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Locarno 2024


107 articles available in total starting from 22/01/2024. Last article published on 24/01/2025.

Review: The Life Apart

Review: The Life Apart

The rich and conformist northeast of Italy forms the backdrop to Marco Tullio Giordana’s dramatic story about prejudice and family ambiguities redeemed by musical talent  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: When the Phone Rang

Review: When the Phone Rang

In her third feature, Iva Radivojević goes through memories of having to emigrate as a child in the time when the war in Yugoslavia started  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

"Oftentimes, you look at cinema and it's all about content, or all about the form, but I want them to work together in order to create a universe"

The British filmmaker tells us about his interest in repetition, as evidenced in his latest film, and his editing process  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Series review: Endangered Species

Series review: Endangered Species

Bruno Deville's latest series offers a convergence of personal and environmental turmoil within a small Swiss community  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Lesson Learned

Review: Lesson Learned

Bálint Szimler’s school drama questions the outdated methods of the Hungarian educational system by employing a masterful docufiction approach, albeit without achieving a full-blooded discussion  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Tato Kotetishvili • Director of Holy Electricity

Interview: Tato Kotetishvili • Director of Holy Electricity

"As my background is in cinematography, it was hard to let someone else shoot it"

The Georgian cinematographer-turned-director talks about his feature directorial debut, a production for which he wears multiple hats, serving as director, screenwriter, producer and DoP  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

Interview: Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

"A lot of Irish women are very polite in public but, internally, they are screaming, they are funny, irreverent and sometimes rude and it is so refreshing"

We met with the Irish director whose latest film, starring two amazing female characters, is about inherited trauma and how we deal with it  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

Interview: Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

"We wanted to make a moving film, instead of being critical or distant"

The Catalan filmmaker discusses her newest film, a genre-bending look at postpartum depression and the irrational aspects of motherhood  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Locarno’s Open Doors announces new focus on Africa, crowns Salvación and El único tiempo as its big winners

Locarno’s Open Doors announces new focus on Africa, crowns Salvación and El único tiempo as its big winners

Among the other victors were Rosa María Rodríguez’s Her Lightness, Fernando Luis Mendoza Salazar’s Huaco retrato and Rob Mendoza’s UFOs in the Tropic  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Locarno Pro/Awards

Review: Red Path

Review: Red Path

Lotfi Achour portrays the psychological impact of trauma within a politically charged landscape after a jihadist attack shatters a young boy’s life  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

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