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Locarno 2024 / Competition


40 articles available in total starting from 22/02/2024. Last article published on 20/08/2024.

Review: Weightless

Review: Weightless

Italian director Sara Fgaier’s debut is a haunting, poetic and emotional film about love, memory and death  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Death Will Come

Review: Death Will Come

Christoph Hochhäusler crafts a gritty crime-thriller set in Brussels' underbelly, pitting an old-school crime boss against a modern rival  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Transamazonia

Review: Transamazonia

Despite its fascinating aesthetics, Pia Marais’ latest feature fails to deliver a compelling tale owing to its confusing writing  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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

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