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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 26/06/2025.

Review: Medium

Review: Medium

Christina Ioakeimidi crafts a competent, emotional study of young love for her sophomore feature  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

Interview: Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

"This particular episode about the chaos of the revolution in the aftermath of Ceaușescu's downfall is not well known in Romania"

The director and the screenwriter discuss their film, in which they explore the civil war-like events that took place in Sibiu during the last days of 1989's Romanian Revolution  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Simone Bozzelli  • Director of Patagonia

Interview: Simone Bozzelli • Director of Patagonia

“In my film, the strongest substance is love”

The Italian director tells the story of a relationship of emotional dependency between violence and tenderness, and tells us of an Italy too often forgotten  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Libertate

Review: Libertate

Romanian helmer Tudor Giurgiu converts the real-life events of the Romanian Revolution in Sibiu into a thrilling, emotional and narrative-defying experience  

16/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Basil Da Cunha  • Director of Manga D’Terra

Interview: Basil Da Cunha • Director of Manga D’Terra

"I made a musical that pays homage to a type of music which does not get the recognition it deserves"

The Swiss-Portuguese director, whose film pays homage to the women of the Reboleira neighbourhood, talks to us with passion about the tight connection between life and cinema  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Rossosperanza

Review: Rossosperanza

The latest powerful film from Annarita Zambrano is a cruel and violent satire of respectability in a society kept captive by its small and petty privileges  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

Critical Zone wins the Golden Leopard at Locarno

The biggest awards of the festival went to three courageous and radical directors: the Iranian Ali Ahmadzadeh, the Ukrainian Maryna Vroda and the Romanian Radu Jude  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Awards

Laura Ferrés  • Director of The Permanent Picture

Interview: Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

“I am not interested in making autobiographical films; I already spend enough time with myself”

The Catalonian director has crafted an experimental and genre-blending portrait of women from different generations  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Sylvain George  • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Interview: Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

“At night, the rules don’t apply”

The French director dives into darkness in his film about a group of kids from Morocco, dreaming of escaping to Europe yet still stuck in Melilla  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Radu Jude’s eighth fiction feature seems to imply that the apocalypse might not arrive as a spectacular big bang, but rather as a flood of stupidity – and it’s actually already here  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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