Locarno Film Festival
Locarno’s Wolfgang Tillmans Poster Offers “Image of a World in Which We Can All Live, Work Together”
The "tapestry of hope,” says the film festival's artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, "reminds us of all the unexplored potentialities of the film medium and cinema."
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Peruvian Drama ‘Reinas’ Wins Swiss Film Awards
Klaudia Reynicke’s period drama, about a father reconnecting with his two daughters amid a country's political upheaval, took the top prize for best Swiss film of the year.
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“Great Expectations”: British Postwar Cinema Gets Spotlight With Locarno Film Festival Retrospective
"British cinema made in the studio system managed to blend popular entertainment with some of the most stylistically innovative forms, elevating it to the status of art," says curator Ehsan Khoshbakht.
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Canada Focus Unveiled for Locarno Pro’s First Look Initiative
The spotlight of the works-in-progress program, in collaboration with Telefilm Canada, comes as "more and more Canadian filmmakers are on the cutting edge in their formal explorations of the possibilities."
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Film Fests 2024: Shah Rukh Khan Excites Locarno, ‘Anora’ Seduces Cannes, Erotic Fare Turns on Venice
THR's look at the good, the bad and the buzzed-about from the international festival circuit of the past year.
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Locarno: Festival’s Open Doors Program Names New Team for African Cinema Initiative
Open Doors, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented communities, will focus on the cinema from the African continent for the next four years.
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Locarno Film Festival Top Prize Goes to Lithuanian Drama ‘Toxic,’ the Feature Debut of Saule Bliuvaite
Locarno77 affirmed "the centrality of women's voices in contemporary cinema," awarded a special jury prize to Kurdwin Ayub's 'Moon' and the director honor to Lithuania's Laurynas Bareiša.
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Paz Vega on Directorial Debut ‘Rita’ as a “Love Letter to My Childhood” With Its Young Stars as Its “Soul”
The star discusses her memories of 1980s Spain, toxic masculinity, the joy and difficulty of writing, her directing experience, the next movie she is writing, and why she will direct but not star in it.
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Jane Campion on ‘Barbie’ Impact: “Women Will Be Trusted With Money, Finally”
The Kiwi filmmaker also spoke to the press about her "troubled" relationship with her own films at the Locarno Film Festival where she is being honored.
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Lebanon Civil War Doc ‘Green Line’ Uses Figurines to Confront a Woman’s Violent Childhood Trauma
Writer-director Sylvie Ballyot told a Locarno Film Festival event that her protagonist "had a relationship with the language and grammar of war and violence."
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‘Toxic’ Director Explores the Human Body and Mysterious Model Agencies in Her Feature Debut
Lithuanian writer and director Saulė Bliuvaitė shares how her film, which had its world premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, was shaped by her own life experiences and cinematic influences.
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‘New Dawn Fades’ Explores Insanity as “a Social Construct,” With Istanbul as a Main Character
Writer and director Gürcan Keltek discussed religion, sound and music, and his next projects before his first fiction feature had its world premiere in the Locarno Film Festival's competition lineup.
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