Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father Antonio arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream. A family epic that seeks to return to the past in order to reinvent the present.
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“Eldest Son” Locarno Review: Family, Memory, and Migration
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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Kurosawa Reimagined in New York
Spike Lee’s remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic relocates the story of a botched kidnapping from 1960s Japan to a vibrant, present-day New York, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright.
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‘Olivia’ Locarno Review: A Dreamlike Journey Through Patagonia’s Liminal Spaces
In Sofía Petersen’s evocative debut, a young woman searches for her father who disappears in the mountains of Patagonia. Starring Agustina Sconochini.
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‘Mosquitoes’ Locarno Review: Three Girls, One Tumultuous Summer
1997: eight-year-old Linda drifts away from her wealthy grandmother’s Swiss villa with her carefree mother Eva. In Italy, she meets Azzurra and Marta. A summer bond unites the three girls in a gang formed to protect each other, their youth, and their freedom.
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‘The Seasons’ Locarno Review: A Poetic Journey Through Portugal’s Alentejo
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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‘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.