Ethan Saks

75 Locarno Film Festival

Piaffe
Concorso internazionale Germany · 2022

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her ta…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Nação Valente (Tommy Guns)
In 1974, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad is barracked inside a wall from which they w…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Matter Out of Place
Concorso internazionale Austria · 2022
Matter Out of Place is a film about waste in remote areas and about people who are trying to clean up. Matter Out of Place is capturing the dispersion of garbage and is observing the Sisyphus-like work of garbage collectors and waste managers…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Il Pataffio

Concorso internazionale
Italy, Belgium · 2022

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren’t willing to be ruled. Profane appetites and holy ye…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Human Flowers of Flesh
Concorso internazionale Germany, France · 2022

Ida lives on a ship with a crew of five men. In Marseille her attention is caught by the secretive male world of the French Foreign Legion and she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. As Ida and her crew sail via Corsica…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Hikayat elbeit elorjowani
(Tales of the Purple House)

Concorso internazionale
Lebanon, Iraq, France · 2022

From their ’Purple House’ in the South of Lebanon, French-Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel and his Lebanese wife, the painter Nour Ballouk, start exploring a multifaceted country that seems to be on the edge…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival
Concorso internazionale Italy, France, Belgium · 2022

Gigi la legge (The Adventures of Gigi the Law)
Gigi is a rural traffic officer where nothing ever happens. One day however, a young girl throws herself under a train. This is not the first time. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Annie Colère (Angry Annie)
February 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two children, comes into contact with the MLAC; an organization that performs illegal abortions in broad daylight. Welcomed by the movement founded on tangible help for women and shared knowledge, Annie…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit.
(Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.)

This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behind the stories on a whole new level. “Fantasy is usually tr…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival
De noche los gatos son pardos

A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigate, the filming continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, keeps a promise and reaches the Mexican P…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Bowling Saturne
(Saturn Bowling)

Concorso internazionale
France, Belgium · 2022

When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of…[Leggi tutto]