Film Reviews

8142 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 08/11/2025. 721 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Communion by Anna Zamecka

17/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: For her debut feature, screened in the Critics’ Week at the Locarno Film Festival, Anna Zamecka sneaks into the everyday life of a family teetering between normality and chaos  

Komunia

Komunia

A Decent Woman by Lukas Valenta Rinner

15/08/2016

Austrian director Lukas Valenta Rinner returns to Argentina for this sharp and startling satire that toys with the standards (and absurdities) of bourgeois society  

Los decentes (Die liebhaberin)

Los decentes (Die liebhaberin)

Afterlov by Stergios Paschos

12/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Young Greek director Stergios Paschos presented his intense and surreal first feature film in the Filmmakers of the Present section  

Afterlov

Afterlov

The Nest by Klaudia Reynicke

12/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Klaudia Reynicke brings us a very personal film imbued with a wild mysticism that’s almost savage. A fictional first film which is surprising and intriguing  

Il nido

Il nido

Godless by Ralitza Petrova

12/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Bulgarian filmmaker Ralitza Petrova delves into the world of the less fortunate in her impressive first feature  

Godless

Godless

The Young One by Julien Samani

11/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: The debut fictional feature by Julien Samani casts us out to sea, on board a huge imaginary boat where the very concept of humanity is put to the test  

Jeunesse

Jeunesse

Marija by Michael Koch

10/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: The debut film from Swiss director Michael Koch is an uncompromising portrait of a woman prepared to go to any lengths to win her longed-for independence  

Marija

Marija

The Idea of a Lake by Milagros Mumenthaler

10/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Five years after Back to Stay, Milagros Mumenthaler, winner of the Golden Leopard, returns to Locarno with this dreamlike family drama  

La idea de un lago

La idea de un lago

Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower by Nicolas Wadimoff

09/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: In his latest film, Nicolas Wadimoff gets under the skin of an impenetrable figure whose convictions have become his raison d’être. “Forever, until victory!”  

Jean Ziegler, l'optimisme de la volonté

Jean Ziegler, l'optimisme de la volonté

Cahier africain by Heidi Specogna

09/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Heidi Specogna embraces the camera to stand strong with those whose only weapon is courage, the courage to keep hoping in a possible future  

Cahier africain

Cahier africain

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