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10909 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 28/07/2025.

Review: A Woman

Review: A Woman

Jean-Paul Civeyrac presents a crime thriller that attempts to combine popular and art-house cinema through the story of a woman in the grip of an unstoppable thirst for revenge  

19/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Review: Angry Annie

Review: Angry Annie

French filmmaker Blandine Lenoir’s intimate take on the private struggle for the approval of abortion law in France back in the 1970s is an ode to female solidarity  

17/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Review: A Ballad

Review: A Ballad

Aida Begić’s Brechtian and melancholic comedy finds a young divorcee returning to her hometown to re-examine her life  

17/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Review: Matadero

Review: Matadero

Argentinian director Santiago Fillol transforms Esteban Echeverría's chilling tale into images  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Review: It Is Night in America

Review: It Is Night in America

Brazilian artist and director Ana Vaz encourages us to take an interest in the animal world that inhabits our cities, in the often difficult cohabitation between living species  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

"I had to embrace the subject, and to show courage"

The French director discusses her very dark film noir with a very scary protagonist  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero begins shooting with Mia Wasikowska and Sidse Babett Knudsen in tow

Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero begins shooting with Mia Wasikowska and Sidse Babett Knudsen in tow

The “intense psychological drama”, set at an elite co-educational school, is currently filming in Oxford and will later move to Austria  

15/08/2022 | Production | Funding | Austria/Germany/UK/France/Denmark

Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Interview: Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

"The film is in a way a tribute to these typical village characters"

In his latest film, awarded with the festival's Special Jury Prize, the Italian filmmaker explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Nightsiren

Interview: Tereza Nvotová • Director of Nightsiren

“We realised that many of our beloved traditions exist to preserve the status quo”

The Slovak filmmaker talks about her film, which deals with conservative traditions, the patriarchy and female empowerment, and just won the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del presente section  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Rule 34

Review: Rule 34

Brazilian filmmaker Júlia Murat's Golden Leopard winner stages the obsessive, simultaneously exhilarating and dangerous pursuit of pleasure as a political act  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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