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The Woodcutter Story (Metsurin Tarina)
Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is an eternally optimistic man. The titular woodcutter loses his job when the local mill…
By Selina SondermannSpecial
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Funny Pages
Child actor Owen Kline’s directorial feature debut screened in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes and allowed audiences to…
By Selina Sondermann
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Godland (Vanskabte Land/Volaða Land)
The 19th century draws to an end, when a young priest from Denmark sets out to explore faraway…
By Selina Sondermann
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Sick of Myself
Signe feels invisible. Realising the immediate attention people pay to tragedies, she starts to embellish stories – details…
By Selina Sondermann
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Leila’s Brothers
Heshmat (Saeed Poorsamimi) has four sons and a daughter, and desperately wants to become the patriarch of his…
By Selina Sondermann
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The Worst Ones (Les Pires)
Exuberant audience reactions to The Worst Ones at its premiere in Cannes were already the first indication of…
By Selina Sondermann
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“It doubles the pleasure being both in front and behind the camera”: An interview with Louis Garrel on The Innocent
French actor Louis Garrel is perhaps most readily known for his role in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, or…
By Sarah Bradbury
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“As a homosexual woman, I’ve felt oppressed by society’s violence”: Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru on Rodeo
Rodeo is the feature debut from French writer-director Lola Quivoron, which not only played in the Un Certain…
By Sarah Bradbury
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“It was a really precious process”: An interview with Maksym Nakonechnyi on Butterfly Vision
Director and co-writer Maksym Nakonechnyi’s first feature film, Butterfly Vision follows the plight of Ukrainian soldier Lilya (Rita…
By Andrew Murray
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Stars at Noon
After the screening of Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon at Cannes Film Festival, there was a moment of…
By Andrew Murray