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A still from ‘Cotton Queen’ by Suzannah Mirghani, which will screen in Critics’ Week in Venice

Doha Film Institute Venice-bound films include the stunning 'Cotton Queen' by Suzannah Mirghani and Kaouther Ben Hania's Competition title 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'

E. Nina Rothe August 14, 2025

Other titles supported by the respected Qatari cinematic organization include Jihan K’s personal doc on the disappearance of her father during the Qaddafi regime, Cyril Aris’ ‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ starring Mounia Akl, which will be screening in the Official Selection and Giornate degli Autori lineups, respectively, along with Sofia Alaoui’s sci-fi fable ‘Tarfaya’ which participates in the Venice Production Bridge.

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In Features, Film, Film Festivals Tags Doha Film Institute, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Qatar, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Cheikh N’Diaye, The Missing Camel, Tarfaya, Sofia Alaoui, Sound of Silence, Morocco, Joyce A. Nashawati, Venice Production Bridge, The Station/Al Mahatta, Yemen, Lebanon, Sara Ishaq, Mariam Al-Dhubhani, Final Cut in Venice, Yanis Koussim, Critics’ Week, Settimana della Critica, Roqia, Cotton Queen, Lana Daher, Do You Love Me, Cyril Aris, Giornate degli Autori, A Sad and Beautiful World, Memory, Chechen, Vladlena Sandu, My Father and Qaddafi, Lybia, Libya, USA, Suzannah Mirghani, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hani, Competition, MENA region, Mounia Akl
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Paolo Sorrentino by © Michael Avedon, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia' (Grace) will open this year's Venice Film Fest

E. Nina Rothe July 7, 2025

And I’ll tell you why I’m excited, plus reveal a bit of the story and where it will take place.

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In Film, Film Festivals Tags Paolo Sorrentino, La Grazia, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Fremantle Film, The Apartment, PiperFilm, Mubi, The Match Factory, Alberto Barbera, Michael Avedon, Turin, Accademia delle Scienze, Giovannino Galliari, Sala dei Mappamondi, Napoli, Parthenope, La Grande Bellezza, Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Academy Awards
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Peace is a co-production: Amos Gitai, Irene Jacob and Micha Lescot talk 'Why War' in Venice

E. Nina Rothe September 6, 2024

In his latest film, a crucial masterpiece titled ‘Why War’, Amos Gitai reminds us of an exchange of letters between Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, and Albert Einstein, the scientific genius. If only we’d listen to these brilliant men.

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In Features, Film, Interviews Tags A, Amos Gitai, Micha Lescot, Mathieu Amalric, Venice Film festival, Israel, Palestine, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Irene Jacob, Tel Aviv, Europe, Middle East, House, Barbican, London, Jérôme Kircher, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Shikun, Olivier Assayas’s Hors du Temps, Malaise dans la civilisation, Virginia Woolf, The Three Guineas, Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Un point lumière flou, Evgenia Rudenko’s & Alexander Plank, The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, The Jewish War, Josephus Flavius, Maurice Ravel Kaddish, Benjamin Britten War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae - Lacrimosa dies illa, Alexey Kochetkov, Lament for Yitzhak, Aurora Sonora, Late Night Impro, Ernst Bloch, Schelomo, Louis Sclavis Kyoomars Musayyebi Simon, Markus Stockhausen, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice International Film Festival
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Venice Orizzonti opening film 'Nonostante' by Valerio Mastandrea is an ode to love and loss

E. Nina Rothe September 1, 2024

It’s not often that a film changes the chemistry of my beliefs. ‘Nonostante’ which in English is called ‘Feeling Better’ is one of those films and I’m better for watching it — also after interviewing its talented filmmaker and star.

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In Film, Features, Interviews Tags Nonostante, Valerio Mastandrea, Dolores Fonzi, Orizzonti film, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia
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'Why War' may be Amos Gitai's most important film to date and will screen at this year's Venice Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe July 24, 2024

For a man whose personal mission has been to “build bridges through cinema,” as he told La Repubblica newspaper in an interview just published this week, his latest film may prove the most important peace-making link yet.

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In Film, Features, Film Festivals Tags Amos Gitai, Why War, Israel, Palestine, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, cinema, films, documentary, Shikun, Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Kyoomars Musayyebi, Alexey Kochetkov, Louis Sclavis, Eric Gautier, Yuval Orr, Albert Einstein, Alberto Barbera, Sigmund Freud, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot, Irène Jacob, Yael Abecassis, Keren Mor, J. Richard Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, League of Nations, war
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Venice Film Festival line up includes latest from Amos Gitai, Scandar Copti, Pedro Almodóvar, plus a series from Alfonso Cuarón, Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer' and Pablo Larraín's 'Maria'

E. Nina Rothe July 23, 2024

All wrapped up with the Lady Gaga starrer ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, Tunisian gem ‘Aïcha’ by Mehdi Barsaoui and ‘Wolfs’ starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt — talk about a festival for the stars!

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In Features, Film, Film Festivals Tags Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Amos Gitai, Scandar Copti, Pedro Almodovar, Pablo Larrain, Alfonso Cuaron, Why War, Lorenzo Mattotti, Queer, Luca Guadagnino, Joker: Folie à Deux, Aicha, Mehdi Barsaoui, Wolfs, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Alberto Barbera, Happy Holidays, Göran Hugo Olsson, Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, Iddu, Delphine and Muriel Coulin, The Quiet Son, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, And Their Children After Them, Songs of Slow Burning Earth, Ukraine, Russia, Olha Zhurba, Russians at War, Anastasia Trofimova, Nicolas Winding Refn, Beauty is not a Sin, Allégorie citadine, Alice Rohrwacher, JR, Leos Carax, yna Khoudri, Cannes, Qumra, Plato, Marco Bellocchio, Se posso permettermi Capitolo II, Bobbio Film Festival, Maria, Angelina Jolie, Maria Callas, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodovár, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, William S. Burroughs, Daniel Craig, Jason Schwartzman, Cinecittà, Toni Servillo Elio Germano, Matteo Messina Denaro, The Order, Justin Kurzel, Jude Law, Tye Sheridan, Todd Phillips, Catherine Keener, Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Diva Futura, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt, ietro Castellito, Riccardo Schicchi, Ciccionlina, One To One: John & Yoko, Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, Asif Kapadia, 2073, Samantha Morton, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuar, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Families Like Ours, Thomas Vinterberg, M: Il figlio del secolo film, Joe Wright, Luca Marinelli, Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo, Pavement, Alex Ross Perry, Michael Esper, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, September 5, Tim Fehlbaum
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Olmo Schnabel talks directing 'Pet Shop Days', dual identities & laws of attraction

E. Nina Rothe September 5, 2023

Olmo Schnabel’s directorial debut is everything you could wish for in a film, from a man with such an impressive background — artist and filmmaker Julian is his dad and mom is Spanish actress Olatz López Garmendia — but also someone who is perfectly at ease with both his American and Spanish sides. And refreshingly believes life is best when lived outside the boxes of convention.

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In Film, Interviews, Film Festivals Tags Olmo Schnabel, Pet Shop Days, Pet Shop Boys, New York stories, Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti Extra, Jack Irv, Jack Irving, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Galen Core, New York story, Mexico, Olatz López Garmendia, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Mollá, Louis Cancelmi, Willem Dafoe, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Sarsgaard, La Biennale di Venezia, Martin Scorsese, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Michel Franco
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A Tramway in Jerusalem

“A collector of contradictions”: Amos Gitai takes us on a voyage of thinking with ‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’

E. Nina Rothe September 14, 2018

“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.” — Albert Camus from ‘Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays’

As I watched Amos Gitai’s latest ‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’ with the usual anticipation I dedicate to all the works of the visionary Israeli filmmaker, I looked for the funny. After all, Gitai himself, in his director’s notes called Tramway “an optimistic and ironic metaphor of the divided city of Jerusalem”. In the synopsis of the film, the word “comedy” is used yet when I watched ‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’, more than once, I cried. Long, perfectly needed tears. The film world premiered out of competition at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. 

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In Film, Interviews Tags Amos Gitai, A Tramway in Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem, Mathieu Amalric, Hanna Laszlo, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Yael Abecassis, Pippo Delbono, Menahem Lang, sherut, A Letter to a Friend in Gaza, Gaza, Michael Moore, Roberto Minervini, Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Rabin, Albert Camus, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 75
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PHOTO BY LORENZO PIERMATTEITrine Dyrholm in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s ‘Nico 1988’

PHOTO BY LORENZO PIERMATTEI

Trine Dyrholm in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s ‘Nico 1988’

Talking ‘Nico 1988’ with Susanna Nicchiarelli and Trine Dyrholm

E. Nina Rothe April 25, 2018

From a haunting first image of Christa Päffgen portrayed as a child watching Berlin burn in the distance with her mother at the end of the Second World War, to the core of her film ‘Nico 1988’ which concentrates on the last three years of the rockstar’s life, filmmaker Susanna Nicchiarelli keeps us, her audience, spellbound. ‘Nico 1988’ opened the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and for me, the event started then and there, with this touching, moving, electrifying yet perfectly human masterpiece.

The life of Nico went from teenage model to Velvet Underground singer and Andy Warhol muse, to, as the artist himself famously stated, becoming “a fat junkie” and disappearing — all in the blink of an eye. Yet when the world wanted her to go away, as they do with pretty women once they turn, eh hum... older, say thirty, Nico found her second wind. She dyed her hair, started wearing head to toe black and became the original mistress of darkness, crooning songs about her existence that still send shivers down every woman’s spine, they are so true to life!

The film screens the weekend of April 26th in NYC, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Book tickets on the TFF website. 

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In Film, Interviews Tags Susanna Nicchiarelli, Trine Dyrholm, Nico 1988, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Christa Päffgen, Berlin, Velvet Underground, model, Andy Warhol, Factory girl
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A still from ‘Human’ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

A still from ‘Human’ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Cinema with a Conscience”: Five Movies that Changed My Life

E. Nina Rothe February 11, 2018

We’ve all experienced the positive power of cinema. It is that moment, at the end of a movie, right before the lights come back on and as the credits roll by, when we feel we can change the world. We feel invigorated, wish to do better, want to be better and walk out of the theater with a new spring in our step. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, that energy, the magic of the movies, stays with us in our daily lives and continues to inspire a change that can become momentous.

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In Film Tags Human, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinema with a conscience, Batman, Loving, Jeff Nichols, Moonlight, Oscar, Midnight Special, Berlinale, Richard and Mildred Loving, Civil Rights struggle, 1967, Caramel, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, Arab cinema, Beirut, Beauty salon, Middle East, Taxi, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman, Tehran, Iran, Iranian cinema, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Oscar-nominated, documentary, James Baldwin, America, Samuel L. Jackson, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Humanity
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PHOTO BY GIORA BEJACHLior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler in still from Samuel Maoz’s ‘Foxtrot’

PHOTO BY GIORA BEJACH

Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler in still from Samuel Maoz’s ‘Foxtrot’

Talking ‘Foxtrot’ with Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler and Samuel Maoz in Venice

E. Nina Rothe February 10, 2018

In a great film, there is always a moment when things change — that instance when the viewer is caught off guard, and left with an indelible feeling to take home. I consider it the cinematic equivalent of that famous Maya Angelou quote “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Personally speaking, a truly successful movie is one where that moment remains with me, hours later, casting a spell over my heart and soul. 

Samuel Maoz’s ‘Foxtrot’ is that film. More than twelve hours after watching it at the Venice Film Festival where it is featured in the main Competition section, I’m still only barely able to process it emotionally. Even though the filmmaker created an artful, visually stunning, sonically powerful, perfectly acted, intellectually stimulating and utterly entertaining film — I can just remember how it made me feel. I doubt I will ever forget actually.

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In Film, Interviews Tags Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Israel, Israeli cinema, film, Oscar entry, soldiers, war, Tel Aviv
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