Film Reviews

8148 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 12/11/2025. 725 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Music Hole by David Mützenmacher, Gaëtan Liekens

11/08/2021

Gaëtan Liekens and David Mutzenmacher offer a dark comedy with a Belgian touch that could well attain cult status  

Music Hole

Music Hole

Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner

11/08/2021

This fascinating documentary by young Italian director Francesco Montagner tells the tale of three brothers on the threshold of adulthood, grappling with their unsettling father-master  

Brotherhood

Brotherhood

The Giants by Bonifacio Angius

11/08/2021

Bonifacio Angius returns to the Locarno Film Festival to present his latest, quirky feature film, painting a comical and decadent portrait of masculinity which is on the verge of implosion  

I giganti

I giganti

Bull by Paul Andrew Williams

10/08/2021

Paul Andrew Williams’ violent revenge tale feels familiar until it takes a sudden, and welcome, swerve into bonkers territory  

Bull

Bull

Monte Verità by Stefan Jäger

10/08/2021

Stefan Jäger’s latest long-awaited film, shot in Ticino in 2020 with the support of the Ticino Film Commission, takes a bow on Locarno’s Piazza Grande  

Monte Verità

Monte Verità

The Sacred Spirit by Chema García Ibarra

10/08/2021

With his debut feature, Chema García Ibarra proves that he is excellent at crafting unique atmospheres, stories and sensations, taking daily life as his starting point  

Espíritu sagrado

Espíritu sagrado

A Thousand Fires by Saeed Taji Farouky

10/08/2021

Saeed Taji Farouky's documentary tells the intimate story of a Myanma family, set against the epic background of manual oil extraction  

A Thousand Fires

A Thousand Fires

Zahorí by Marí Alessandrini

10/08/2021

Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature takes us on a magical journey to the ends of the earth where the noise of the city gives way to introspection in a setting where anything still seems possible  

Zahorí

Zahorí

Our Eternal Summer by Émilie Aussel

10/08/2021

This debut feature film by young French director Émilie Aussel speaks of adolescence in all its mysterious and ambiguous beauty  

L'Été l'éternité

L'Été l'éternité

Secret Name by Aurélia Georges

09/08/2021

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

La place d'une autre

La place d'une autre

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