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2351 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 19/08/2025.

Review: Bogancloch

Review: Bogancloch

Ben Rivers’ magnificent feature film invites us to observe the daily life of a character outside of time, a modern-day mystic who lives in accordance with nature’s rhythms  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: 100,000,000,000,000

Review: 100,000,000,000,000

In his personal style straddling different genres, Virgil Vernier draws out subtle concentric circles, following in the wake of a young escort as he criss-crosses the rugged city-state of Monaco  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

Interview: Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

“Marianna Fontana's face is the film's landscape”

The directing duo talks to Cineuropa about the film's spectacular lead and the archetypal figure she plays  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Luce

Review: Luce

The second film by directing duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino stars a wondrous Marianna Fontana as a young woman sublimating the loss of her father  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Holy Electricity

Review: Holy Electricity

Tato Kotetishvili’s feature debut is an urban road movie starring two solitary men who shine neon light around the outskirts of Tbilisi in exchange for closeness  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Moon

Review: Moon

Kurdwin Ayub’s second feature brings clashing worlds together, attempting to facilitate their collision through the complex constellations of sisterhood  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Drowning Dry

Review: Drowning Dry

Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša’s second feature thrusts us into the intimacy of fragile characters who are trying to piece themselves back together following a terrible tragedy  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: The Sparrow in the Chimney

Review: The Sparrow in the Chimney

This time directing solo, Ramon Zürcher enchants us with his unmistakeable style, treating us to a dark film that questions ideas about heteronormative families  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Salve Maria

Review: Salve Maria

Mar Coll’s third feature is a close-up take on postpartum depression, teetering between feminist drama and psychological thriller  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

Interview: Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

“I find it easier to set fiction, like a gangster film, in a city that I don't know so well”

The German director follows a gangster through Brussels in his new movie, a mixture of crime story and existentialist drama  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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