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Giorgia Del Don


442 articles available in total starting from 12/03/2014. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

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

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Ramon and Silvan Zürcher • Director and producer of The Sparrow in the Chimney

Interview: Ramon and Silvan Zürcher • Director and producer of The Sparrow in the Chimney

"We often associate destruction with something negative, but sometimes it’s necessary for something healthy to take root"

The Swiss duo expand on their artistic universe, their passion for still-life, and cinema as a means for experimenting with alternative family ties  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Skill Issue

Review: Skill Issue

German director Willy Hans treats us to a profound and atmospheric first feature film, following a group of young adults grappling with the difficulty of connecting with one another  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

Interview: Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

"A lot of Irish women are very polite in public but, internally, they are screaming, they are funny, irreverent and sometimes rude and it is so refreshing"

We met with the Irish director whose latest film, starring two amazing female characters, is about inherited trauma and how we deal with it  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Electric Child

Review: Electric Child

Swiss director Simon Jaquemet explores the highly topical theme of AI and its seductive potential, whilst placing particular focus on the fears it incites  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Review: Real

Review: Real

In her second feature, Italian director Adele Tulli explores the frightening implications and astonishing potential of the digital world in which we’re immersed on an everyday basis  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: The Sparrow in the Chimney

Review: The Sparrow in the Chimney

This time directing solo, Ramon Zürcher enchants us with his unmistakeable style, treating us to a dark film that questions ideas about heteronormative families  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: The Last Ashes

Review: The Last Ashes

The debut feature by Luxembourgish director Loïc Tanson takes us back in time to 1854 to tell a wholly female story of revenge  

15/07/2024 | NIFFF 2024

Locarno announces its competition selection

Locarno announces its competition selection

16 of the 17 films vying for the Golden Leopard are European (co-)productions by established auteurs such as Wang Bing and Ben Rivers and emerging talents like the Zürcher brothers and Virgil Vernier  

10/07/2024 | Locarno 2024

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