Emanuele Basso
75 articles available in total starting from 02/09/2021. Last article published on 11/09/2023.
Interview: Zacharias Mavroeidis • Director of The Summer With Carmen
"For queer people, friends stand in for their families in many different ways"
VENICE 2023: The Greek director discusses his queer comedy that talks about cinema and the rules of storytelling, where the main characters are two friends who intent on writing a film of their lives
Interview: Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night
"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"
VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what happened
Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage
"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"
VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour
Interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World
"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"
VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to live?”
Interview: Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound
"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"
VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in the faces of strangers