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131 articles available in total starting from 20/07/2009. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

Interview: Valentina and Nicole Bertani • Directors of Mosquitoes

“A sisterly relationship developed between us and our screenwriter, feeding into a screenplay which we see as feminist rather than feminine”

The two Italian directors spoke to us with infectious joy about what drove them to tell a story both personal – based on their childhood - and universal  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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

Jacqueline Zünd • Director of Don’t Let the Sun

Interview: Jacqueline Zünd • Director of Don’t Let the Sun

“In this film, I discovered what it really means to work with actors, and I found it liberating”

The Swiss director discusses her debut fiction feature, a fusion of climate dystopia and human connection, influenced by her documentary background  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Mosquitoes

Review: Mosquitoes

Valentina and Nicole Bertani’s first film is a punk and queer ode to the 1990s and a portrait of a group of girls who’ve decided to tell their own story and dictate their own rules  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Don't Let the Sun

Review: Don't Let the Sun

Jacqueline Zünd’s debut feature explores isolation and hope in a dystopian, sun-scorched future, using silence and visuals to tell a haunting story  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Leonardo di Costanzo to present Elisa in Venice

Leonardo di Costanzo to present Elisa in Venice

Toplined by Barbara Ronchi and Roschdy Zem, the Italian director’s fourth feature film has been selected for the Golden Lion competition  

25/07 | Production | Funding | Italy/Switzerland

Mosquitoes in the running for Locarno’s Golden Leopard

Mosquitoes in the running for Locarno’s Golden Leopard

Toplined by an eight-year-old child, Valentina and Nicole Bertani’s fiction feature debut is the only Italian film selected for the Swiss festival’s official competition  

11/07 | Production | Funding | Italy/Switzerland/France

Shoot for new Italian-language Swiss series La linea della palma begins in Sicily

Shoot for new Italian-language Swiss series La linea della palma begins in Sicily

Regional channel RSI, part of Switzerland's main broadcaster, is producing the six-episode crime show directed by Fulvio Bernasconi  

23/04 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Italy

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

“Parenthood and gender identity are universal themes which are at risk of being exploited”

The director chatted with us about his documentary on the Milan-based doctor who helps patients along the challenging journeys of assisted conception and gender affirmation  

27/03 | /France/Italy/Switzerland

Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

Interview: Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

“This type of violence and oppression doesn’t belong to the past, we see it every day, it’s scary”

We talked to the Italian director about his new film, inspired by the story of Hitler’s last taster, and about the fact that it could be set in the near future  

25/03 | Bif&st 2025

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