Streamers were known for commissioning risky projects that studios would never touch. But Rodrigo Teixeira says they’re increasingly acting like studios.
Festival season continues to take shape with new projects from Allen, Martel, Lav Diaz, and more.
With major programming announcements coming next week, Cannes, Locarno, and Karlovy Vary are adopting radical new approaches to the programming process.
A special initiative titled “Locarno 2020 — For the Future of Films” is being launched to support directors whose films have been blocked by the pandemic.
A trio of Locarno films offer a multi-faceted look at the isolation of being a teenager, and the independent spirit required to survive it.
A new kind of AI technology can identify elements that might make a film perform better at the box office. But as creator Sami Arpa explains, the creative process is still key good to good movies.
Maya Khoury’s “Fi al-thawra” is powerful and necessary for the way that it disrupts traditional Western readings of the Syrian Revolution.
The 72nd edition of the lauded fall festival offered a wide-ranging program from brand-new Artistic Director Lili Hinstin, one that continued a mission of deeply curated picks.
A nurse tries to get revenge on her own bad luck in a frustratingly fractured new thriller from “Harmonium” director Fukada Kōji.
Costa’s latest vision of Cape Verdean immigrants — a highlight from this year’s Locarno Film Festival — is another lyrical vision of somber people confronting their past.
French provocateur Breillat currently heads the Locarno Film Festival jury.
In this essay from the Locarno Critics Academy, several new films grapple with the power of old memories.
