The New Old – Locarno 75
One of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world, Locarno turned 75 this year, an anniversary edition that celebrates the rich tradition of the Swiss festival through screenings, retrospectives, and honorary awards that are handed in the Piazza Grande to names such as Costa Gavras, Matt Dillon and Kelly Reichardt. In the seven editions that have passed since I've started attending the festival, three artistic directors have changed, each with a different vision of what and how things should be screened, but with most claiming to change the face of the event and to renew it, when perhaps all a solid event needs is a flexible continuity, in step with the times it is going through.
Film critic and programmer, she collaborates with various international film festivals. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Senses of Cinema, Kinoscope, Indiewire, Film Comment, Vague Visages and Desistfilm. In Spanish she has written for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine and in Romanian she collaborates with FILM magazine. Programmer and coordinator of Tenerife Shorts.
