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REPORT: Locarno 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 78th Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2025
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90 articles available in total starting from 28/03/2025. Last article published on 30/10/2025.

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Review: Hair, Paper, Water…

Review: Hair, Paper, Water…

Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý co-direct a pensively beautiful documentary miniature focusing on an elderly Vietnamese lady and her large extended family  

18/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Locarno’s Golden Leopard goes to Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Locarno’s Golden Leopard goes to Two Seasons, Two Strangers

The festival has rewarded the sheer poetry of Sho Miyake, whose film featured on the podium alongside Tales of the Wounded Land, White Snail, God Will Not Help and Dry Leaf  

18/08 | Locarno 2025 | Awards

Naomi Kawase • Director of Yakushima’s Illusion

Interview: Naomi Kawase • Director of Yakushima’s Illusion

“I think the sensitivity and emotions that are part of our work go beyond spoken language”

The Japanese director explains the reasons which prompted her to tell us the story of a French paediatric doctor working in Kobe, and why she chose Vicky Krieps for the role  

18/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Yakushima’s Illusion

Review: Yakushima’s Illusion

Naomi Kawase brings together two thorny questions for Japanese society: organ transplants and the tens of thousands of people who mysteriously disappear every year  

15/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: The Plant from the Canaries

Review: The Plant from the Canaries

Ruan Lan-Xi’s first feature film is an elegant and ethereal portrait of a woman who seems to glide through the city she’s getting to know, like a skater across an icy lake  

15/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Ivana Mladenović • Director of Sorella di Clausura

Interview: Ivana Mladenović • Director of Sorella di Clausura

“It’s not just reality or just fiction; it’s that middle ground where both come together to create something that can’t be separated”

The Serbian-Romanian filmmaker talks about her fourth feature, which follows a self-aware young woman in her pursuit of happiness at a time of crisis  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: The Lake

Review: The Lake

The debut feature film by Jean-Luc Godard’s former director of photography Fabrice Aragno takes viewers on a fascinating, immersive cinematographic journey  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

Interview: Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

“A sisterly relationship developed between us and our screenwriter, feeding into a screenplay which we see as feminist rather than feminine”

The two Italian directors spoke to us with infectious joy about what drove them to tell a story both personal – based on their childhood - and universal  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Janicke Askevold • Director of Solomamma

Interview: Janicke Askevold • Director of Solomamma

"It was really important to everyone in the team that we respect the women who make this particular life choice and who inspired the film"

The Norwegian director sat down with us to discuss the women who inspired her film and her lead actress  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Dry Leaf

Review: Dry Leaf

People and place become one in Alexandre Koberidze’s sophomore feature, which traces a series of encounters on a gentle road trip across the Georgian countryside  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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