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REPORT: Locarno 2021

Cineuropa is covering the 74th Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2021

64 articles available in total starting from 05/11/2020. Last article published on 24/08/2021.

Review: Secret Name

Review: Secret Name

Presented in Locarno’s International Competition, Aurélia Georges’ third feature film is a poetic work of unsettling classicism tackling the subject of otherness  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

Interview: Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

“We wanted it to be as true to the realities of the Filipino community as possible”

The Greek director tells the intimate story of two Filipino sisters in Greece who have to protect their bond against the outside world  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

Interview: Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

“In my opinion, emotions are transmitted through simplicity”

A charismatic, young actress stars in the French director’s new film, dealing with divorce shown from the perspective of a child  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

Interview: Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

“I wanted to use the handheld camera to be closer to the protagonists and to be able to react spontaneously to the acting”

In her Cineasti del Presente title, the German director follows a young woman on her way to emancipation  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

Interview: Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

“I think the experiences we all have behind us are fascinating”

The Catalonian filmmaker talks to us about her third feature, another fiction-documentary hybrid that is toplined by non-professional actors  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Review: Hinterland

Review: Hinterland

Awarded an Oscar for The Counterfeiters, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky presents his latest film in a world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Piazza Grande

Review: Heavens Above

Review: Heavens Above

Serbian director Srdjan Dragojević's new dark comedy, screening in competition at Locarno, is probably his best film this century  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Review: No One’s With the Calves

Review: No One’s With the Calves

This second feature film by German-Iranian director Sabrina Sarabi explodes the romantic (and decidedly urban) myth of life in the countryside  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: The River

Review: The River

As far as “slow cinema” goes, the latest offering from Lebanon’s Ghassan Salhab just crawls along  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Review: After Blue

Review: After Blue

French director Bertrand Mandico’s second captivating feature film catapults us onto a mysterious, sensual planet where cruelty and beauty duet to the rhythm of a techno beat  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

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