Reviews

Dir: Sergio Castro-San Martin | Thriller 2026 The political thriller has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years, but Il Chileno distinguishes itself by refusing to trade in easy heroics....

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...