Feature Films - Cinema Jove

Norika Sefa (Looking for Venera): “When you work with non-actors there’s this perpetual chance for surprises “

18/06/2021 Feature Films

In her first film, the Kosovar director Norika Sefa builds a robust, lively and powerful drama around the gaze and adolescent problems of her characters.

Interview to Cristiane Oliveira, (The FirsT Death of Joana): “The story of Joana came from a wish to talk about the courage to be who you really are in the face of the everyday violence one experiences when going through this process”

17/06/2021 Feature Films

In the last days of summer 2007, a teenager called Joana tries to understand why her great-aunt has died at 70 years old without ever

Interview to Ferit Karahan (Brother’s Keeper): “There are very few education systems in the world that promote creativity and independence”

16/06/2021 Feature Films

Ferit Karahan set his second feature film, Brother’s Keeper, in a boarding school in Eastern Anatolia. In this isolated environment, the director carries out a

Interview to Ann Sirot and Raphäel Balboni (Madly in Life): “We want to pass along the rich and joyful journey that the care of a sick person can be, beyond sadness and fatigue “

14/06/2021 Feature Films

Anne Sirot and Raphaël Balboni (selected at Cinema Jove 2019 with the short Avec Thelma) make their debut in feature film with a bittersweet story

Interview with Moara Passoni, director of ‘Ecstasy’: “We live in a brutally anorexic world”

08/06/2021 Feature Films

Brazilian director Moara Passoni presents a dreamlike and autobiographical project about anorexia in her debut feature, Êxtase. The film is a coming-of-age between fiction and

Cinema Jove shows on big screen the coming-of-age in countries such as Russia, Brazil, Turkey and Ukraine

31/05/2021 Feature Films

The festival programs nine films in competition from Turkey, Denmark, Russia, Brazil, Greece, Australia, North Macedonia and Ukraine The selection refers to political issues such