Tag: Semih Gulen

New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...

2023 World Cinema Fund (WCF): Lucía Garibaldi, Nara Normande + Tião & Abinash Bikram Shah Receive Coin

Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi (who premiered The Sharks at Sundance in 2019), Abinash Bikram Shah (short film winner in Cannes 2022), Burak Cevik (one...

2023 Hubert Bals Fund+Europe: Payal Kapadia, Abinash Bikram Shah & Kim Torres Among Recipients of New Fund

Hubert Bals Fund now have the HBF+Europe fund which supports post-production support backing of the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme, allowing for four projects...

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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...