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172 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

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

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

Interview: Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”

The Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the French Revolution  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Sarajevo rounds off this year’s CineLink Drama selection

Sarajevo rounds off this year’s CineLink Drama selection

The full list of ten drama-series projects set to be presented during Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days later this month has now been revealed  

06/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | CineLink Industry Days

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