Dir/Wri: Pedro Costa | Cast: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado Portugal Drama 104mins Drenched in profoundly mannered grief, Pedro Costa’s tortuously paced HORSE MONEY (CAVALO DINHEIRO) is a magnificent monument and/or an egregious...

Dir.: Jim Jarmusch; Cast: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark; USA 1984, 89 min. Writer/director Jim Jarmush (*1953) developed his first feature film Stranger than Paradise from an earlier...

Dir: Whit Stilman | US Drama 98' Whit Stilman's first stab at social satire feels very dated to the modern gaze, yet thirty years ago it much have been ground-breaking with...

Locarno Film Festival is still going ahead in its discreet lakeside setting but will be a more streamlined initiative, devised by Artistic Director Lili Hinstin, largely for the locals, as was this...

Dir: Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | Experimental, Drama | UK 97 minutes Krabi is not just an exotic beach location in Thailand where you can ‘get a massage”, as a one banal...

Dir: Juliana Rojas/Marco Dutra | Brazil, France | Fantasy Drama | 135' Good Manners is a lyrical werewolf fantasy fable that explores class, sexuality and unconditional love in contemporary São Paulo. Handling its...

Dir/Wri:Cast: Stéphane Demoustier | Cast: Melissa Guers, Roschdy Zem, Anaïs Demoustier, Chiara Mastroianni, Annie Mercier, Pascal-Pierre Garbarini Wilful nonchalance comes across as evil in this sophisticated social thriller from Stephane Demoustier based on...

Artistic Director Lilli Hinstin and the Locarno Festival selection film committee today released a shortlist of twenty full length features that will receive support for their teams who were forced...

John Waters was born in 1946 into a well-to-do Catholic family in Baltimore where he was educated privately. But his life’s work was to be far from ‘ordinary’.  Nowadays he...