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2288 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 08/07/2025.

Rule 34 wins the Golden Leopard in Locarno

Rule 34 wins the Golden Leopard in Locarno

The festival put the powerful and radical film by Brazilian director Júlia Murat on the top step of the podium, while the films by Alessandro Comodin and Valentina Maurel also won awards  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Awards

Review: Stella in Love

Review: Stella in Love

Sylvie Verheyde’s seventh feature is an atmospheric vintage revisiting of her teenage years, spent on the verge of an adulthood which seems to offer scant prospects  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Sermon to the Fish

Review: Sermon to the Fish

A no-frills film boasting beauty and soul, Hilal Baydarov’s ninth feature ponders what remains after winning a war  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: De noche los gatos son pardos

Review: De noche los gatos son pardos

Valentin Merz’s captivating debut feature film is a destabilising portrait of an alternative society dominated by instincts  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Safe Place

Review: Safe Place

One brother tries to save another in an unsympathetic environment and against all odds in Juraj Lerotić's psychologically charged debut  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

Interview: Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

“It’s all about breaking down walls and old ideas”

The Angola-born Portuguese director isn’t writing off the past just yet  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Piaffe

Review: Piaffe

The first feature film by contemporary artist and director Ann Oren explores a physical mutation which becomes a proud and contemptuous identity claim  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

Interview: Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

"I believe that nowadays, many adolescents find themselves very much alone and have a hard time finding their own voices"

The French helmer goes back in time by reflecting on her youth, more than a decade after her first autobiographical film Stella  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann quotes Beau Travail in her latest feature, the slowest example of slow cinema in recent memory  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Serviam - I Will Serve

Review: Serviam - I Will Serve

Austrian director Ruth Mader demonstrates great lucidity while investigating the consequences of a mysticism which morphs into fanaticism  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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