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Locarno 2025 / Filmmakers of the Present

20 articles available in total starting from 09/07/2025. Last article published on 27/08/2025.

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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

Locarno announces the films selected for its parallel sections

Locarno announces the films selected for its parallel sections

Both the Filmmakers of the Present section - dedicated to current directors and films of the future - and the Piazza Grande line-up boast rich and multi-faceted selections  

09/07 | Locarno 2025

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