Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream ★★ Baghdad’s gritty reality and the ancient myths lingering among its ruins intertwine with the childlike imagination of Iraq’s future young generation in Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji’s documentar…

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews the Baghdad-set #Irkalla: Giglamesh's Dream that premiered at #Locarno2025. Read below:

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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation (documentary) ★★ America has a thing with myth making, one of the prominent interviewees remarks more than half-way through Ebs Burnough’s dedicated documentary, which does just that. The charismatic collage …

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #EbsBurnough 's #KerouacsRoad, a #Locarno2025 title. Read her thoughts on the film below:

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Judas’ Gospel  ★½ From the moment blasting heavy metal music throws the blood-red opening credits on the black screen, Giulio Base’s fictional biopic of one of Christianity’s most wicked, and therefore, of cou…

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #GiulioBase 's #Locarno2025 Film Festival film #Judas'GospelMovie. Read her thoughts on the film below:

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Follies ★½ At least on the surface, Éric K. Boulianne’s uneven entry to the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present section is a sexually sophisticated comedy intent on dismantling the romanti…

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #ÉricKBoulianne 's #Follies which premiered at the #Locarno2025 Film Festival. Read below:

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Exile ★★½ Feverish colors, muted tones, and corroded surfaces immediately evoke the suffocating aura of systemic corruption haunting Mehdi Hmili’s nightmarish thriller. Its aesthetic and thematic weigh…

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #MehdiHmili 's #Locarno2025 Film Festival thriller #ExileMovie. Read her thoughts on the film below:

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Bobò (documentary) ½ If one believes director Pippo Delbono, his documentary is one of humanism and humor. In 1995, Delbono discovered Bobò during a theater workshop in a psychiatric institution in Aversa. The microcep…

#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #PippoDelbono 's documentary #Bobò. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2025 Film Festival title below:

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Review: Solomamma 13/08/2025 - Janicke Askevold’s second feature speaks of an alternative kind of motherhood which breaks the rules set by a patriarchal society intent on controlling everything

"Aesthetically elegant and austere (in the positive sense of the word) but also full of rejuvenating humour..." - Read the review of Janicke Askevold’s second feature Solomamma below. 👩‍👦 The #Locarno2025 title explores single motherhood from a fresh angle: cineuropa.org/482165

Cine europeo en el Festival de Locarno 2025: críticas de “Le Lac” y “Le bambine” (Competencia Internacional) Cine europeo en el Festival de Locarno 2025: críticas de “Le Lac” y “Le bambine” (Competencia Internacional) Las películas del suizo Fabrice Aragno y de las italianas Valentina y Nicole Bertani...

Cine europeo en el Festival de Locarno 2025: críticas de la suiza “Le Lac” y la italiana “Le bambine” (Competencia Internacional)
#Locarno78 #Locarno2025
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“In the Land of Arto” Review: Armenia’s Ghosts, a Widow’s Wound, and the Trouble With a Story That’s Already Decided Where It Has to End.

Full review:
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Especial CINE ARGENTINO en el FESTIVAL DE LOCARNO: críticas de HIJO MAYOR, de Cecilia Kang, y OLIVIA, de Sofía Petersen, ambos estrenos mundiales en la competencia oficial Cineasti del Presente.
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Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dry Leaf”, de Alexandre Koberidze (Competencia Internacional) Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dry Leaf”, de Alexandre Koberidze (Competencia Internacional) El director de Let The Summer Never Come Again (2017) y What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (202...

Algo más de la cobertura del Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dry Leaf”, del gran Alexandre Koberidze. Estreno mundial en la Competencia Internacional
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After a short with Vicky Krieps in 2018, Berlin-based Chinese photographer Lan-Xi Ruan presents her debut The Plant from the Canaries at #Locarno2025 FotP. A rather depressing and probably personal DFFB diploma feature, this film about a break-up resembles a therapeutic exercise.

Ehrenleopard für Iranerin - Golshifteh Farahani: «Das Kino ist mein Lebensgefährte» Die iranische Schauspielerin ist eine starke Stimme gegen das Regime im Iran. In Locarno erhielt sie den Ehrenleoparden.

#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
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Symbol für die Frauenbewegung im #Iran Ehrenleopard für die iranische Schauspielerin Golshifteh Farahani
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Trailer for “With Hasan in Gaza,” conceived by Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, which had its world premiere in the Concorso Internazionale at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.

Our review of the film:
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With his short at the 2021 Cannes Critics Week, Romanian Andrei Epure developed his debut Don't Let Me Die at Next Step and Cinefondation, now launched at #Locarno2025 FotP for Lights On. Gentle and absurd, the film struggles to really take off and to engage the viewer, despite technical qualities.

“With Hasan in Gaza”: A gripping visual time capsule that stumbles as a quest narrative, yet delivers an unflinching portrait of a place marked for erasure.

Full review:
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Review: The Birthday Party 11/08/2025 - Spanish helmer Miguel Ángel Jiménez stages a birthday extravaganza led by Willem Dafoe and based on Greek writer Panos Karnezis’s eponymous novel

👁️‍🗨️ #cinema "Miguel Ángel Jiménez is a Spanish director by blood, but his features are a prime example of what a 'European' film is today. [...] The cast is multi-national, and so are the characters..." -
Read the review of #Locarno2025 Piazza Grande entry The Birthday Party:
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Review: With Hasan in Gaza 11/08/2025 - Kamal Aljafari’s documentary offers an unvarnished meditation on the cyclical nature of loss, the persistence of erasure, and the fragile yet enduring traces of humanity that linger in be...

"The images carry a political charge, precisely because they focus on the human." - Read the review of Kamal Aljafari’s documentary With Hasan in Gaza, which screened at #Locarno2025
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Solomamma Review: The Name of the Father Sperm donation and its consequences are the thematic and emotional core of Janicke Askevold’s comedy-drama Solomamma.

Sperm donation and its consequences are the thematic and emotional core of Janicke Askevold’s comedy-drama SOLOMAMMA, screened in competition at the Locarno Film Festival!

Read @maxborg89.bsky.social's review!

#LocarnoFilmFestival #Locarno2025

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Celtic Utopia Review: Ireland’s Past & Present Celtic Utopia (Útóipe Cheilteach) is a remarkable film that portrays the folk music scene of Ireland and its relationship to its history.

This remarkable documentary from the Locarno Film Festival encompasses a whole country and an important part of its history in 90 minutes! 🤩

Read @willstot94.bsky.social's review of CELTIC UTOPIA (Útóipe Cheilteach)!

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Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival Sold by The Coproduction Office, ‘The Fin’ questions social divisions in a dystopian unified Korea.

Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival variety.com/2025/film/gl... #locarno2025 #thefin #koreancinema

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dracula”, de Radu Jude (Competencia Internacional) Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dracula”, de Radu Jude (Competencia Internacional) Tras presentar en febrero último la notable Kontinental '25 en la Berlinale, donde ganó el premio...

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Dracula”, nueva película del siempre provocador director rumano Radu Jude. Estreno mundial en la Competencia Internacional de #locarno2025 #locarno78
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The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike A charismatic Dafoe commands the screen as a Greek alpha-patriarch, throwing a claustrophobic celebration for his second favourite child

My review of The Birthday Party (dir. Miguel Àngel Jiménez) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #locarno #locarno78 #locarno2025

The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness

My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #locarno
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Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults

My review of Mare’s Nest (dir. Ben Rivers) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #locarno #locarno78 #locarno2025

Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflement

My review of Mektoub My Love: Canto Due (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #locarno #locarno78 #locarno2025

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “The Fin”, película de Syeyoung Park (Cineasti del Presente) Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “The Fin”, película de Syeyoung Park (Cineasti del Presente) El segundo largometraje del director coreano de The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (2023) propone un enigm&aa...

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “The Fin”, película post-apocalíptica del coreano Syeyoung Park. Estreno mundial en la competencia Cineasti del Presente.
#Locarno78 #Locarno2025
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Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Mare’s Nest”, película de Ben Rivers (Competencia Internacional) Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Mare’s Nest”, película de Ben Rivers (Competencia Internacional) El director inglés presentó una muy poco convencional transposición de la ob...

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “Mare’s Nest”, película del inglés Ben Rivers. Estreno mundial en la Competencia Internacional
#Locarno78 #Locarno2025
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North And South Korea Are Reunified In Syeyoung Park’s Locarno Competition Title ‘The Fin’ — First Trailer Locarno runs until August 16.

North And South Korea Are Reunified In Syeyoung Park’s Locarno Competition Title ‘The Fin’ — First Trailer deadline.com/2025/08/syey... #thefin #locarno2025

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “White Snails”, película de Elsa Kremser y Levin Peter (Competencia Internacional) Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de “White Snails”, película de Elsa Kremser y Levin Peter (Competencia Internacional) Los codirectores de Space Dogs (2019) y Dreaming Dogs (2024) regresaron a Locarn...

Festival de Locarno 2025: crítica de WHITE SNAILS, película de Elsa Kremser y Levin Peter, codirectores del muy controvertido documental "Space Dogs" (2019). Estreno mundial en la Competencia Internacional de #Locarno78 #Locarno2025
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