Pardi di Domani

Vaconselos transports the story to our time where the voice gets muted and transformed into a ‘scored’ conversation between forest spirits…

Featuring acute narration by Jacob Banigan, which occasionally dips into didacticism, ‘Hardly Working’ argues that capitalism has no end-goal.

Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. return to the topic of the individuality loss and repetetivness in life previously explored in …

‘Diamond Kid’ is a meditation on human urge to control, or readiness to be controlled

A joy for one person can be a pain for the other.

Traditionally good in storyline suspense building, the Greek director Thanasis Neofotistos is back on the festival scene with his dramedy ‘AirHostess-737’, which screenes in Locarno’s Pardi di Domani international competition program.

‘Fairplay’ is a complexly envisioned mosaic film that proves the point in an extremely audience-friendly package blending thriller, drama and social satire.

The two stories, one individual portrait of a person used to exist in quite rigid and uneventful environment marked by the never-changing routines, and a group portrait of “easy riders”, come to a joint end in the setting resembling a Western movie, dipped in warm colours of the 16mm footage.