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997 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 03/05/2024.

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

Magnus Martens  • Director of There’s Something in the Barn

Interview: Magnus Martens • Director of There’s Something in the Barn

“We thought: ‘Let’s make a fucked-up tourist guide to Norway’”

Get ready for a different kind of Christmas movie as the Norwegian director puts his own spin on awkward culture clashes and barn elves on the verge of a breakdown  

05/12/2023 | /Norway

CHRZU  • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

Interview: CHRZU • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

“This is a post-truth shockumentary; it’s real if you want to believe that it’s real”

Carlotta Moore, “the biggest movie star you weren’t aware of before”, finally gets her own film thanks to the Finnish director  

22/11/2023 | /Finland

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

Interview: Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

Interview: Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

“I would like the audience to understand that it’s also about her soul”

In this compassionate debut feature by the Czech director, the human body can be a tool, or an obstacle  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

Interview: Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

“Bad things can be fun”

The Estonian filmmaker makes a case for facing your fears as she follows two siblings who are dealing with grief in unusual ways  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

Interview: Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

“When you are constantly lying to yourself, you can’t be free”

It’s time for a reckoning in this feature debut, a drama about a woman who finally confronts her husband  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Tomas Vengris • Director of Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

Interview: Tomas Vengris • Director of Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

“We deny it, we want to think we are more complex, but everyone wants to love and be loved”

Already behind Motherland, the Lithuanian-American filmmaker turns to his own flat for inspiration  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Rebels with a Cause

Miguel Faus  • Director of The Quiet Maid

Interview: Miguel Faus • Director of The Quiet Maid

“I hope that everyone is more than their job”

We talked to the Spanish filmmaker about his debut feature, centred on a maid stuck in a luxurious villa with her employers  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

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