Camilla Zurru

At this year’s Dublin International Film Festival, an unglamorous truth about the film circuit surfaced early: most films don’t fail because they aren’t good enough, they fail because they don’t fit. Hosted by aemi and moderated by co-director Alice Butler, the conversation with programmer Annina Wettstein peeled back the mythology of festival selection, revealing a process that is as strategic as it is subjective. Zurich-based Annina Wettstein has built a career that moves fluidly across the...

Orphan, original title: “Àrva” (2025, László Nemes) Budapest, 1957. Since the end of World War II, Hungary has been under a Communist regime, the Hungarian People’s Republic, subordinate to the USSR. In the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, those who took part in the rebellion against the regime in Budapest are now being persecuted. Andor Hirsch is a twelve-year-old boy. He spent the first years of his life in an orphanage while his father was sent to a concentration camp and his...

At the end of his tenure Mariano De Santis, an imaginary President of Italy, confronts the moral and political legacy of his career. A meticulous man of law, Mariano must decide whether to finally sign a law that has been a decades-long controversy: the law of euthanasia. La Grazia (“Grace”) premiered at 2025 Venice Film Festival. It’s Paolo Sorrentino’s 11th feature film and 7th collaboration with actor Tony Servillo who was awarded the Coppa Volpi at Venice for this role. After The Hand...