This year’s festival was the site of more than a few alternately jarring and fruitful clashes.
Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
With Ray & Liz, Richard Billingham delivers a richly evocative portrait of working-class life in the British Midlands.
Growing pains and burgeoning sexual identity take center stage in several titles duking it out for the Pardo d’Oro at this year’s festival.
It was a shame that no special anniversary prize was created and bestowed on The Wandering Soap Opera.
In Milla director Valérie Massadian’s hands, the minor and the major are one and the same.
Cocote will have its world premiere on Wednesdy, August 3 at the Swiss festival.
At most festivals, such curious objects as The Ornithologist or The Human Surge would likely remain the exception rather than the rule, but then Locarno isn’t most festivals.
In the hands of a lesser director, all of The Ornithologist’s competing signs would likely shake themselves apart.
It’s with a combination of curiosity, excitement, and concern that one approaches a new project by such an obvious talent as Lois Patiño.
How wonderful it is to watch a film that pays attention to life’s finer textures.
The real test of a festival must, at some point, come down to the strength of its new titles.
Andrew Cividino’s short film Sleeping Giant shares The Dirties’s themes of bullying and peer pressure.
The Locarno competition got back on track and then some with the arrival of Pedro Costa’s long-awaited Horse Money.
It’s no wonder that film festivals are schizophrenic creatures, given the number of different functions they have to perform simultaneously.
For the 11 days over which the 66th Locarno Film Festival took place, the Swiss city was a colony of leopards.
Exhibition is a pained and probing study of a couple’s declining marriage.