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First joint Hungary-Vietnam romance film debuts

Pustnik’s third development residency of the year – part of the Pustnik Screenwriting Network – will take place from October 9th to 16th. Five writers...

Family matters: Jacqueline Lentzou’s drama thrives on the emotional weather systems that form when a grown child revisits an empty nest

Paul Thomas Anderson read one of her early scripts and told Jacqueline Lentzou: “Go do it.” Now she’s made her debut feature, the tale of a shifting father-daughter bond set over a long, hot summer.

Cineuropa is republishing this Talking Shorts review as part of our new collaboration (read news). It is tempting to reduce the aesthetic of Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou, who has been a household name in the short film circuit for a few years now, as meandering or wavering. After all, her work tends to flow about, chasing textures, or the impulses and outbursts of her protagonists, more than plot or narrative logic. Her interests clearly lie in the way sunlight hits a dirty window, its re...

film profile]), after he first went missing and then was mysteriously found days later, dehydrated in his car with no recollection of what had happened. The shock seems to have kickstarted multiple sclerosis, so now the former basketball player can hardly walk or even control his muscles. Paris lives in a house that “he decided to build in the middle of nowhere”, as one of his siblings puts it. This group of people with their spouses and kids, accompanied by Paris’s mother, sits at a tab...