Dir: Louise Donschen | Germany Drama 2026 Before Locarno’s larger, more demonstrative premieres begin clamouring for attention, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago arrives with the confidence to whisper. Set against the...

Dir/Wri: Natalka Vorozhbyt | Fantasy horror 2026 Natalka Vorozhbyt‘s latest film is one of the most unsettling entries in this year’s Locarno line-up. Scratches at the edges of horror this fantasy drama...

Dir: Peter Brunner | US Drama 2026 Peter Brunner’s Down the Arm of God arrives in Locarno’s Piazza Grande with the weight of a contemporary American parable, transforming a small Texas...

Dir: Asmahan Bkerat | Doc, Jordan, Palestine 2026 Concrete Land is the kind of confident, aesthetically rigorous debut that festival programmers relish: politically alert without lapsing into didacticism, emotionally restrained without...

Dir: Samuel Abrahams, UK, 2025, 97m. Lady is an off-kilter comedy about a lonely, narcissistic aristocrat who enlists a struggling, opportunistic filmmaker to document her every move. But as her hunger...

Dir: Felix Randau | Thriller 2026 95’ Historical truth is rarely neat, and Felix Randau’s Ich bin ein anderer embraces ambiguity with unusual confidence. Premiering at the 79th Locarno Film Festival,...

Dirs: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Drama 2026 Few contemporary filmmakers dismantle the boundaries between fantasy, folklore and cinematic artifice with the audacity of Chilean duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín...

Dir: Eléonore Saintagnan | France, 2023, 69 mins Éléonore Saintagnan’s Camping du Lac is the kind of film that slips through conventional categories with quiet confidence. Part essay film, part rural...

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival comes at a pivotal moment in world cinema. Hollywood is still navigating a period of contraction, as we experienced at this year's Cannes Film...