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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.

REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

We take a closer look at nine projects showcased in Locarno Pro’s co-development programme for films from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

Radu Jude • Director of Dracula

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Dracula

“I like to work around myths”

The Romanian helmer talks to us about using “bad” AI images, Dracula’s legacy and shooting on an iPhone in Sighisoara  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Affection Affection

Review: Affection Affection

Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther craft a clever and mischievous movie with its own special charm, playing skilfully on the boundary between the novelesque and the bizarre  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji takes us onto the streets of Baghdad, where children have to fend for themselves if they want to survive the constant turmoil  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Review: Sorella di Clausura

Review: Sorella di Clausura

A thirty-something “forever failure” tries to navigate life, love, money and sex in Ivana Mladenović’s newest feature  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Le Chantier

Review: Le Chantier

In his latest documentary, Jean-Stéphane Bron shows us the (re-)construction of Pathé Palace cinema and the company headquarters  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Dracula

Review: Dracula

Romanian auteur Radu Jude riffs on the vampire myth in an episodic, irreverent, AI-driven satire on adaptation, filmmaking and national identity  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Ion de Sosa • Director of Balearic

Interview: Ion de Sosa • Director of Balearic

“When I work I feel at home, with no restrictions on creativity or form"

The Basque director talks about his psychedelic tale that sits halfway between comedy and terror  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Jacqueline Zünd • Director of Don’t Let the Sun

Interview: Jacqueline Zünd • Director of Don’t Let the Sun

“In this film, I discovered what it really means to work with actors, and I found it liberating”

The Swiss director discusses her debut fiction feature, a fusion of climate dystopia and human connection, influenced by her documentary background  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Dane Komljen • Director of Desire Lines

Interview: Dane Komljen • Director of Desire Lines

“Branko’s character embodies a disobedient part of the human experience that resists being boxed in”

The Yugoslavia-born and Berlin-based director breaks down his third feature, which navigates between genres, identities, and both urban and natural spaces  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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