Cannes review: Aya (2021)
‘Aya’ is not only a film that points out at the consequences of climat change. This is also a coming-of-age story about a girl whose life is about to change drastically on another level.
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Cannes review: When Night Meets Dawn (2021)
When the heavy summer heat reaches an anonymous suburb of Bucharest, it splits younger from older generations. Outside of the social housing complex from the late 1970’s with peeling facades and corroded balconies, there is no visible signs of life. Parents are probably planted in front of their TVs, cooling themselves off inside the air-conditioned […]
Diego Marcon: “The idea was to create a film that had to be percieved as a coded language of a very archetypal cinema genre, and to pervert it from the inside”
Italian visual artist and director Diego Marcon is in Cannes with his fourth short film ‘The Parents’ Room’ which screens in Directors’ Fortnight programme of the festival.
Cannes review: Free Men (2021)
Dreaming big in a place of broken dreams is as old as the history of humankind: the wish to break free from the drab reality, a burning hope that a wonder will change one’s life forever, a desire to start anew.
Interview with Samir Karahoda: “I use photography as a tool to complete the script and express my inner self”
The Kosovar filmmaker Samir Karahoda doesn’t like to call himself a director. He is, and stays a photographer, he says.
Cannes review: Inherent (2021)
The whos, the whys, and for that matter – hows, don’t seem to be playing any particular role in Nicolai G.H Johansen’s vampire coming-of-age drama ‘Inherent’ that competes in the short film section of Semaine de la Critique
Doc Alliance announces 2021 selection, introduces Short Film Award
Doc Alliance, a network of 7 seven prominent European documentary film festivals – CPH:DOX (Denmark), Doclisboa (Portugal), DOK Leipzig (Germany), FIDMarseille (France), Ji.hlava IDFF (Czech Republic), Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Poland) and Visions du Réel (Switzerland), has announced its selection for 2021. Each festival has nominated one feature length film, and for the first time […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Samir Karahoda’s short doku-fiction ‘Pa Vend’ (2021)
We present an exclusive first look at the trailer of Samir Karahoda’s short ‘Pa Vend’ (Displaced) that runs for Palme D’Or in the Short Film Competition of Cannes Film Festival In front of its world premiere on July 16th in Cannes, we bring you the exclusive trailer of the Kosovar film director Samir Karahoda’s sophomore […]
Antonio Méndez Esparza: “We had to adapt to the rhythm of the court”
Antonio Méndez Esparza was literally in the middle of location scouting for his next film when we finally had the oportunity to do this interview. The initially audio only conversation was briefly switched to the video modus, just to give us a glimpse of the Madrid neighborhood the director was currently in. Despite of a […]
