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224 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 21/09/2026.

Lucie Prost • Director of Fario

Interview: Lucie Prost • Director of Fario

“It took me a while to find the right level of wonder and fantasy that would fit this story organically”

The French director breaks down the tonal shifts in her film, and the psychological work that goes into depicting masculinity and trauma  

20/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Saulė Bliuvaitė • Director of Toxic

Interview: Saulė Bliuvaitė • Director of Toxic

“When you're 13, you still haven't said goodbye to your toys: you play with Barbies, even though you also smoke cigarettes”

The Golden Leopard-winning Lithuanian director tells us more about her story of two girls who try to make a better life for themselves by enrolling in a modelling school  

20/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

Interview: Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

“I think the world is divided into two categories: the oppressors and the oppressed”

With his third feature, the Tunisian director expands on the political themes of liberation and resistance through animal dreams  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

Interview: Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

“The goal was to avoid saying what I think is good or bad, or pointing a finger”

The British director breaks down how he employed a mix of static and home-video aesthetics to ask important moral questions in his new film  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

Interview: Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

"The possibility of radically changing your life after a loss has to do with memory"

The experienced editor and producer tells us about her debut feature as director and the connection between memories and cinema  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

"Oftentimes, you look at cinema and it's all about content, or all about the form, but I want them to work together in order to create a universe"

The British filmmaker tells us about his interest in repetition, as evidenced in his latest film, and his editing process  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

Interview: Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

"We wanted to make a moving film, instead of being critical or distant"

The Catalan filmmaker discusses her newest film, a genre-bending look at postpartum depression and the irrational aspects of motherhood  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

Interview: Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

“Marianna Fontana's face is the film's landscape”

The directing duo talks to Cineuropa about the film's spectacular lead and the archetypal figure she plays  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Luce

Review: Luce

The second film by directing duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino stars a wondrous Marianna Fontana as a young woman sublimating the loss of her father  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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