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682 articles available in total starting from 14/06/2002. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

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: 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

Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

Interview: Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

"The political is already in the poetry"

The Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending archaeology, oral history and local myth into a docu-fiction, and how her approach reflects the layered landscapes of Alentejo  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: The Seasons

Review: The Seasons

Maureen Fazendeiro’s hybrid film whisks us off to the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, and unearths artefacts, stories and songs  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter • Directors of White Snail

Interview: Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter • Directors of White Snail

“These two people never had the privilege of being truly understood, and that’s the reason they need to meet”

The Austrian directors discuss their film dealing with urban isolation and poor mental health and starring the real-life protagonists of the true stores it’s based on  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: White Snail

Review: White Snail

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter merge a tale of intimacy with strikingly atmospheric visuals as a model and a morgue worker forge an unexpected bond in Belarus  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

TV series Mozart Mozart is in the works

TV series Mozart Mozart is in the works

Cineuropa visited the set of the series, filmed in Lithuania and Latvia, with editing already underway in Germany and international distribution planned for October  

31/07 | Production | Funding | Germany/Austria/Switzerland

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Locarno Semaine de la Critique documentary Green Light

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Locarno Semaine de la Critique documentary Green Light

Pavel Cuzuioc’s film offers rare insights into the ethical, emotional but also very practical complexities of assisted suicide  

28/07 | Locarno 2025 | Semaine de la Critique

Radu Jude poised to make Dracula great again at Locarno

Radu Jude poised to make Dracula great again at Locarno

The Romanian director’s take on his country’s most famous (and apocryphal) historical character will be competing for the Swiss festival’s top award  

10/07 | Production | Funding | Romania/Austria/Luxembourg

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