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Locarno 2024 / Cineasti del presente

26 articles available in total starting from 10/07/2024. Last article published on 24/01/2025.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

Awarded the Cineasti del presente section's Best Emerging Director Prize, Denise Fernandes' title is now competing in Göteborg, prior to being released in Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal  

24/01 | Promotion | Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

Denise Fernandes • Director of Hanami

Interview: Denise Fernandes • Director of Hanami

“The location was like a canvas that allowed me to explore creativity unhindered”

The Swiss-Cape Verdean director unpicks her coming-of-age story set on the shores of Cape Verde and explains how the landscape inspired her  

20/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Lucie Prost • Director of Fario

Interview: Lucie Prost • Director of Fario

“It took me a while to find the right level of wonder and fantasy that would fit this story organically”

The French director breaks down the tonal shifts in her film, and the psychological work that goes into depicting masculinity and trauma  

20/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Jessica Sarah Rinland • Director of Collective Monologue

Interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland • Director of Collective Monologue

“A collective monologue can exist between humans and animals or between workers and institutions”

The Argentinean-British director talks about her interest in ecology and museum conservation, her relationship with her protagonists and her artistic references  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Toxic wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

Toxic wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

The festival has elevated two courageous Lithuanian directors, Saulė Bliuvaitė and Laurynas Bareiša, to the highest podium, along with the equally radical Kurdish-Austrian director Kurdwin Ayub  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Awards

Review: Collective Monologue

Review: Collective Monologue

Jessica Sarah Rinland's feature transcends the boundaries between human and animal, capturing the infinite tenderness of relationships rooted in the pure immediacy of existence  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Adele Tulli • Director of Real

Interview: Adele Tulli • Director of Real

“What interests me is understanding what is happening in our lives”

The Italian director tells us about the genesis of her film, but also about the relationship, at once cathartic and perverse, that our society has with new technologies  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

Interview: Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

“The goal was to avoid saying what I think is good or bad, or pointing a finger”

The British director breaks down how he employed a mix of static and home-video aesthetics to ask important moral questions in his new film  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

Interview: Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

“I mock the patriarchy and machismo, but there is nothing to laugh about”

The Dubai-based Kazakh director believes that toxic masculinity and sexism can be battled with reason instead of force  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

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