Locarno Reviews
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‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road
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‘Toxic’: Locarno Review
Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town
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‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son
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‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror
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‘Luce’: Locarno Review
A lonely leather worker takes extreme steps to forge a connection in this Northern Italy-set Locarno competition title
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‘Death Will Come’: Locarno Review
A female contract killer takes on a job for a prominent gangster in Christoph Hochhausler’s Brussels-set noir
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‘Critical Zone’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s controversial Golden Leopard winner takes a trip through Tehran’s night-time underbelly
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‘Dreaming & Dying’: Locarno Review
Double prize winner at Locarno is an aquatic, magical realist tale from Singapore
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‘First Case’: Locarno Review
Rising French star Noee Abita impresses as a legal assistant given the chance to work on a high-stakes case in rural France
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‘Family Portrait’: Locarno Review
US artist Lucy Kerr makes her debut with an unnerving Texas drama starring Deragh Campbell
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‘Falling Stars’: Locarno Review
A witch’s curse and a Wiccan revival form the basis of this US indie thriller, premiering on the Piazza Grande
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‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World’: Locarno Review
Radu Jude’s latest follows a beleagured Bucharest production assistant casting for a safety at work video
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‘Animal’: Locarno Review
A troupe of entertainers at an all-inclusive Greek island resort dig into a new season in Sofia Exarchou’s follow-up to ‘Park’
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‘The Falling Star’: Locarno Review
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s typically-quirky comedy plays out in a Belgian beer bar
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‘Rule 34’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s Golden Leopard winner is a sensually intimate character study tackling hot-button subject matter
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‘You Will Not Have My Hate’: Locarno Review
One family’s grief in the wake of the 2015 Bataclan attack is chronicled in this sensitive, moving drama
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‘Matter Out Of Place’: Locarno Review
Nikolaus Geyrhalter returns with a sober, engrossing study of the waste society creates