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10976 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 31/08/2025.

Adele Tulli • Director of Real

Interview: Adele Tulli • Director of Real

“What interests me is understanding what is happening in our lives”

The Italian director tells us about the genesis of her film, but also about the relationship, at once cathartic and perverse, that our society has with new technologies  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Agora

Review: Agora

Ala Eddine Slim’s film merges auteur thriller with fable to explore socio-political unrest in Tunisia through the mysterious return of the dead  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

Interview: Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

Interview: Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

“I mock the patriarchy and machismo, but there is nothing to laugh about”

The Dubai-based Kazakh director believes that toxic masculinity and sexism can be battled with reason instead of force  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Fario

Review: Fario

In her debut feature, Lucie Prost follows the adventures of a young man confronted with trauma that he can’t overcome, with repressed emotions that burn inside like poison  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Dragon Dilatation

Review: Dragon Dilatation

Bertrand Mandico’s seductive feature film catapults us into a utopian world where desire and decadence duet with utmost elegance, like two ballerinas about to take to the stage  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

The new film by Mehdi M Barsaoui, the director of A Son, follows a young woman who seizes her chance to start a new life, but everything is soon compromised  

14/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

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