Locarno Film Festival
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Locarno 2023: Critical Zone (Mantagheye bohrani) | Review
Taking place over a single night, Ali Ahmadzadeh unveils an underseen group of Iranian citizens looking to score and forget…
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Locarno 2023: Dreaming & Dying (Hao jiu bu jian) | Review
A spell-binding story about a couple’s journey into the unknown. Spearheaded by splendid cinematography and hypnotic images, Nelson Yeo dives…
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Locarno Film Festival 2022: Fledglings (Critics’ Week) | Review
In Fledglings (Pisklaki), veteran documentarian Lidia Duda delivers a heartbreaking and inspiring story on pure souls and humanity through visually…
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Locarno Film Festival 2022: ‘Semret’ (Piazza Grande) | Review
A single mother tries to hide her past when her teenage daughter pressures her to learn more about her origins…
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Locarno Film Festival 2022: ‘Matter Out of Place’ (Concorso Internazionale) | Review
The most recent cinematic and important film about our deteriorating earth. Nikolas Geyrhalter’s Matter Out of Place is a visually…
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Locarno Film Festival 2022: ‘Serviam – I Will Serve’ (Concorso Internazionale) | Review
Ruth Mader creates an unsettling environment using the backdrop of religion and young females in her latest, Serviam – I…
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Locarno Film Festival 2022: Stella in Love (Concorso Internazionale) | Review
Sylvie Verheyde’s latest film, Stella in Love, explores the hardships of growing up and longing for love with a vibrant…
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Locarno Film Festival 2021: ‘Virgin Blue’ Review (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
An elusive impression of a family’s intersection of its past and present emanates from Niu Xiaoyu’s Virgin Blue, presented at…
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Locarno Film Festival 2021: Mostro (Concorso Cineasti del presente) | Review
An auspicious dreamy debut by Jose Pablo Escamilla, tells a Mexican story of corruption and disorientation, now playing at the…
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Locarno Film Festival 2021: Medea (Concorso Internazionale) | Review
Alexander Zeldovich’s thrilling odyssey into liberation is commanded by a transfiguring performance by Tinatin Dalakishvili, in Medea, presented at the…
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