Locarno

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.

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.

Moon

Aug 13, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Kurdwin Ayub’s sophomore feature about a mixed martial arts trainer on peculiar assignment to housebound sisters in Jordan offers sensationalist suspense but few layers of depth.

Transamazonia

Aug 12, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Acts of faith, plunder and resistance deep in the Amazon are the territory of a majestic and hallucinatory but heavy-handed anti-colonial thriller from Pia Marais.

Holy Electricity

Aug 11, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Tato Kotetishvili’s Georgian debut is a scrappily episodic and freewheeling, dry-humoured celebration of down-and-out margins brimming with eccentric personality.

Invention

Aug 11, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

A woman processes the death of her father, a controversial inventor of healing gadgets in a conspiracy-prone America, in this droll, intriguing docufiction.

Drowning Dry

Aug 10, 2024 | Festivals, International Oscars 2025, Locarno, Locarno 2024

A family derailed by a swimming accident struggles to make sense of the trauma in Laurynas Bareisa’s haunting and profoundly disorienting drama.

The Sparrow in the Chimney

Aug 10, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Ramon Zürcher’s utterly distinctive talent for twisting the domestic into the uncanny gains intensity in a cutting psychological horror as thrilling as it is elliptical and dark.

Fréwaka

Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Taboo histories of violence against women in Ireland are excavated in Aislinn Clarke’s chilling, over-the-top Irish-language folk horror.

Bogancloch

Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024

Ben Rivers revisits hermit Jake Williams in Scottish woodland for a sparse, mysterious and music-oriented doc on life off the grid in gathering crisis.

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