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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Venice 2025: Short Summer (dir. Nastia Korkia) | Review
"Short Summer" depicts the Russian childhood during wartime from a naturalistic lens, evoking the memories and small details that shape…
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Venice 2025: Waking Hours | Interview with Federico Cammarata & Filippo Foscarini
"We wanted to transmit, at least partially, the experience of being lost in a forest in which at night you…
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Karlovy Vary 2025: Before / After | Interview with Manoël Dupont
For director Manoël Dupont, cinema is not about giving answers; it’s about creating a space to get lost, stumble into…
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Karlovy Vary 2025: The Luminous Life | Interview with João Rosas
"The Luminous Life" follows a quietly observant young man adrift in Lisbon as he navigates emotional uncertainty and the blurred…
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Karlovy Vary 2025: Out of Love (dir. Nathan Ambrosioni) | Review
A quiet storm of emotion and responsibility, "Out of Love" is a tender, restrained, and deeply human portrait of unexpected…
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Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Imago | Interview with Déni Oumar Pitsaev
“To build a house that cannot be destroyed." We interviewed Chechen director Déni Oumar Pitsaev who won L’Oeil d’or, the…
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Cannes 2025 (Directors’ Fortnight): +10K (dir. Gala Hernández López) | Review
With "+10K," Gala Hernández López delivers a masterfully crafted and exhilarating mid-length hybrid film that probes the manufacturing of dreams…
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Cannes 2025 (Un Certain Regard): Karavan (dir. Zuzana Kirchnerová) | Review
2009 Cinéfondation Award winner Zuzana Kirchnerová brings "Karavan" to Un Certain Regard this year, presenting a poignant slice of life…
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Cannes 2025: Arco | Interview with Ugo Bienvenu
"Our superpower is intuition. Machines compute. We feel. Let’s not forget that." We were excited to chat with Ugo Bienvenu…
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Cannes 2025 (Directors’ Fortnight): Wild Foxes (dir. Valéry Carnoy) | Review
Healing gets buried. Pain starts to resurface. Self-destruction explodes limitlessly. Valéry Carnoy’s "Wild Foxes" bares its fangs fiercely to unravel…
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