Oct 7, 2024 · Romania’s longest-running film gathering, the Astra Film Festival (20-27 October, Sibiu), seems more determined than ever to attract the local audiences with what the organisers call “the cinema of truth”. Besides four competitions, detailed below, the festival offers various thematic sidebars – for example, “East to West”, “Family …

Jun 20, 2023 · We sat down with Vlad Petri, whose hybrid work Between Revolutions [+ ] has just won both the Best Feature Film and the FIPRESCI Awards in the Romanian Days competition of the 22nd Transilvania International Film Festival (see the news). Cineuropa: Many parallels were drawn between the collapses of the political systems in the Eastern European countries, but one would rarely look for ...

Review: Quir With courage and bucketloads of affection, Nicola Bellucci’s new feature portrays characters on the edge who are struggling to survive in a world which would rather forget them 29/01 | Solothurn 2025

Sep 14, 2022 · Trenque Lauquen [+ ], which premiered to acclaim last week in Venice ’s Orizzonti section, seems to be cycling through so many themes and reference points until it finally alights on its key thrust: the urge to disappear, and to cast off the inessential aspects of life that hold us back. Laura Paredes, familiar from recent alternative Argentinian cinema, plays a young researcher and civil ...

Nov 10, 2021 · Award-winning Slovak producer and filmmaker Mira Fornay is currently working on a lockdown film called She - Hero [+ ] (working title: Heroine’s Journey). After her previous works My Dog Killer [+ ] and Cook F**k Kill [+ ], which dealt with neo-Nazism and domestic abuse, respectively, Fornay is helming a different type of movie. She - Hero is described as a poetic film, or a “film poem ...

Jul 6, 2023 · We sat down to speak with Stephan Komandarev, who has just presented his latest film, Blaga’s Lessons [+ ], in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is the third part of his social trilogy on present-day Bulgaria, coming on the heels of Directions [+ ] (2017) and Rounds [+ ] (2019). Besides some interesting details about his research into ...

Feb 24, 2023 · Bastien Bouillon, who won the Best Male Newcomer Cesar by way of The Night of the 12th (© Julien Massicard/Ecole nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière)

Feb 24, 2024 · It’s in a paradoxical atmosphere, between the denunciation of sexual violence (notably during the speech by Judith Godrèche) and the celebration of new talent in French cinema (as well as honourary awards for Christopher Nolan and Agnès Jaoui), that the 49th César Awards ceremony took place. Justine Triet ’s Anatomy of a Fall [+ ] unsurprisingly came out on top, with the Palme d’Or ...

Feb 13, 2023 · The second feature-length film by Romanian director Vlad Petri, Between Revolutions [+ ], will have its world premiere in the Berlinale 's Forum section in a few days’ time. Cineuropa exclusively brings you the trailer. Through a series of letters, Between Revolutions tells the story of Zahra and Maria, who met at university in Bucharest in the 1970s and formed a deep friendship. As ...

Industria / Mercato - Francia Rapporto industria: Distribuzione, esercenti e streaming 250,2 milioni di incassi nel 2024 per il cinema francese all'estero di Fabien Lemercier