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REPORT: Locarno 2023

Cineuropa is covering the 76th Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2023
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74 articles available in total starting from 16/09/2022. Last article published on 28/09/2023.

Katharina Huber  • Director of A Good Place

Interview: Katharina Huber • Director of A Good Place

“It was important to me that the film should not look too picturesque or too pretty”

We talked with the German director about her inspiration for and her artistic approach to her dystopian feature debut  

28/09/2023 | /Germany

Antonella Di Nocera, Leonardo Di Costanzo  • Producer and supervisor of Procida

Interview: Antonella Di Nocera, Leonardo Di Costanzo • Producer and supervisor of Procida

“The freshness and purity of these young people's perspectives were fundamental elements in the narrative”

The producer and the artistic director of the project, shot by the 12 young people from Campania who participated in the 2022 Film Atelier in Procida, discuss the process behind it and the result  

14/09/2023 | /Italy

Ran Huang  • Director of What Remains

Interview: Ran Huang • Director of What Remains

“It's not about the truth, but about my understanding of it”

The Chinese director gives us the low-down on his unusual serial-killer story and his encounter with the Skarsgård family  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of competition

Victoria Musiedlak  • Director of First Case

Interview: Victoria Musiedlak • Director of First Case

“I’m interested in how a profession can change a person, and how a person will have to change to deal with their surroundings”

The debut feature by the French director stars Noée Abita as a young defence lawyer at the very beginning of her career  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Dominic Sangma  • Director of Rapture

Interview: Dominic Sangma • Director of Rapture

“We need to stop, pause and see what's really happening behind the veil of fear”

The Indian director enlightens us on the ways of translating the past into a cinematic, fictional present  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Hugues Hariche  • Director of Rivière

Interview: Hugues Hariche • Director of Rivière

“The idea was to start with this damaged character and see how she could escape from her situation through her encounters”

The Swiss-French director breaks down the inspiration for his intimate coming-of-age film, his approach to the aesthetics and what ice hockey means to him personally  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro  • Directors of On the Go

Interview: María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro • Directors of On the Go

“How can you consider being a mother when it's the first time that the doors are wide open for female filmmakers?”

The Spanish directors of the experimental road movie open up about motherhood and self-love  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Review: First Case

Review: First Case

The film by French director Victoria Musiedlak shows the complicated daily life of a young lawyer at grips with her first homicide case  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Claudia Rorarius  • Director of Touched

Interview: Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

“I try to get as close as possible to understanding life and emotions”

The German director's first feature depicts an uneasy, but striking, story of two lonesome souls, a relationship rarely seen on the screen before  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Simone Bozzelli  • Director of Patagonia

Interview: Simone Bozzelli • Director of Patagonia

“In my film, the strongest substance is love”

The Italian director tells the story of a relationship of emotional dependency between violence and tenderness, and tells us of an Italy too often forgotten  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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