France
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Venice Film Festival 2025
Venice 2025: Lost Land | Interview with Akio Fujimoto, Kazutaka Watanabe, and Sujauddin Karimuddin
“There is no voice and no past… unless we preserve it” — The creators of "Lost Land" on making the…
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Spotlight: Emerging European Talents
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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Locarno Film Festival 2025
Locarno 2025: The Seasons (by Maureen Fazendeiro) | Review
A poetic and poignant portrait of Alentejo, Portugal, where time’s toll on the landscape calls for preservation, not only in…
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2025
Melbourne IFF 2025: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (dir. Diego Céspedes) | Review
Diego Céspedes showcases a mysterious world where a plague spreads through a single gaze between men in love, in a…
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Karlovy Vary IFF 2025
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 IFF 2025
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
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
Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) | Review
A love letter to cinema and Recife, Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest examines how we reconstruct the past through an…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Palme d’Or): It Was Just An Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi) | Review
Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winning film investigates the tortured souls of the oppressed through a moral conundrum.
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (ACID): Obscure Night, “Ain’t I a child?” | Interview with Sylvain George
In "Nuit obscure – “Ain’t I a child?”," Sylvain George wields cinema as a political gesture and poetic act, confronting…
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