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“A quarter to Thursday”, interview with the director, Sofia Djama
“A Quarter to Thursday” in Final Cut in Venice: interview with director Sophia Djama
A Quarter to Thursday by Algerian screenwriter and director Sophia Djama, is one of the six feature films selected at the 14th edition of Final Cut in Venice 2026, the program of Venice Film Festival and Venice Production Bridge that supports film in post-production from all African countries and six countries of the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen).
Sophia Djama is a filmmaker whose work explores surrealist worlds and political themes. With A Quarter to Thursday, she...
“Eldorado, the taste of the South”, interview with producer, Francesca Duca
“Eldorado, the taste of the South” interview with producer Francesca Duca
Francesca Duca, producer (from Le Moindre Geste) of Eldorado, the taste of the South by Tunisian director and screenwriter Alaa Eddine Aljem. Eldorado, the taste of the South is one of the six feature films selected at the 14th edition of Final Cut in Venice 2026, the program of Venice Film Festival and Venice Production Bridge that supports film in post-production from all African countries and six countries of the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen).
Eldorado, the tast...
“Mehal Sefari”, interview with producer Tamara Mariam Dawit
Ethiopia enters Final Cut in Venice for the first time with “Mehal Sefari”
Tamara Mariam Dawit, producer from Gobez Media, and acclaimed Ethiopian director Abraham Gezahagne, are the creative team behind the film Mehal Sefari, which is one of the six feature films selected at the 14th edition of Final Cut in Venice 2026, the program of Venice Film Festival and Venice Production Bridge that supports film in post-production from all African countries and six countries of the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen).
Mehal Sefari is the first proj...
“Ink”, interview with director Danny Boyle
Ink, the film that opens the 83rd Venice International Film Festival 2026 in official competition, tells the story of The Sun, the British tabloid launched in 1969 by Rupert Murdoch and Larry Lamb. “1969: the year we first walked on the moon, and the year Rupert Murdoch and Larry Lamb launched a newspaper that was to change the world far more,” says director Danny Boyle, who describes it as born to become “a new tabloid that, against all the odds, became the biggest-selling newspaper in the world”: “cheeky, irreverent, daring… the ‘super soaraway’ Sun challenged the establishment an...
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”, interview with director Jane Schoenbrun
Presented in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2026 and arriving in Italian theaters via MUBI from August 19, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is the new film from Jane Schoenbrun, the American director behind We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. Schoenbrun talks about making a film from the other side of transition, the joyful chaos of horror, and how a childhood spent making homemade slasher movies and writing fan fiction became the key to remaking shame into liberation.
A first post-transition film
Schoenbrun describes the...
“Atcha Atcha”, interview with director Mamadou Dia
Mamadou Dia returns to Locarno 79 with “Atcha Atcha” out of Competition
After winning Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present in 2019 with his first feature , senegalese director Mamadou Dia returns to the 79° Locarno Film Festival 2026 with he documentary “Atcha Atcha”, screened out of competition.
“Atcha Atcha” was also developed inside Final Cut in Venice 2025, where it won the prize offered by Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).
L’École des Sables in Senegal and Germaine Acogny
“Achacha Atcha” is a phrase used in local languages like Wolof to mean “let’s go”: it serves as a symbol f...
“Paris Paris”, an interview with director Isabelle Tollenaere
Belgian filmmaker Isabelle Tollenaere, already known and acclaimed at major festivals for her highly poetic hybrid documentaries exploring “the interplay between the rapid transformation of our physical world and the human experience of time and memory”, such as Battles (2015) and Victoria (2020), has just presented her first scripted feature film, a docufiction suggestively titled Paris Paris, in the Proxima Competition of the 60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July 3-11, 2026).
This work – another beautiful and deeply moving expression of her fascination with places and their constant transformation in resonance with the individuals inhabiting them, and with what traces they leave...
“Hijamat”, an interview with director Nader Saeivar
After premiering his first feature (Namo, 2020) at the Berlinale, his second (The End, 2022) in Busan, and collecting the Audience Award in Venice with the third (The Witness, 2024), acclaimed Berlin-based Iranian filmmaker Nader Saeivar celebrated the premiere of Hijamat, his fourth feature as a director, Czech style, at the 60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July 3-11, 2026).
The narrative pace and style of this contender for the Crystal Globe, set in Berlin amongst a rather instantly claustrophobic Turkish community presenting a boisterous mosaic of stifling religion-related conundrums, clearly bears the signature which has earned Saeivar international recognition as a...
“A Happy Family”, an interview with director Jan-Eric Mack and co-writer and actress Anna Schinz
Director Jan-Eric Mack and co-writer and actress Anna Schinz met us during the 60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July 3-11, 2026) to talk about the former’s first solo feature, A Happy Family, the first ever Swiss film to run for the prestigious Crystal Globe.
This story of a struggling single mother, covered in debts and juggling several menial jobs which distract her from properly taking care of her two children despite her best efforts, which then leads social services to entrust the kids to a temporary foster family on the other side of the country, owed Anna Sc...
“3 Weeks After”, an interview with director Miroslav Terzić
Serbian director Miroslav Terzić has just premiered his third feature, 3 Weeks After, in the Crystal Globe Competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2026.
This relentlessly cruel story about bullying, at once fascinating and hard to watch, implacable and extremely layered, deeply anchored in reality and allegorical in its very striking and masterful aesthetics, garnered the Europa Cinemas Label.
The jury, unanimously “captivated right from the first shot and until the very end”, was impressed by the “remarkably strong and authentic performance” delivered by the ensemble cast, the choice of portraying the lives of “adolescents today through the...
“The Lion at My Back”, an interview with director Tonia Mishiali
Eight years after the premiere of Pause, her debut feature (after several internationally acclaimed shorts, followed by a few more after Pause), at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (East of the West Competition), Tonia Mishiali was back at the Czech event 2026 with her second feature-length movie, The Lion at My Back, this time vying for the Crystal Globe, and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
We met the Cypriot director to discuss further this work, announced as the second instalment of a trilogy exploring the role of women in modern-day society, where the thoughtful...
“Only Beautiful Things to Look At”, an interview with director Ivan Ostrochovský and producer Katarína Tomková
This year at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2026, not only was Ivan Ostrochovský selected in the main competition with Only Beautiful Things to Look At, his third fiction feature after Goat (2015) and Servants (2020, chosen as the Slovak candidate for the Oscars), but he also world-premiered, amongst the Special screenings of the Classics section, his new documentary, Igor and After, dedicated to visionary Czechoslovak cinematographer Igor Luther (who worked with Juraj Jakubisko, Volker Schlöndorff on his Palme d’or winner The Tin Drum, and Andrzej Wajda on Danton, amongst others).
He also produced the winner of the Spec...
“Black Money for White Nights”, an interview with directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov bring their fifth feature film to the main competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2026, where they won the Crystal Globe for The Father in 2019. With Black Money for White Nights, the Bulgarian directing duo, also known for their ‘newspaper clippings’ trilogy, which started with their internationally acclaimed debut 2014 The Lesson (followed by Glory in 2016 and completed with “Triumph” in 2024), they offer the type of cruel social satire they have become known for – paired with a moral tale where money plays a major role, and a breathless race from one hurdle to the next, all the whi...
