Sofia Bohdanowicz has always been a filmmaker unafraid to mine the uncomfortable depths of her own, and her family’s, history. Across 10 years of…
Aaron Schimberg’s third feature, A Different Man, is a genre-bending character portrait of Edward (Sebastian Stan, wearing a prosthetic mask), a lonely and failed…
Funny how tastes change. Grand Illusion was almost certainly the Renoir consensus pick for many years — it was a box office smash in…
Among the boldest of the great Argentine films that emerged at the start of the 2000s was Lisandro Alonso’s 2001 debut La Libertad, a…
2024 has been the most prolific year of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s career; last February he presented at the Berlinale Chime, his long-awaited comeback to the…
The title card hovers over an image of trolley tracks rushing toward the camera. A lulling piano serenades the words Passing Strangers, both heralded…
With four features and twice as many short films under his belt, writer-director Kazik Radwanski has become one of the leading lights of Canadian…
Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez premiered their new film, Invention, at Locarno last month, not quite sure what kind of life or reception it…
Because of the sheer breadth of work on display — 10 programs, with an average of seven or eight films per program — the…
Nathan Silver is perhaps best known for his prodigious output, releasing nine feature films period of 2012 to 2019. His prolificness is made all…
Zach Clark’s films embody so many of the inspiring qualities of great low-budget filmmaking: scrappy, rough-and-ready production values stretched to feel more expensive than…
Last Saturday, August 17, the Locarno Film Festival ended and of the biggest name that was snubbed from the awards ceremony was Ramon Zürcher.…
Director Christoph Hochhäusler arrived on the international scene in the early aughts, as the film world began discovering a plethora of unique, formally inventive…
On September 13, 2022, Masha Amini, a young 22-year-old girl was arrested by the Iranian religious morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab…
British filmmaker Ben Rivers is competing in the 2024 Locarno Film Festival with his newest film, Bogancloch. It is Rivers’ second feature about Jake…
In his introduction on his website, director Peter Waktins states that “The production and the organizing of [The Journey was] on a scale that…
Early in India Donaldson’s Good One, a balanced hiking trip of four is quickly cut down to three, shifting the dynamics for teenager Sam…
Like an oak presiding over what came before and what might follow, Kier-La Janisse’s documentary study Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021) roots folk…