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2630 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 28/09/2026.

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

Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

Interview: Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

"Everything we produce or use ends up to be trash at some point"

The Austrian documentary maker gives a multi-perspective view of the global handling of trash  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

Interview: Helena Wittmann • Director of Human Flowers of Flesh

"When I am writing a scene, it’s really about the moment"

The German filmmaker and visual artist reflects on her artistic approach and the investigative drive behind her second slow-paced hypnotic feature  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno competition title Matter Out of Place

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno competition title Matter Out of Place

Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s new feature is about human-made refuse, which surrounds us everywhere, all the time  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

This sensitive and at times surreal depiction of a rural policeman (the director’s own uncle) marks the mighty comeback of Alessandro Comodin  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Il pataffio

Review: Il pataffio

Francesco Lagi’s movie is a ramshackle affair: occasionally strange and enjoyable, it’s mostly characterised by an irregular pace, and suffers from an overbearing film legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Tommy Guns

Review: Tommy Guns

The past turns into the present and the present into the past in Carlos Conceição's interesting take on one country’s troubled legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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