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Locarno 2023 / Cineasti del presente

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20 articles available in total starting from 05/07/2023. Last article published on 28/09/2023.

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Katharina Huber • Director of A Good Place

Interview: Katharina Huber • Director of A Good Place

“It was important to me that the film should not look too picturesque or too pretty”

We talked with the German director about her inspiration for and her artistic approach to her dystopian feature debut  

28/09/2023 | /Germany

Dominic Sangma • Director of Rapture

Interview: Dominic Sangma • Director of Rapture

“We need to stop, pause and see what's really happening behind the veil of fear”

The Indian director enlightens us on the ways of translating the past into a cinematic, fictional present  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Hugues Hariche • Director of Rivière

Interview: Hugues Hariche • Director of Rivière

“The idea was to start with this damaged character and see how she could escape from her situation through her encounters”

The Swiss-French director breaks down the inspiration for his intimate coming-of-age film, his approach to the aesthetics and what ice hockey means to him personally  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro • Directors of On the Go

Interview: María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro • Directors of On the Go

“How can you consider being a mother when it's the first time that the doors are wide open for female filmmakers?”

The Spanish directors of the experimental road movie open up about motherhood and self-love  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

Interview: Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

“I try to get as close as possible to understanding life and emotions”

The German director's first feature depicts an uneasy, but striking, story of two lonesome souls, a relationship rarely seen on the screen before  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

Interview: Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

“The aim of the film is to form part of post-conflict Basque Country, shining a little light on a part that we don't often see”

Two of the members of this artistic group, Mikel Ibarguren and Ekain Albite, reveal the keys to their experimental début work, which recalls the silenced traumas of the Basque Country  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

The biggest awards of the festival went to three courageous and radical directors: the Iranian Ali Ahmadzadeh, the Ukrainian Maryna Vroda and the Romanian Radu Jude  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Awards

Review: A Good Place

Review: A Good Place

Katharina Huber’s award-winning fiction debut is a sci-fi-inflected look at a declining community in a mountainous area of Germany, together with the two young women who resist it  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Éléonore Saintagnan • Director of Camping du Lac

Interview: Éléonore Saintagnan • Director of Camping du Lac

“In my work, there is always something strange going on”

The absurd meets the serious in the French director’s new film, in which she also plays the lead role  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Rapture

Review: Rapture

Indian director Dominic Sangma explores fear and societal tensions in his sophomore feature  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

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