Tag: Mati Diop
2025 Cinema Eye Honors: No Other Land Takes Best Feature, Mati Diop Wins Best Direction
Last year’s top two documentary titles from the Berlinale continue there winning ways landing the top prizes at last night's Cinema Eye Honors. Docus...
2024 European Film Awards: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scoops Up Four Awards
Except perhaps Souleymane's Story's Abou Sangare biking away with the European Actor award (beating out Conclave's Ralph Fiennes) there were no surprises at last...
2024 Prix Louis Delluc Awards: Miséricorde, Dahomey & Les Fantômes Nominated
It's awards season in France as well with today belonging to the Prix Louis Delluc awards. It's only a two category event, but it...
Dahomey | Review
Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation
The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...
2024 TIFF: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet, Pedro Almodóvar & Maura Delpero Land in Toronto
Filmmaker Brady Corbet will have to schlep twenty-six reels from Venice Italy to Toronto's Pearson Airport as The Brutalist is confirmed as part of...
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Last year's Un Certain Regard was a vintage year. A trio of films in Return to Seoul, Corsage and Godland could have easily been...
Both Sides of the Blade | Review
Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama
Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #13. Claire Denis’ Avec amour et acharnement (aka Feu)
Avec amour et acharnement (Both Sides of the Blade)
Produced by Curiosa Films' Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis, Christine Angot
Starring: Juliette Binoche,...
2020 Giornate degli Autori: Anouz’s Honey Cigar Opens & LaBruce’s Saint-Narcisse Closes Edition
Often referred to as the Italian version of the Directors' Fortnight, the first edition of the Giornate degli Autori / Venice Days under the...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Mati Diop’s Atlantique
Technically speaking, Atlantique is the other feature debut in the main comp. With filmmaking in her family blood, Mati Diop the face is recognizable via Claire Denis'...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #90. Fire Next Time (La Prochaine fois le feu) – Mati Diop
Fire Next Time (La Prochaine fois le feu)
The highest ranking directorial debut on our countup, actress Mati Diop moves behind the camera in her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #100. Mati Diop’s The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
Our only directorial debut in the top 100, actress Mati Diop moves behind the camera in her long-gestating project, The Fire...
Hermia & Helena | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review
Like so many other filmmakers from around the world, the Buenos Aires born writer/director Matías Piñeiro has found himself straddling borders with his latest...
Interview: Mati Diop (Simon Killer)
Hailing from a family of filmmakers and musicians it’s easy to see why Antonio Campos found such a strong collaborator in Mati Diop. A...
