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66 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 25/03/2024.

Aktan Arym Kubat • Director of This Is What I Remember

Interview: Aktan Arym Kubat • Director of This Is What I Remember

“Garbage is a consequence of human activity and originates in the mind”

The Kyrgyz helmer provides insights into the local context around his film and explains key metaphors that accompany its message  

28/04/2023 | goEast 2023

At Cartoon Next, Bartosz Sztybor talks about the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and working with US writers and Japanese studios

At Cartoon Next, Bartosz Sztybor talks about the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and working with US writers and Japanese studios

The CD Projekt Red representative shared the joys and the pains of developing the franchise as well as the lessons learnt by working with Japan’s Studio Trigger  

19/04/2023 | Cartoon 2023 | Cartoon Next

Miguel Gomes’ new feature Grand Tour in production in Italy

Miguel Gomes’ new feature Grand Tour in production in Italy

Set in the late 1910s, the Portuguese filmmaker’s new endeavour stars Gonçalo Waddington and Crista Alfaiate in the leading roles  

15/03/2023 | Production | Funding | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/China/Japan

Nicolas Philibert • Director of On The Adamant

Interview: Nicolas Philibert • Director of On The Adamant

"The film aims to change the image and representations we often associate with 'madness'"

BERLINALE 2023: The famous French documentary-maker discusses his work centred on The Adamant, a very unique day hospital in a boat moored on a quay in Paris  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Review: On the Adamant

Review: On the Adamant

BERLINALE 2023: Nicolas Philibert dismantles prejudice with a brilliant, tender and exceptionally authentic documentary about disorders of the mind  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Toshiyuki Hasegawa  • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

Interview: Toshiyuki Hasegawa • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

"The requirement for the international competition section is that they are only Japanese premieres"

Toshiyuki Hasegawa talks about the structure of the festival programme, how they finance the events and how they designed the marketing strategies to attract audiences  

14/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

Interview: Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

“To me, a person is basically lonely, despite family or religion or any other community”

VENICE 2022: While dealing with the subject of loneliness, the Japanese writer-director inflicts cruelty on his characters, but also shows them some hope and love  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Love Life

Review: Love Life

VENICE 2022: Rising Japanese maestro Kôji Fukada steps up to his first major festival competition slot with this neatly structured tale of intersecting marriages  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

Interview: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds out she's pregnant, decides to take her destiny into her own hands  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Chie Hayakawa  • Director of Plan 75

Interview: Chie Hayakawa • Director of Plan 75

"There is a feeling of hatred among young people towards elderly in Japanese society, because they think they have to pay for them and won’t get anything back"

CANNES 2022: The Japanese director discusses her first feature, a film of great acuity about the topic of euthanasia which received a Special Mention from the Caméra d'Or jury  

30/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

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