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Locarno 2024

107 articles available in total starting from 22/01/2024. Last article published on 24/01/2025.

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Review: New Dawn Fades

Review: New Dawn Fades

Gürcan Keltek follows a descent into madness against the backdrop of Istanbul's rich topography in his first foray into fiction filmmaking  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Agora

Review: Agora

Ala Eddine Slim’s film merges auteur thriller with fable to explore socio-political unrest in Tunisia through the mysterious return of the dead  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Toxic

Review: Toxic

Saulė Bliuvaitė’s coming-of-age tale and debut feature navigates teenage insecurities about body image amidst dreams and realities in a dilapidated Lithuanian mining town  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Samir • Director of The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

Interview: Samir • Director of The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

“A film can create playful and emotional connections to bring people's stories closer to others”

The Swiss director reveals his sources, and his visual and thematic approach to his film addressing the history of Italian migrants in Switzerland  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

Interview: Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

“The goal was to avoid saying what I think is good or bad, or pointing a finger”

The British director breaks down how he employed a mix of static and home-video aesthetics to ask important moral questions in his new film  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

Interview: Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

“I mock the patriarchy and machismo, but there is nothing to laugh about”

The Dubai-based Kazakh director believes that toxic masculinity and sexism can be battled with reason instead of force  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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