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28 articles available in total starting from 06/07/2022. Last article published on 16/08/2022.

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Review: De noche los gatos son pardos

Review: De noche los gatos son pardos

Valentin Merz’s captivating debut feature film is a destabilising portrait of an alternative society dominated by instincts  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Safe Place

Review: Safe Place

One brother tries to save another in an unsympathetic environment and against all odds in Juraj Lerotić's psychologically charged debut  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

Interview: Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

“It’s all about breaking down walls and old ideas”

The Angola-born Portuguese director isn’t writing off the past just yet  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Piaffe

Review: Piaffe

The first feature film by contemporary artist and director Ann Oren explores a physical mutation which becomes a proud and contemptuous identity claim  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

Interview: Sylvie Verheyde • Director of Stella in Love

"I believe that nowadays, many adolescents find themselves very much alone and have a hard time finding their own voices"

The French helmer goes back in time by reflecting on her youth, more than a decade after her first autobiographical film Stella  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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

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