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10940 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 15/08/2025.

Pilar López de Ayala and Javier Rebollo return with Close to the Sultan

Pilar López de Ayala and Javier Rebollo return with Close to the Sultan

After a six-year hiatus, the actress is back performing in front of the camera again in this adventure flick, recently shot in Tunisia and marking the director’s return after a decade away  

11/08/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Spain

Review: Antarctica Calling

Review: Antarctica Calling

Luc Jacquet returns to the icy continent once again, but this time it is actually about the filmmaker’s personal journey that entices him to keep coming back  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Romain de Saint-Blanquat  • Director of Bitten

Interview: Romain de Saint-Blanquat • Director of Bitten

“Gothic literature had an influence on the aesthetics of the film as well as on the main character”

The French director breaks down his stylish and atmospheric feature debut, focusing on his protagonists, and his fascination for vampires and coming-of-age topics  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet Dreams

Interview: Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film and discusses the role of the past in the present  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: 5 Hectares

Review: 5 Hectares

French director Émilie Deleuze follows a 50-year-old in search of his own private Eden and stubborn to the point of jeopardising everything  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Sylvain George sets his gaze on a group of young migrants on the border between the African continent and Europe, shining a light on a daily existence rife with persistence, hope and painful utopias  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Karim Aïnouz’s thriller Motel Destino in production

Eroticism, a recurring element in the Brazilian director’s filmography, serves as the backdrop for his eighth fiction feature  

09/08/2023 | Production | Funding | Brazil/Germany/France/UK

Radu Jude  • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

“It is a very self-reflective film about what images mean and what cinema can be nowadays”

The Romanian helmer breaks down his complex new feature of two halves, which provides witty comments on the digital environment and the altered nature of cinema  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: The Madness Express

Review: The Madness Express

Belgian filmmaker Olivier Van Hoofstadt returns with a popular and often effective railway comedy, carried by the energy of Artus  

08/08/2023 | Films | Reviews | France/Belgium

Review: Rivière

Review: Rivière

Hugues Hariche’s debut feature depicts the monotonous yet turbulent lives of a group of teens trying to emancipate themselves from adults who no longer understand them  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del Presente

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