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21 articles available in total starting from 09/07/2025. Last article published on 29/10/2025.

Review: A Balcony in Limoges

Review: A Balcony in Limoges

Jérôme Reybaud’s sophomore feature, about an older woman who goes out of her way to “help” someone she knew in her childhood, is short, sweet and unexpected  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Don’t Let Me Die

Review: Don’t Let Me Die

Andrei Epure’s eerie first feature cheekily asks us whether we are a little bit dead inside  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Becoming

Review: Becoming

Zhannat Alshanova tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl grappling with an absent mother which heightens her desire to join a mysterious community of female swimmers  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Sweetheart

Review: Sweetheart

For her debut feature, Margherita Spampinato uses the template of the generational gap, but examines more layers of it  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Don't Let the Sun

Review: Don't Let the Sun

Jacqueline Zünd’s debut feature explores isolation and hope in a dystopian, sun-scorched future, using silence and visuals to tell a haunting story  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Blue Heron

Review: Blue Heron

Familial bonds and fragments of memory shape Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari’s stunning, emotionally eloquent feature debut  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Balearic

Review: Balearic

Ion de Sosa’s second fiction feature allows the transcendental to seep through the cracks in what’s neither a fever-dream nor a fable, but a secret, third storytelling form  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: The Fin

Review: The Fin

Syeyoung Park takes us on an emotional journey set in a unified but devastated post-apocalyptic Korea  

11/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Fantasy

Review: Fantasy

With her feature debut, Kukla delves into the big questions of coming of age, exploring sexuality and friendships among women in a patriarchal environment  

08/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Filmmakers of the Present entry Don’t Let Me Die

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Filmmakers of the Present entry Don’t Let Me Die

Andrei Epure’s debut feature, about a young woman preparing the funeral of her mysterious neighbour, boasts a peculiar atmosphere  

24/07 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

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