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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Review: Cat in the Wall

Review: Cat in the Wall

Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s first fiction feature explores the challenges of being an immigrant in London  

16/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Echo

Review: Echo

Rúnar Rúnarsson’s film is not another Christmas movie  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Damien Manivel  • Director of Isadora’s Children

Interview: Damien Manivel • Director of Isadora’s Children

"I try to always look at the actors as if they were dancing"

French director Damien Manivel tells us about his latest film Isadora’s Children, screening in International Competition in Locarno  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

João Nicolau  • Director of Technoboss

Interview: João Nicolau • Director of Technoboss

“As a director, the use of music in film is one of the subjects that interests me the most”

Portuguese director João Nicolau talks to us about his latest film Technoboss screened in competition in Locarno  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Rúnar Rúnarsson • Director of Echo

Interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson • Director of Echo

“Making Echo was like jumping into a deep pool in complete darkness”

Cineuropa caught up with Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson, who is showing his latest film, Echo, at Locarno  

13/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Maya Da-Rin • Director of The Fever

Interview: Maya Da-Rin • Director of The Fever

“Cinema has the propensity to exoticize indigenous peoples”

Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin tells us about her debut feature, The Fever, selected in competition in Locarno  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Isadora’s Children

Review: Isadora’s Children

France’s Damien Manivel brings together his two great passions, film and dance, to create an exacting and poignant choreographic film  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Technoboss

Review: Technoboss

João Nicolau’s latest film stars first-timer Miguel Lobo Antunes, in a comic, refreshing study of ageing (and life)  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: A Girl Missing

Review: A Girl Missing

With his new film Kôji Fukada once again questions the seeming stability of Japanese society  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Twelve Thousand

Review: Twelve Thousand

With determination and a surprising dose of good humour and poetry, Nadège Trebal’s film examines the vicissitudes of two soul mates in pursuit of their own kind of happiness  

09/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

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