Weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of a couple of archaeologists, Maureen Fazendeiro’s film is a journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal, Alentejo, and a portrait of the people who have lived there.
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‘The Seasons’ Locarno Review: A Poetic Journey Through Portugal’s Alentejo
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‘Nova ’78’ Locarno Review: Burroughs Leads a New York Creative Explosion
Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias resurrect lost footage from the 1978 Nova Convention in New York—a three-day collision of poetry, music, performance, and provocation, spiritually helmed by William S. Burroughs.
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‘The Birthday Party’ Locarno Review: Willem Dafoe Steals the Show in a Greek Tragedy of Excess
The story is set in the late 1970s, somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island.
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‘Mare’s Nest’ Locarno Review: Childhood Adventures in a Post-Apocalyptic World
In Ben Rivers’ gently surreal fable, a precocious girl wanders a world without adults, where playful curiosity meets quiet philosophical reflection.
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‘God Will Not Help’ Locarno Review: A Mystery Beyond Words
Hana Jušić’s drama follows a Chilean woman who arrives in an isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother. Her presence unsettles the family and alters its fragile balance.
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‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Locarno Review: Time, Memory and a Vanishing World
Kamal Aljafari revisits footage he shot in 2001, uncovering a Gaza on the brink of irrevocable change. Both a time capsule and a lament, it captures lives and streets that may now exist only in memory.
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«Harvest» Review: A Paradise Lost (MUBI)
Athina Rachel Tsangari crafts a haunting portrait of a rural community on the brink of collapse. Set in an unnamed past, «Harvest» evokes a paradise quietly torn apart by fear, greed, and the slow machinery of change. A MUBI Release.
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“Weapons” Review: Horror and Havoc in Small-Town America
Zach Cregger’s latest blends social drama and horror, unraveling the dark tensions of a small town shaken by the mysterious disappearance of 17 children.
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«Materialists» Review: Romance as a Business Plan
Dakota Johnson stars as a high-end matchmaker navigating love, money, and control in Celine Song’s elegant but distant drama.
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«The Fantastic Four: First Steps» Review: Family Comes First
Matt Shakman brings a sleek, retrofuturist vision to the MCU’s most iconic superhero family, focusing on emotional stakes and narrative restraint rather than spectacle.



