Nicole Nicole (dir. Lauren Dällenbach) | Review
Touching and luminous, "Nicole Nicole" offers an intimate, family-centered narrative that tenderly captures a journey of emancipation as unconventional as…
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CPH:DOX 2026: The Cord (dir. Nolwenn Hervé) | Review
A moving and urgent portrait of a woman working tirelessly to patch the failures of the healthcare system, "The Cord"…
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Berlinale 2026: A Family (dir. Mees Peijnenburg) | Review
"A Family" trains its focus on how familial collapse reshapes children's perspectives — not directly on their parents, but on…
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Berlinale 2026: I Understand Your Displeasure (dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich) | Review
In Kilian Armando Friedrich’s "I Understand Your Displeasure," Sabine Thalau delivers an exceptional dual performance of angelic endurance and demonic…
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PÖFF 2025: La Carn | Interview with Joan Porcel
We met filmmaker Joan Porcel whose feature "La Carn" follows a young dancer journeying through the digital underworld.
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CINEMANIA 2025: Interview with Félix Lefebvre
The French actor revealed in François Ozon’s "Summer of 85" looks back on his early career: moving audiences through emotion…
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CINEMANIA 2025: Adam’s Sake | Interview with Laura Wandel
"To me, making people feel empathy is the most beautiful thing cinema can offer," says Laura Wandel, who came to…
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CINEMANIA 2025: The Little Sister | Interview with Nadia Melliti
Actress Nadia Melliti impresses as much with her on-screen magnetism as with the sincerity and generosity she brings when talking…
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