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Locarno 2024


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

Simon Jaquemet • Director of Electric Child

Interview: Simon Jaquemet • Director of Electric Child

“I don't fear the end of the world, but the consequences for our society will surely be dire if power is distributed unequally”

In his third feature, the Swiss director dives into the abyss of an AI-generated world  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Iranian director Leila Amini films her sister, an aspiring singer, across seven years, in a country where public singing by women is banned  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Semaine de la Critique

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

Interview: Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”

The Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the French Revolution  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

REPORT: Open Doors @ Locarno Pro 2024

REPORT: Open Doors @ Locarno Pro 2024

We take a closer look at some of the Caribbean and Latin American projects being co-produced with European partners that are taking part in the industry initiative organised by the Swiss festival  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Locarno Pro

Review: Fréwaka

Review: Fréwaka

Irish writer-director Aislinn Clarke’s second powerful feature takes us inside the psyche of a tormented character facing up to the horrors of her past  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

REPORT: First Look @ Locarno Pro 2024

REPORT: First Look @ Locarno Pro 2024

We take a closer look at four of the six Spanish projects in post-production taking part in the industry initiative organised by the Swiss festival  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Locarno Pro

Review: The Flood

Review: The Flood

With his second feature, Gianluca Jodice attempts to tell the story of the final few months of France’s last royal couple  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Review: Salve Maria

Review: Salve Maria

Mar Coll’s third feature is a close-up take on postpartum depression, teetering between feminist drama and psychological thriller  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Locarno kicks off its programme of shorts

Locarno kicks off its programme of shorts

The impossibility of escaping the past and predicting the future is explored in some of the European offerings that will screen as part of the Swiss gathering’s international shorts competition  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024

Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

Interview: Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

“I find it easier to set fiction, like a gangster film, in a city that I don't know so well”

The German director follows a gangster through Brussels in his new movie, a mixture of crime story and existentialist drama  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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