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Locarno 2026 / Compétition

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30 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2026. Last article published on 18/08/2026.

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Review: The Riverbank

Review: The Riverbank

In their debut feature, Brazilian directors Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho portray several highly strung, proud and fearless characters who are fighting to exist  

13/08 | Films | Reviews | Locarno 2026 – Competition

Review: Hearing

Review: Hearing

Lê Bảo’s mysterious and immersive second feature follows the estrangement of two generations of a Vietnamese family and the strange audiovisual phenomena haunting them  

12/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Wandering Trees

Interview: Salvatore Mereu • Director of Wandering Trees

“I wanted the landscape that is portrayed in the film to potentially be everyone’s - a landscape of the soul”

The director talks about his movie, centred on three very different families who come together and clash around an impossible love story that transcends space and time  

12/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: D’ici là

Review: D’ici là

Sarah Leonor captures the imperceptible while seeking out the essence of nature and human beings in a varied, singular and mesmerising triptych  

12/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña • Directors of Donkey Princess

Interview: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña • Directors of Donkey Princess

“Donkey Princess springs from that exact encounter between the strange, the distorted, and the profoundly pop and recognisable”

The directing duo talk about venturing into the realm of fairy tales, myths and the unconscious, blending live action, animation and an imagination rooted in Chilean popular culture  

12/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Isabelle Stever, Anna Melikova • Director and screenwriter of I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Interview: Isabelle Stever, Anna Melikova • Director and screenwriter of I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

“We wanted the war to exist on a linguistic and emotional level, rather than simply through images of destruction”

The director and screenwriter discuss their film about a Ukrainian couple simultaneously navigating one partner’s gender transition and the devastating consequences of the Russian invasion  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Giovanni Tortorici • Director of Ketticè

Interview: Giovanni Tortorici • Director of Ketticè

“The film offered me the chance to explore power dynamics between the individual and the family, and between the individual and institutions - in particular, with school”

The director discusses his ironic and powerful film about an age suspended between the desire for freedom, violence, drugs and the need to belong  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: Objet a

Review: Objet a

Ann Oren’s second feature explores love and unconventional desire through visionary hand surgeons confronting an enigmatic outsider  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: Wandering Trees

Review: Wandering Trees

The new film by Salvatore Mereu, inspired by an Alberto Capitta novel, whisks us away into a fantastical world where wounded creatures take refuge while seeking freedom  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: You Don’t Belong Here

Review: You Don’t Belong Here

Romanian director Florin Serban explores social and family conflicts sparked by a weakening patriarchal model that feeds off its own anger  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

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