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REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Alliance 4 Development @ Locarno Pro 2025

We take a closer look at nine projects showcased in Locarno Pro’s co-development programme for films from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland  

14/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

Review: Affection Affection

Review: Affection Affection

Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther craft a clever and mischievous movie with its own special charm, playing skilfully on the boundary between the novelesque and the bizarre  

14/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Review: Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji takes us onto the streets of Baghdad, where children have to fend for themselves if they want to survive the constant turmoil  

14/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Review: Le Chantier

Review: Le Chantier

In his latest documentary, Jean-Stéphane Bron shows us the (re-)construction of Pathé Palace cinema and the company headquarters  

14/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Ion de Sosa • Director of Balearic

Interview: Ion de Sosa • Director of Balearic

“When I work I feel at home, with no restrictions on creativity or form"

The Basque director talks about his psychedelic tale that sits halfway between comedy and terror  

14/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: A Balcony in Limoges

Review: A Balcony in Limoges

Jérôme Reybaud’s sophomore feature, about an older woman who goes out of her way to “help” someone she knew in her childhood, is short, sweet and unexpected  

13/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Don’t Let Me Die

Review: Don’t Let Me Die

Andrei Epure’s eerie first feature cheekily asks us whether we are a little bit dead inside  

13/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

Interview: Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

"The political is already in the poetry"

The Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending archaeology, oral history and local myth into a docu-fiction, and how her approach reflects the layered landscapes of Alentejo  

13/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Mosquitoes

Review: Mosquitoes

Valentina and Nicole Bertani’s first film is a punk and queer ode to the 1990s and a portrait of a group of girls who’ve decided to tell their own story and dictate their own rules  

13/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Ben Rivers • Director of Mare’s Nest

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Mare’s Nest

“I wanted to make a film that has that unease beneath it because that’s the world we live in”

The British filmmaker talks about fusing Don DeLillo’s play with a child’s perspective, and how the film’s shifting styles reflect its protagonist’s journey and the director’s own process  

13/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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