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Muriel Del Don


504 articles available in total starting from 24/03/2014. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

Interview: Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

“I chose to adapt Poem Strip because it offered the opportunity to bring together all of the techniques I have refined over the years”

VENICE 2025: The debuting Italian director talks to us about his love of cinema, and about the personal memories that influenced his film  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Orfeo

Review: Orfeo

VENICE 2025: Virgilio Villoresi’s debut feature throws us into an at once fascinating and terrifying world where the magic of cinema imbues every image  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Short Summer

Review: Short Summer

VENICE 2025: Nastia Korkia’s first fiction feature paints a poetic portrait of a childhood spent in the shadows of a war which stubbornly insinuates its way into everyday life  

01/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2025

At Locarno, Swiss Films presented previews of six features scheduled for release between late 2025 and early 2026, ranging from fictionalised biography to social critique  

22/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

Review: The Plant from the Canaries

Review: The Plant from the Canaries

Ruan Lan-Xi’s first feature film is an elegant and ethereal portrait of a woman who seems to glide through the city she’s getting to know, like a skater across an icy lake  

15/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

Interview: Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

“A sisterly relationship developed between us and our screenwriter, feeding into a screenplay which we see as feminist rather than feminine”

The two Italian directors spoke to us with infectious joy about what drove them to tell a story both personal – based on their childhood - and universal  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Mosquitoes

Review: Mosquitoes

Valentina and Nicole Bertani’s first film is a punk and queer ode to the 1990s and a portrait of a group of girls who’ve decided to tell their own story and dictate their own rules  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Solomamma

Review: Solomamma

Janicke Askevold’s second feature speaks of an alternative kind of motherhood which breaks the rules set by a patriarchal society intent on controlling everything  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Mare’s Nest

Review: Mare’s Nest

Ben Rivers delivers an ode to the reckless and carefree nature of childhood in this poetic and enigmatic portrait of an array of characters dancing towards an unknown destination  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: The Dead of Winter

Review: The Dead of Winter

Brian Kirk transports the audience to the snowy plains of Minnesota where the uncontaminated countryside forming the backdrop to his characters’ lives hides unanticipated dangers  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

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