Locarno 2024

Locarno 2024: The Verdict

Aug 18, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024, The Festival Verdict

The 2024 Locarno Film Festival spotlighted the future in more ways than one.

Locarno 2024: The Awards

Aug 18, 2024 | Locarno 2024, Festivals

‘Toxic’ (‘Akiplesa’), the first feature directed by Lithuania’s Saulé Bliuvaité, swept two top awards at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.

The Life Apart

Aug 18, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Locarno 2024

Marco Tullio Giordana deals solidly with family drama and music in Locarno premiere ‘The Life Apart’.

Toxic

Aug 17, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024, Sarajevo

Lithuanian teens pin hope on an exploitative modelling school as a way out of their dead-end town in Saule Bliuvaite’s acerbic, striking coming-of-ager.

Timestalker

Aug 16, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024

Alice Lowe returns behind the camera with her second feature ‘Timestalker’, a century-spanning rom-com screened in Locarno’s Piazza Grande.

Eight Postcards from Utopia

Aug 16, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024

Radu Jude teases the profound out of the profane with a manic, comical collage of material drawn from TV commercials produced in Romania after the collapse of its Communist regime in 1989.

looking she said I forget

Aug 15, 2024 | Locarno 2024, Festivals, Verdict Shorts

A young woman acclimatises to the rhythms of a new city while reflecting on those of her lifestyle in looking she said I forget, the heady short from Naomi Pacifique.

New Dawn Fades

Aug 15, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

A sensitive mind struggles with esoteric encounters in the Istanbul gloom in Gurcan Keltek’s spectacularly atmospheric horror.

Hanami

Aug 15, 2024 | Locarno 2024, Festivals

Although ‘Hanami’ leans a bit too hard on its magical realism elements, talented director Denise Fernandes makes up for it with an affecting coda.

In a quasi-political thriller, Ala Eddine Slim translates a nightmare of two sleeping animals into a mysterious multilayered investigative story referring to a morally and environmentally corrupt Tunisian village.