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REPORT: Locarno 2023

Cineuropa is covering the 76th Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2023

74 articles available in total starting from 16/09/2022. Last article published on 28/09/2023.

Dragan Bjelogrlić  • Director of Guardians of the Formula

Interview: Dragan Bjelogrlić • Director of Guardians of the Formula

“The Cold War has never stopped”

The Serbian actor-director’s latest effort is a Cold War-set drama revolving around the first-ever human bone-marrow transplant  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Radu Jude  • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

“It is a very self-reflective film about what images mean and what cinema can be nowadays”

The Romanian helmer breaks down his complex new feature of two halves, which provides witty comments on the digital environment and the altered nature of cinema  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: On the Go

Review: On the Go

Julia de Castro and Marìa Gisèle Royo’s film is a queer, feminist road movie, both hilarious and militant, which urges us to tackle life head-on without fear of the future  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Stepne

Review: Stepne

Ukrainian director Maryna Vroda’s highly anticipated first feature negotiates the ghosts of her village’s past, which might soon be lost  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Locarno Pro announces its Open Doors winners, sees the triumph of Génesis Valenzuela’s Three Bullets

Locarno Pro announces its Open Doors winners, sees the triumph of Génesis Valenzuela’s Three Bullets

The Dominican-Spanish project, which revolves around the brutal murder of Lucrecia Pérez in 1992, has snagged three prizes  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Locarno Pro/Awards

Review: Patagonia

Review: Patagonia

Italian director Simone Bozzelli offers up a utopian universe inhabited by super sensitive characters who use tenderness as a means to rebel against the world  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Procida

Review: Procida

This collective film made under the artistic and pedagogical supervision of Leonardo Di Costanzo presents itself as a pleasing city symphony paying tribute to the Italian island  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Guardians of the Formula

Review: Guardians of the Formula

Serbian helmer Dragan Bjelogrlić comes up with a skilfully constructed scientific drama lifting the lid on little-known historical events  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Review: The Beautiful Summer

Review: The Beautiful Summer

Set just before the onset of World War II, Laura Luchetti’s latest film is a coming-of-age story that is told, rather than felt  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Review: Touched

Review: Touched

Claudia Rorarius explores the fine line between arousal and abuse in her taboo-breaking, fleshy second feature  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

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