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Locarno 2025 / Piazza Grande

12 articles available in total starting from 28/03/2025. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

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Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji takes us onto the streets of Baghdad, where children have to fend for themselves if they want to survive the constant turmoil  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Review: The Dead of Winter

Review: The Dead of Winter

Brian Kirk transports the audience to the snowy plains of Minnesota where the uncontaminated countryside forming the backdrop to his characters’ lives hides unanticipated dangers  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Review: The Birthday Party

Review: The Birthday Party

Spanish helmer Miguel Ángel Jiménez stages a birthday extravaganza led by Willem Dafoe and based on Greek writer Panos Karnezis’s eponymous novel  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

Interview: Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

“I wanted to recall trauma gently, without actually showing the war”

The Armenian-French director discusses her first fiction feature, sharing insights on the casting process and on how she weaves real-life elements into fiction  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Review: In the Land of Arto

Review: In the Land of Arto

Armenian-French director Tamara Stepanyan’s enigmatic first fiction feature slowly unveils the mysteries behind the death of a man whose hidden past sheds light on a painful present  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Locarno announces the films selected for its parallel sections

Locarno announces the films selected for its parallel sections

Both the Filmmakers of the Present section - dedicated to current directors and films of the future - and the Piazza Grande line-up boast rich and multi-faceted selections  

09/07 | Locarno 2025

Joachim Trier • Director of Sentimental Value

Interview: Joachim Trier • Director of Sentimental Value

“I’m 50 and have two small kids, and the world is in turmoil and unrest – it just feels like we’re ready for some tenderness”

CANNES 2025: The Norwegian director discusses his latest film and the fact he has reached a “lucky” point in his career  

05/06 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: Heads or Tails?

Review: Heads or Tails?

CANNES 2025: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppi’s new film is an entertaining and insolent anti-western about the arrival of Buffalo Bill’s show in Italy and the flight of two lovers on the run  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Sentimental Value

Review: Sentimental Value

CANNES 2025: Joachim Trier comes close to going full Bergman in this touching family psychodrama but amps up the gentle humour  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: It Was Just an Accident

Review: It Was Just an Accident

CANNES 2025: A gripping tale of revenge and reckoning, Jafar Panahi’s latest drama lays bare the vicious cycle of violence under repression  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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