European countries start revealing their titles submitted for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2022 Academy Awards
Mese: Settembre 2021
Interview: Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy – “Trap music was a good starting point to portray all the absurdity, contradictions and nihilism of these modern times” – Venice 2021 – Giornate degli Autori
VENICE 2021: The sophomore film by the Italian director tells of the dizzying rise and fall of a young trap music star who got sucked into a downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction
Interview: Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night – “I never thought of casting as an endgame” – Venice 2021 – Orizzonti Extra
VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots on a film set, and how grief, desire and spending a night with a girl in Paris contributed
Interview: Laurent Cantet • Director of Arthur Rambo – “I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions” – Toronto 2021 – Platform
The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace
Interview: Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable – “I tried not to play the artist too much with this film, in order to construct a thriller, pure and simple” – Toronto 2021 – Special Presentations
The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema by exploring the huis clos form
Interview: Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival – “Documentary is cinema’s most democratic genre” – Astra 2021
The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we discussed with its artistic director
Review: Certainty of Probabilities – Astra 2021
Raluca Durbacă’s found footage documentary assembles a glorious portrait of the Romania in 1968 while elaborating on the means and meanings of audiovisual propaganda
Giacomo Abbruzzese is shooting Disco Boy – Production / Funding – France/Belgium/Italy/Poland
Franz Rogowski, Morr N’Diaye and Laetitia Ky headline this production piloted by Films Grand Huit with Belgium, Italy and Poland, and sold by Charades
Online “7+7” festival, celebrating Ukrainian and British women film directors, kicks off – Shorts – Ukraine/UK
Taking place from 14 September-3 November, the festival will host screenings of old and new films, plus educational events about women in the film industry
Dominique Deruddere returns with The Chapel – Production / Funding – Belgium
The director, Oscar-nominated in 2000 for Everybody’s Famous!, is back with a feature that goes behind the scenes of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth competition