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Locarno 2025 / Competition


41 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2025. Last article published on 19/08/2025.

Radu Jude • Director of Dracula

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Dracula

“I like to work around myths”

The Romanian helmer talks to us about using “bad” AI images, Dracula’s legacy and shooting on an iPhone in Sighisoara  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Sorella di Clausura

Review: Sorella di Clausura

A thirty-something “forever failure” tries to navigate life, love, money and sex in Ivana Mladenović’s newest feature  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Dracula

Review: Dracula

Romanian auteur Radu Jude riffs on the vampire myth in an episodic, irreverent, AI-driven satire on adaptation, filmmaking and national identity  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Dane Komljen • Director of Desire Lines

Interview: Dane Komljen • Director of Desire Lines

“Branko’s character embodies a disobedient part of the human experience that resists being boxed in”

The Yugoslavia-born and Berlin-based director breaks down his third feature, which navigates between genres, identities, and both urban and natural spaces  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

Interview: Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

"The political is already in the poetry"

The Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending archaeology, oral history and local myth into a docu-fiction, and how her approach reflects the layered landscapes of Alentejo  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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

Rosanne Pel • Director of Donkey Days

Interview: Rosanne Pel • Director of Donkey Days

“The need for control comes from within a social construct that has been shaped over time”

The Dutch filmmaker speaks about her unconventional process for making her latest movie, zooming in on the internalised conflicts that many women face  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Ben Rivers • Director of Mare’s Nest

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Mare’s Nest

“I wanted to make a film that has that unease beneath it because that’s the world we live in”

The British filmmaker talks about fusing Don DeLillo’s play with a child’s perspective, and how the film’s shifting styles reflect its protagonist’s journey and the director’s own process  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Desire Lines

Review: Desire Lines

The latest enigmatic film by Dane Komljen sees him tackling topics such as trauma, the uncertainty of identity and the unreliability of memory  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Solomamma

Review: Solomamma

Janicke Askevold’s second feature speaks of an alternative kind of motherhood which breaks the rules set by a patriarchal society intent on controlling everything  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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