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11821 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 16/10/2026.

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

The hunt for the Valois d'Or is about to kick off in Angoulême

The hunt for the Valois d'Or is about to kick off in Angoulême

With a ten-title competition spearheading a mouthwatering programme, the 17th edition of the Festival du Film Francophone takes place from 27 August-1 September  

20/08/2024 | Festivals | Awards | France

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

Interview: Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

“I think the world is divided into two categories: the oppressors and the oppressed”

With his third feature, the Tunisian director expands on the political themes of liberation and resistance through animal dreams  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Green Line

Review: Green Line

French director Sylvie Ballyot presents a debut feature that revisits the Lebanese Civil War period through the eyes of a young girl  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: The Passion According to Béatrice

Review: The Passion According to Béatrice

The heartbreaking and poetic feature by Fabrice Du Welz sees a vulnerable Béatrice Dalle on the traces of one of the men of her life, Pier Paolo Pasolini  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

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

Review: Agora

Review: Agora

Ala Eddine Slim’s film merges auteur thriller with fable to explore socio-political unrest in Tunisia through the mysterious return of the dead  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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