Jul 22, 2018
Dir/scr: Felix Randau. Germany/Italy/Austria. 2017. 97 mins
Felix Randau opts for a rather unimaginative approach in this imagined drama about the final days of Alpine warrior Otzi, whose perfectly preserved body...
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Jul 12, 2018
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian has unveiled his final line-up with an exciting eclectic selection of titles spanning mainstream and arthouse fare due to run at the picturesque Lake Maggiore setting...
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May 6, 2018
Dir: Stefanie Brockhaus, Andres Wolff | Cast: HIssa Hilal | Drama | 89' | Saudi/Germany
Hissa Hilal, Saudi poet and political activist in her forties, has made some ground-breaking literary efforts...
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Jan 31, 2018
For the 71st Locarno Festival the British-Swiss design studio Jannuzzi Smith has created an abstract series of patterns to represent our symbol – the leopard. Drops of black ink spread...
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Oct 3, 2017
Dir: Sierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez | Doc | US | 74'
Pettengill and Velez' entertaining documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) entirely...
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Sep 18, 2017
Dir: Annemarie Jacir. Palestine-France-Germany-Colombia-Norway-Qatar-United Arab Emirates. 2017. 96’
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir conjures up a well-paced and watchable family drama fraught with difficulties for the patriarch and his prodigal architect son,...
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Aug 17, 2017
Dir: Shevaun Mizrahi | USA/Turk/Ned | Doc | 80'
An Istanbul retirement home is playfully haunted by the rich and colourful memories of its battle-scarred occupants in this impressive and gracefully...
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Aug 12, 2017
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Golden Leopard
MRS. FANG by WANG Bing, France, China, Germany
Special Jury Prize
AS BOAS MANEIRAS by Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra, Brazil, France
Best Direction
F. J. OSSANG for 9 DOIGTS, France, Portugal
Best Actress
ISABELLE...
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Aug 10, 2017
Dir: Radu Jude | Doc | 83' | Romania
Radu Jude's astonishing documentary follow-up to Aferim! is a chronicle of Romania's anti-semitism during the late 1930s-1940s told entirely from the perspective of...
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