Tag: Alain Gomis

Dao | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Family Rituals: Gomis Goes For Broke in Sprawling Epic With his first narrative feature in nearly a decade, French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis formulates a complex...

You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners

YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...

2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

In the inaugural year of his mandate, Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine des cinéastes) Artistic Director Julien Rejl could point to Caméra d'Or Award winning...

2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Harmony Korine

So here we are. The programming teams headed by Artistic Directors Gaia Furrer (Giornate degli Autori), Beatrice Fiorentino (Settimana Internazionale della Critica) and Alberto...

2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...

Basket of Deplorables? Ladj Ly’s “Indésirables” & Alain Guiraudie’s “Miséricorde” in the Works

He already had a firm sophomore project in the works when he was fielding questions back in 2019 at the Cannes press conference for...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...