Locarno Film Festival - The Film Verdict

Drowning Dry

Posted by Carmen Gray | 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

Posted by Carmen Gray | 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.

Red Path

Posted by Adham Youssef | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024 |

Lotfi Achour’s engrossing psychodrama ‘Red Path’ (‘Les enfants rouges’) is a powerful investigation into the traumatized mind of a young shepherd who witnessed the beheading of his cousin by an extremist group.

Fréwaka

Posted by Carmen Gray | 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

Posted by Carmen Gray | 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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Drowning Dry

The Sparrow in the Chimney

Red Path

Fréwaka

Bogancloch