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995 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 26/04/2024.

Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

Interview: Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

“I can’t predict the future, but I know this is just the beginning”

The winner of Göteborg’s Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award plays with fact and fiction in his debut film, which sees a woman opening up her home to a film crew  

14/02 | Göteborg 2024

Review: Ibelin

Review: Ibelin

Benjamin Ree's Göteborg and Sundance winner is uplifting and joyful, and might become one of the year’s biggest crowd-pleasers  

07/02 | Göteborg 2024

Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

Interview: Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

“If society doesn’t trust you, how can you trust it back?”

In their film, which won Göteborg’s Angelo Award, the directorial duo shows what happens to communities if everyone does indeed just leave  

06/02 | Göteborg 2024

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

Interview: Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

“Freud is not the most empathetic person in the world, but you do develop some empathy for him later on”

We got the low-down on this experimental film helmed by the directorial duo, in which Sigmund Freud meets Moses  

05/02 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

Interview: Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

“My movies are better when I don’t have a lot of control”

The Swiss-Kenyan director unpicks his third feature, in which the characters have to be practical about their dreams  

02/02 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

Interview: Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

“I appreciate it when films are watchable – when I want to revisit them and they don’t break my heart too much”

The Serbian director takes a trip back to 1999, but the question is: what’s reality and what’s fiction?  

30/01 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

Interview: Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

“This film really came from the heart”

The past is the present – and vice versa – in the second part of the Brazilian director’s trilogy  

30/01 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Benjamin Ree • Director of Ibelin

Interview: Benjamin Ree • Director of Ibelin

“I wanted people to know the gaming world can be inclusive”

The Norwegian director enters the virtual world and finds real emotions there  

25/01 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Interview: Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

“I used to be fascinated by Khrushchev’s shoe-banging incident, yet I never realised it had to do with the politics of my own country”

In the Belgian director’s new documentary, music meets politics – and the results are explosive  

23/01 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi • Directors of In the Land of Brothers

Interview: Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi • Directors of In the Land of Brothers

“This film will be controversial, and we don’t have a problem with it”

The duo of Iranian filmmakers show that something is rotten in their home country via a story about the lives of three Aghan refugees  

22/01 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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