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87 articles available in total starting from 28/03/2025. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

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 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Rosanne Pel • Director of Donkey Days

Interview: Rosanne Pel • Director of Donkey Days

“The need for control comes from within a social construct that has been shaped over time”

The Dutch filmmaker speaks about her unconventional process for making her latest movie, zooming in on the internalised conflicts that many women face  

13/08 | 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 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Exile

Review: Exile

Mehdi Hmili's film is an ambient, slow-burning vengeance flick that becomes, inadvertently perhaps, a comment on a masculinity crisis  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Desire Lines

Review: Desire Lines

The latest enigmatic film by Dane Komljen sees him tackling topics such as trauma, the uncertainty of identity and the unreliability of memory  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Becoming

Review: Becoming

Zhannat Alshanova tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl grappling with an absent mother which heightens her desire to join a mysterious community of female swimmers  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Solomamma

Review: Solomamma

Janicke Askevold’s second feature speaks of an alternative kind of motherhood which breaks the rules set by a patriarchal society intent on controlling everything  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Sweetheart

Review: Sweetheart

For her debut feature, Margherita Spampinato uses the template of the generational gap, but examines more layers of it  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Judas’ Gospel

Review: Judas’ Gospel

With his newest feature, Giulio Base tries to tell the story of Christ from Judas’ point of view, in a compelling way  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Geneva and Neuchâtel to roll out cash-rebate schemes to lure filmmakers

Geneva and Neuchâtel to roll out cash-rebate schemes to lure filmmakers

Geneva has launched a film commission and will instigate a 30% rebate in 2026, whilst Neuchâtel is testing a pilot scheme offering up to 15% back on local spend  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

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