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Three years ago, Japanese director Shô Miyake enjoyed an arthouse breakthrough with his gorgeous, unconventionally delicate boxing movie “Small, Slow But Steady”; two features later, that…
Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership:…
In Alexandre Koberidze‘s 2021 breakout “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?” the audience is politely requested to momentarily close their eyes. The Georgian director’s unassumingly…
Fresh off its world premiere in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, Romania-based Serbian director Ivana Mladenović’s riotous fourth feature, “Sorella di Clausura,” arrives at the…
Organ donation may be a miracle of modern medicine, though in Japan, it remains a divisive practice, in conflict with certain cultural and religious views on the limits of mortality and…
Like a child chasing a firefly on impulse, “Hair, Paper, Water” directors Trương Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux follow Cao Thị Hậu’s words and gestures on a journey back to the cave of her…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — AGC International is closing a slew of major distribution deals in key markets worldwide on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and…
Lucy Liu received Locarno Film Festival‘s career achievement award Thursday, and presented her new film “Rosemead,” which had its international premiere at the festival. Liu talked with…
Bones; earth; worker; murderer. These are not words that any language course would suggest as the basic building blocks for communication in a new tongue. But for Spanish-speaking Teresa…
“Lóngquán: The Dragon’s Spring,” a hybrid doc-fiction feature marking the feature debut of Catalan Adrià Guxens, walked off with the work-in-progress award at Locarno Pro’s inaugural…
A man dissolves into a shimmering silhouette before passing through a wall into the afterlife in Dane Komljen’s ghostly “Desire Lines,” which held its world premiere Aug. 11 in Locarno’s…
Spanish actor-director Eduardo Casanova takes on the Black Plague and HIV/AIDS pandemics in explosive miniseries “Silence” – as well as female vampires, suddenly faced with the shortage of…
Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival after being held six years in post-production limbo, Abdellatif Kechiche‘s “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” certainly merits the descriptor…
Expanding on the world built in his 2021 short “Intercom 15,” Andrei Epure’s debut feature “Don’t Let Me Die” is an evocative exercise in “sabotaging realism.” Shot across Bucharest and…
Dika Ofama’s “Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes),” Naishe Nyamubaya’s “Black Snake” and Azata Soro’s “Diary of a Goat Woman” won big at a vibrant Open Doors forum at this week’s Locarno Film…
From posthumous footage of a cloaked Bela Lugosi stumbling through graveyards in “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to David Niven appearing in blackface at the end of “Vampira,” Dracula has…
Locarno Pro, the industry platform of the Locarno Film Festival, has announced this year’s winning projects. In the work-in-progress section First Look, this year focusing on Canadian…
The hum of a refrigerator, the distant drone of a neighbor’s lawnmower, the tinny bleeping of a vintage Gameboy, the rhythmic creak of trampoline springs in action. Secondary noise fills…
Emma Thompson might have been making headlines this week due to her surprise revelation about Donald Trump “stalking” her and trying to ask her out on a date when she was making “Primary…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Anna Alarcón, co-star of Liliana Torres’ South by Southwest winner “Mamífera” is attached to take the lead in Torres’ follow-up “Climacteric,” which is being brought…
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has boarded Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ “Nina Roza”. The film has been selected for Locarno’s First Look. In the film, a viral video of an eight-year-old…
Jackie Chan reenacted his role in Bruce Lee’s “Enter the Dragon” at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. Chan played a small part in the iconic film. In the past, he admitted Lee…
Abdellatif Kechiche hasn’t made it to Locarno despite the premiere of “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due,” the third installment of his controversial trilogy, reportedly due to health reasons…
International film sales agency MoreThan Films has picked up sales rights to Ion de Sosa’s “Balearic” ahead of its world premiere as part of the Filmmakers of the Present section at the…
