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13 articles available in total starting from 29/07/2008. Last article published on 05/09/2008.

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Corsicato turns pop in Il seme della discordia

Seven years after the commercial failure of Chimera, Pappi Corsicato returns to the big screen with Il seme della discordia (“The Seed of Discord”), the last Italian title presented in competition...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland

Malek is a surveyor; he measures places and borders, calculates distances and symbolically marks out the geopolitical lines of territories. In Inland – whose original title, Gabbla, means...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Algeria-France

Kafkaesque atmosphere in Schroeter’s That Night

A first-time contender for the Golden Lion (although a regular at international festivals and former award-winner at the Berlinale with Palermo or Wolfsburg), Germany’s Werner Schroeter presents...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

Haile Gerima returns to the past to look to the future

African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Ethiopia-Germany-France

Bechis explores land of dispossessed in Birdwatchers

"We just want a chance to survive". Eliane Juca da Silva didn’t hold back the tears before journalists who had just applauded Marco Bechis’s film Birdwatchers. Eliane stars in the film and belongs...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Venice’s got Milk

Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Milk, the second part in a proposed trilogy, is the Turkish feature in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. The co-production between Turkey,...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

Nostalgia and psychological horror in Avati’s Giovanna’s Father

Love and friendship are the "background noise" (in the director’s own words) to the films of Pupi Avati, who turns 70 in three months. On the Lido, the director presents Giovanna’s Father, which...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition | Italy

The Other One: The magical number two

After Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, the second French film in competition at the Venice Film Festival is appropriately titled The Other One. The film is also the second feature for the cinema by...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Ferzan Ozpetek’s destructive love

The first Italian film to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Ferzan Ozpetek’s A Perfect Day – adapted from Melania Mazzucco’s eponymous novel – is pure tragedy. An intense love...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

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