Locarno Film Festival

Taming the Garden

By Alan Ng | September 2022

NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden. The story behind…

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NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden. The story behind "the garden" is pretty incredible...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Juju Stories takes an anthological approach to its storytelling, introducing three short films that focus on hocus...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Director/animator Alessandro Rak continues to elevate his game with Yaya e Lennie: The Walking Liberty, the third...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Southeast Asia has steadily been cranking out some of the most atmospheric and haunting pictures of the last couple of...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Holy fucking shit. Brace yourselves. Rob Jabbaz’s brutal, breathless Taiwanese horror splatter fest The Sadness is...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! The Crypt Monster (Il Mostro Della Cripta) is a Giallo-infused Stranger Things, blending Italian horror with a...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! "There are no meanings," a character proclaims in Valentina De Amicis and Riccardo Spinotti's abstract...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! A sense of ever-increasing dread pervades every scene in Hleb Papou's staggering debut, The Legionnaire (Il...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! "A monster was born sitting upon my head. I nourished it. I decided to feed it. And over the years, it grew. It got into...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Giant manta rays boast the largest brains of any fish studied so far. They use that power to distinguish between...

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