Thoughts unfit for contemporary survival
Film festivals were invented as propaganda, not out of love for cinema. Ehsan Khoshbakht, curator of Locarno's retrospective on the Hollywood blacklist, on how a small lie becomes a spectacle — and why nobody involved was actually paranoid.
What happens to a man raised on excellence and merit when they stop being enough? Florin Șerban's film won the Golden Leopard at Locarno with a story about a father, a son, and a murder nobody wants to call one. We talked about tragedy without gods, and about what our times lack.
Israeli director Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit, Let It Be Morning) discusses his new film Some Notes on the Current Situation, presented at the Locarno Film Festival—a work blending absurdism, politics, and philosophy in today’s turbulent world.
