Review: The End Will Be Spectacular

Ersin Çelik uses the 100-day resistance campaign in Diyarbakir, which started in November 2015, to highlight the divisions between the Turkish authorities and the Kurds

27/01 | IFFR 2020 | Perspectives

Neubau wins the top Max Ophüls Prize

German director Johannes Maria Schmit's first feature has been handed the Award for Best Feature at this year's Max Ophüls Prize Festival

27/01 | Max Ophüls Prize 2020 | Awards

Review: Kala azar

In her feature debut, Janis Rafa proves you don’t need Mad Max to go post-apocalyptic

27/01 | IFFR 2020 | Tiger Competition

Interview: Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne • Directors of Working Girls

“We wanted to explore a female form of heroism”

We met with Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne to talk about their film Working Girls, selected in the IFFR

27/01 | IFFR 2020 | Voices Limelight

Film Reviews

Identifying Features
by Fernanda Valadez
The first feature film by Mexico’s Fernanda Valadez is a very well-directed road movie, following a mother in search of her missing son who disappeared en route to the US

Kala azar
by Janis Rafa
In her feature debut, Janis Rafa proves you don’t need Mad Max to go post-apocalyptic

Mosquito
by João Nuno Pinto
The opening film of this year’s IFFR, by Portugal's João Nuno Pinto, borrows Kurtz’s final words in Heart of Darkness and delves right into the horror… the horror…

Te quiero, imbécil
by Laura Mañá
Laura Mañá uses humour to portray the crisis of the modern-day heterosexual male, caught between archaic values and new social expectations, mainly of a sentimental kind

Figli
by Giuseppe Bonito
The last film written by Mattia Torre is a bittersweet comedy on what it is to be a parent in Italy today, a highly intelligent and original work starring Valerio Mastandrea and Paola Cortellesi

Fanny Lye Deliver'd
by Thomas Clay
In the aftermath of the English Civil War, a devout Puritan family shelters a mysterious couple, in British auteur Thomas Clay’s third feature

Valley of Souls
by Nicolás Rincón Gille
The first fiction feature by the Colombian director living in Belgium Nicolás Rincón Gille is an epic memorial tale following in the tracks of the Colombian Civil War

Tench
by Patrice Toye
Patrice Toye dares to tackle the topic of paedophilia head on, charting the inner conflict of a young man fighting his deepest, darkest thoughts

Review: Valley of Souls

The first fiction feature by the Colombian director living in Belgium Nicolás Rincón Gille is an epic memorial tale following in the tracks of the Colombian Civil War

24/01 | IFFR 2020 | Voices

Vita da Carlo to be Carlo Verdone’s first Amazon series

24/01 | Television | Italy

Review: Identifying Features

The first feature film by Mexico’s Fernanda Valadez is a very well-directed road movie, following a mother in search of her missing son who disappeared en route to the US

24/01 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Te quiero, imbécil

Laura Mañá uses humour to portray the crisis of the modern-day heterosexual male, caught between archaic values and new social expectations, mainly of a sentimental kind

24/01 | Films | Reviews | Spain

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Interviews

Cineuropa talked to Slovakian director Mira Fornay, who is about to show her third feature, Cook, F**k, Kill, at the IFFR

We sat down with Danish director Susanne Kovács to discuss her first feature-length documentary, It Takes a Family, screening at Göteborg after its premiere at DOK Leipzig

We met with Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne to talk about their film Working Girls, selected in the IFFR

We chatted to filmmaker Emir Kusturica about this year’s edition of his Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, a kind of winter film school for emerging talents

Cineuropa met up with director Filippo Meneghetti at Unifrance’s 22nd Rendez-vous with French Cinema to discuss Two of Us

Cineuropa caught up with Greek video artist-turned-director Janis Rafa, who is back at IFFR with her feature debut, Kala azar, following her short Requiem to a Shipwreck

We spoke to German director Harald Bergmann on the occasion of the world premiere of his documentary Vorzeit – In Praise of Greece at the Hellas Filmbox Berlin festival

Spaniard Juan Rodrigáñez is finally releasing his second feature, Rights-of-Man, in his home country after presenting it at festivals such as Gijón, Málaga, Cinespaña in Toulouse and FIDMarseille

Arte France Cinéma throws its weight behind Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven

The upcoming opus by Albert Serra and the feature debut by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet will also be co-produced by the French-German channel’s film arm

24/01 | Production | Funding | France

REPORT: When East Meets West 2020

We profile the winning projects of the co-production forum that was held during the 2020 edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West

24/01 | Trieste 2020 | WEMW

The series Bang Bang Baby is in pre-production for Amazon Prime Video

The first Italian Amazon Original fiction series, created by Andrea di Stefano, will be a crime series set in 1980s Milan, featuring a teenage protagonist

24/01 | Television | Italy

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Eden
by Ágnes Kocsis
Rotterdam 2020 - Big Screen Competition

Desterro
by Maria Clara Escobar
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition

My Mexican Bretzel
by Nuria Giménez
Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future Competition

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
by Massoud Bakhshi
Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition

This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future

Festival Scope presents a selection of films from IFFR 2020

Audiences online will get the chance to discover 15 titles from the Bright Future section on the same day as they are screened at the festival

24/01 | IFFR 2020

The Berlinale to open with My Salinger Year

The 70th edition of the German festival will kick off with a Sigourney Weaver starrer

24/01 | Berlinale 2020

Interview: Susanne Kovács • Director of It Takes a Family

“It takes a long time to be able to address trauma and how it influences everything”

We sat down with Danish director Susanne Kovács to discuss her first feature-length documentary, It Takes a Family, screening at Göteborg after its premiere at DOK Leipzig

24/01 | Göteborg 2020

Film Reviews

Asymmetry
by Masa Neskovic
In her feature film debut, Belgrade director Maša Nešković recounts three moments in a couple’s story, whose destiny is reflective of Serbian society itself

The Breitner Commando
by Abdel Raouf Dafri
Intense violence, cruelty, ideals and betrayals run rife in screenwriter-cum-director Abdel Raouf Dafri’s first feature film, which follows a commando on a mission at the height of the Algerian War

Light from the Chocolate Factory
by Dag Johan Haugerud
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud channels Éric Rohmer and the French New Wave in this excellent comedy of morals and music

Marek Edelman... And There Was Love in the Ghetto
by Jolanta Dylewska
This subtle and moving documentary about romance in the Warsaw Ghetto, as told by a witness and recorded by Jolanta Dylewska, has been screened at Trieste

The Weeping Woman
by Jayro Bustamante
VENICE 2019: In his third feature, presented in Giornate degli Autori, Jayro Bustamante tells the story of the Guatemalan genocide using the codes of the ghost movie

1917
by Sam Mendes
Director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins have created a stunning continuous-shot dash into enemy territory during World War I

Les Misérables
by Ladj LY
CANNES 2019: With his first fiction feature, Ladj Ly paints an intense and impactful portrait of the relations between police and young people in the Paris suburbs

The Personal History of David Copperfield
by Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci surprises with this remarkably madcap adaptation of the much-loved Charles Dickens novel

Adrian Ţofei in post-production with apocalyptic indie flick We Put the World to Sleep

The film centres on two lovers with big plans: ending all life on Earth

24/01 | Production | Funding | Romania

Interview: Emir Kusturica • Founder and director, Kustendorf Film & Music Festival

“Making a movie is similar to entering a casino”

We chatted to filmmaker Emir Kusturica about this year’s edition of his Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, a kind of winter film school for emerging talents

24/01 | Kustendorf 2020

Radu Jude finishes Uppercase Print in time for the Berlinale

The film explores the story of a 16-year-old who protested against the communist regime in 1981

24/01 | Production | Funding | Romania

Interviews

UniFrance’s new managing director, Daniela Elstner, examines the new challenges involved in promoting French cinema abroad in a rapidly changing distribution context

We chatted with the director of the Solothurn Film Festival, Anita Hugi, about the strengths of a gathering which is so crucial to Swiss film

We talked to Dr Huw Jones, lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton, about how he developed Moving Docs’ survey on documentary audiences in Europe

We chatted to the artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival, Jonas Holmberg, to discuss plans for the gathering, both big and small

We spoke to Serbian filmmaker Marija Stojnić about her documentary Speak So I Can See You, centred on Radio Belgrade

Cineuropa talked to Marcin Krzyształowicz, director of Mister T., already a subject of some controversy in its home country, Poland, where it is set to be released on Christmas day

Cineuropa braved the snow to talk to director Nathalie Biancheri about Nocturnal at the Les Arcs Film Festival

We met with Biljana Tutorov, founder and head of programme of Women Doc Accelerator, after the vibrant sophomore year of the initiative

Interview: Mira Fornay • Director of *Cook, F**k, Kill*

“There is no logic in hurting someone you love”

Cineuropa talked to Slovakian director Mira Fornay, who is about to show her third feature, Cook, F**k, Kill, at the IFFR

23/01 | IFFR 2020 | Voices

France’s tax credits are producing extremely positive results

The CNC has unveiled its annual report on the regional impact of film, audiovisual and international tax credits, which prove very positive for activity and jobs

23/01 | Production | Funding | France

Domestic feature Women on the Run crushes US imports at the Czech box office

2019 was another record-breaking year for Czech movie theatres, and the charts were topped by a home-grown rom-com

23/01 | Box Office | Czech Republic

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

La fortalezaby Jorge Thielen Armand
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition

Kala azar
by Janis Rafa
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition

Nasir
by Arun Karthick
Rotterdam 2020 - Tigers Competition

The Year of the Discovery
by Luis López Carrasco
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition

Charter
by Amanda Kernell
Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Industry Reports

03/12/2019

The 13th IDFA DocLab new-media programme announces its winners

Prizes for Best Digital Storytelling and Best Immersive Non-fiction Experience were awarded to the crème de la crème of this year’s projects at IDFA DocLab

26/11/2019

God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya wins the first Arab Critics’ Award for European Films

The joint initiative between European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Center, aiming to promote European cinema to the Arab world, handed out its award at the Cairo Film Festival

29/10/2019

Europa Distribution explains why together is better at Rome's MIA

The network held its 13th Annual Conference during Rome's market, gathering around sixty of its members to discuss the latest evolutions in the European distribution market

Film Reviews

IFFR 2020 - Perspectives - 27/01/2020

Review: The End Will Be Spectacular

Ersin Çelik uses the 100-day resistance campaign in Diyarbakir, which started in November 2015,...

IFFR 2020 - Tiger Competition - 27/01/2020

Review: Kala azar

In her feature debut, Janis Rafa proves you don’t need Mad Max to go post-apocalyptic

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