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Locarno 2023

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74 articles available in total starting from 16/09/2022. Last article published on 28/09/2023.

Review: Bonjour la langue

Review: Bonjour la langue

Exploring familial ties and challenging industry conventions, Paul Vecchiali's last film is a testament to the unwavering spirit of auteur cinema at its barest essentials  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Ricardo and Painting

Review: Ricardo and Painting

After bringing his ‘Trilogy of Evil’ to a close, Barbet Schroeder chooses to zoom in on the life of a gentle soul, a talented painter and one of his closest friends  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of Competition

Colectivo Negu  • Directors of Negu hurbilak

Interview: Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

“The aim of the film is to form part of post-conflict Basque Country, shining a little light on a part that we don't often see”

Two of the members of this artistic group, Mikel Ibarguren and Ekain Albite, reveal the keys to their experimental début work, which recalls the silenced traumas of the Basque Country  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Basil Da Cunha  • Director of Manga D’Terra

Interview: Basil Da Cunha • Director of Manga D’Terra

"I made a musical that pays homage to a type of music which does not get the recognition it deserves"

The Swiss-Portuguese director, whose film pays homage to the women of the Reboleira neighbourhood, talks to us with passion about the tight connection between life and cinema  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Rossosperanza

Review: Rossosperanza

The latest powerful film from Annarita Zambrano is a cruel and violent satire of respectability in a society kept captive by its small and petty privileges  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

The biggest awards of the festival went to three courageous and radical directors: the Iranian Ali Ahmadzadeh, the Ukrainian Maryna Vroda and the Romanian Radu Jude  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Awards

Review: A Good Place

Review: A Good Place

Katharina Huber’s award-winning fiction debut is a sci-fi-inflected look at a declining community in a mountainous area of Germany, together with the two young women who resist it  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Éléonore Saintagnan  • Director of Camping du Lac

Interview: Éléonore Saintagnan • Director of Camping du Lac

“In my work, there is always something strange going on”

The absurd meets the serious in the French director’s new film, in which she also plays the lead role  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Laura Ferrés  • Director of The Permanent Picture

Interview: Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

“I am not interested in making autobiographical films; I already spend enough time with myself”

The Catalonian director has crafted an experimental and genre-blending portrait of women from different generations  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Sylvain George  • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Interview: Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

“At night, the rules don’t apply”

The French director dives into darkness in his film about a group of kids from Morocco, dreaming of escaping to Europe yet still stuck in Melilla  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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