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

Review: Nightsiren

Review: Nightsiren

Slovakian director Tereza Nvotová presents a drama with supernatural undertones which overturns tragically persistent stereotypes  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Stella in Love

Review: Stella in Love

Sylvie Verheyde’s seventh feature is an atmospheric vintage revisiting of her teenage years, spent on the verge of an adulthood which seems to offer scant prospects  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

Interview: Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

“It’s all about breaking down walls and old ideas”

The Angola-born Portuguese director isn’t writing off the past just yet  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

Interview: Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

"I believe that nowadays, many adolescents find themselves very much alone and have a hard time finding their own voices"

The French helmer goes back in time by reflecting on her youth, more than a decade after her first autobiographical film Stella  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann quotes Beau Travail in her latest feature, the slowest example of slow cinema in recent memory  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Astrakan

Review: Astrakan

David Depesseville presents his debut feature film about adolescence, combining impressionism and cruel realism and exuding dark-to-sinister undertones  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

Interview: Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

"When I am writing a scene, it’s really about the moment"

The German filmmaker and visual artist reflects on her artistic approach and the investigative drive behind her second slow-paced hypnotic feature  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

Interview: Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

“The actresses were distracted from their own acting and this made everything feel much more authentic and natural”

The French director discusses her film, in which a teenager needs to find the way to break free from her mother in order to decide about the fate of the child she is pregnant with  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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