The exploration of South Asia continues with a new raft of producers and projects that will be showcased for European and international partners at the Locarno Festival during the 15th edition of Open Doors, to be held from 2 to 8 August 2017.
The approach of in-depth research pursued by Open Doors is built around three distinct initiatives, Open Doors Lab, Open Doors Hub and Open Doors Screenings, all developed over a three-year period (20...
Edoardo Albinati
Italian author and screenwriter Edoardo Albinati is to be the pivotal guest for the Locarno Festival’s 5th springtime event L’immagine e la parola, scheduled for 10 to 12 March 2017. Albinati’s writing is an insightful commentary on contemporary Italy, but has also been responsive to the iconography of film, and so the Festival approached him to draw up a program of talks and screenings...
Tomorrow, Saturday 21th January, at the 52nd Solothurn Film Festival, Festival President Marco Solari and his team will be holding the first of many special events planned for #Locarno70. An important step along the way to this year’s event, which will be held under the new brand: Locarno Festival.
Looking forward to the future and celebrating its first seven decades not so much as an achievement in itself but as a starting point, the Festival will be emerging from a pr...
© Collection Cinémathèque suisse. Tous droits réservés - A scene of the film I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The 70th Locarno Festival Retrospective will be dedicated to French filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (1904 – 1977). Returning to that dialogue on the part of the Festival with great American cinema, the 2017 Retrospective is turning its glance towards a director who is still not enjoying recogn...
A new three-year formula was introduced in 2016 for Open Doors, the Festival del film di Locarno sidebar in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The sidebar’s brief is to foster independent cinema and offer visibility to directors and filmmakers from countries in the South and East of the world, and in 2017 it is set to build on the success of the new formula by continuing its three-year research pathway on eight Southern Asian nations...
Details have been announced about the commemorative special stamp to celebrate the Festival del film di Locarno's 70th anniversary, which the Post Office will present as a preview on March 31, 2017.
At the traditional Extraordinary Assembly, held at the end of the Festival, an official minute was made, giving details about the announcement made during the closing ceremony on August 13. The commemorative special stamp, which celebrates the Festival del film di Locarno's 70th an...
Donald Cried by Kris Avedisian
DONALD CRIED by Kris Avedisian wins the Cinelab Award at the Festival del film Locarno on Festival Scope. The award, offered by Cinelab Romania, has been given by the audience of the first Festival del film Locarno online event in partnership with Festival Scope.
The initiative between Festival del film Locarno and Festival Scope has presented a selection of 9 films from the Con...
Ralitza Petrova © Festival del film Locarno
The 2016 edition, the fourth under Carlo Chatrian's Artistic Direction, came to a successful end, crowned with the Pardo d’oro to Godless, directed by Bulgarian filmmaker Ralitza Petrova.
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
GODLESS by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/France
Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize)
INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hear...
Tonight on the Red Carpet
The Delegation of VINCENT
Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami
Pardo d'onore Swisscom Alejandro Jodorowski
The Delegation of POESÍA SIN FIN
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Additional Screenings, 13 August
MISTER UNIVERSO by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel: Rialto 1 at 09.45
VERSUS: THE LIVE AND FILM OF KEN LOACH by Louise Osmond: Palavideo ...
Foto di Alessio Pizzicannella
Ken Loach, welcome back to Locarno. What is your fondest memory of Piazza Grande, where you were awarded with the Pardo d'onore in 2003?
My overriding memory is the enormity of the screen and the audience, the warmth of its response. I can't think a more impressive size to show a film. It's a spectacul...
Foto di Alessio Pizzicannella
Poesía sin fin is by far your most personal movie in many ways, it deals with your own story. How much is fictional and what has been taken from real life?
I wrote a book, La danza de la realidad (The Dance of Reality), which goes from my childhood until today. Now I’m trying to do the movie...
Open Doors Winners 2016
The winners of the co-production platform Open Doors Hub have been announced today
The 2016 edition has seen the launch of a three-year cycle that Open Doors will devote to eight countries in southern Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The international co-production platform Open Doors Hub (4 – 9 August) is part of the new format of Open Doors, which ...
Ptaki Śpiewają W Kigali (Birds are Singing in Kigali)
The sixth edition of First Look – the Festival del film Locarno initiative aiming to showcase films in post-production – has presented six polish films. Each one was introduced by its producer to various world sales agents and festival programmers attending the Industry Days.
The jury for First Look 2016, comprising Kerem Ayan (Istanbul In...
© Thessaloniki International Film Festival photo archive
The first edition of the Industry Academy in the South Eastern Europe & Mediterranean will take place in Thessaloniki from 7 – 11 November, 2016.
The Festival del film Locarno and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival announced today the launch of a new joint initiative in the South Eastern European Countries. After completing successful editions in Mexico, Brazil a...
Peter Rommel, Elsa Pharaon, Antoinette Boulat, Clotilde Courau
The jury of the first European Casting Director Award, in partnership with the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN), decided to give the Award to Antoinette Boulat & Elsa Pharaon (France) for STANDING TALL (LA TÊTE HAUTE) by Emmanuelle Bercot.
The members of the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN) have nominated 21 international casting directors with their respective films. Among t...
Tonight on the Red Carpet
The Delegation of JEUNESSE
The Delegation of O CINEMA, MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA E EU
The Delegation of GODLESS
The Delegation of COMBOIO DE SAL E ACUCAR
Tribute to Roger Corman
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Additional Screenings, 11 August
L’AMATORE, by Maria Mauti: Kursaal at 09.00
ZAVTRA MORE, by Katerina Suvorova: Rialto 2 at 09.00
THE CHAL...
Tonight on the Red Carpet
Presentation Open Doors
The winners of Open Doors Hub:
THE RED PHALLUS
DAY AFTER TOMORROW
The Delegazione of HEMA HEMA: SING ME A SONG WHILE I WAIT
The Delegazione of VOR DER MORGENRÖTE
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Additional Screenings, 10 August
LA PRUNELLE DE MES YEUX, by Axelle Ropert: Rialto 1 at 11.0...
Tonight on the Red Carpet
The Delegation of INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hearts)
The Delegation of AL MA’ WAL KHODRA WAL WAJH EL HASSAN (Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces)
The Delegation of FESTA
The Delegation of WHERE IS ROCKY II
The Delegation of LE CIEL ATTENDRA
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PROGRAM CHANGEMENT, 9 August
VOR DER MORGENRÖ...
Piazza Grande Events, 8 August
LE CIEL ATTENDRA by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Special Events/Conversations with guest
8 August, 10.30, Spazio Cinema (FORUM)
Conversation with Mario Adorf (Pardo alla carriera)
Hosted by Roberto Turigliatto and Giona Nazzaro
8 August, 17.30, Sport Café
First Look Award Ceremony
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
8 August, 09.00, Concorso internazionale
MARIJA by Michael Koch
8 August...
Piazza Grande Events, 7 August
PAULA by Christian Schwochow
AM TAG, ALS DER REGEN KAM by Gerd Oswald
Presentation Retrospettiva and Pardo alla carriera to Mario Adorf
Special Events/Conversations with guest
7 August, 11.30, Spazio Cinema (Forum)
Conversation with Harvey Keitel
Hosted by Dennis Lim
7 August, 17.30, Spazio RSI (La Magnolia)
European Casting Director Awards Ceremony, with the presence of Clotilde Courau
Hosted by Fionnual...
Piazza Grande Events, 6 August
CESSEZ-LE-FEU by Emmanuel Courcol
DANS LA FORÊT by Gilles Marchand
Special Events/Conversations with guests
6 August, 11.00, Spazio Cinema (FORUM)
Conversation with Stefania Sandrelli
Hosted by Steve Della Casa
6 August, 13.00, Spazio Cinema (FORUM)
Red Bull Music Academy presents
A Conversation with Gaspar Noé
Hosted by Torsten Schmidt
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
6 August, 09....
Highlight
The conversation with Jane Birkin tomorrow at 10.30 (Spazio Cinema Forum) has been canceled. The conversation will take place at 16.15 at Palavideo and it will be followed by the screening of LA FILLE PRODIGUE by Jacques Doillon
Piazza Grande Events, 5 August
JASON BOURNE by Paul Greengrass
INTERCHANGE by Dain Iskandar Said
Leopard Club Award to Stefania Sandrelli
Special Events/Conversations with guests
5 August, 11.00,...
Piazza Grande Events, 4 August
MOKA by Frédéric Mermoud
Premio Raimondo Rezzonico to David Linde
Special Events/Conversations with guests
4 August, 12.00, Spazio RSI (La Magnolia)
Conversation with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian
Hosted by Marco Zucchi and Daniele Rauseo
4 August, 13.30, Spazio Cinema (FORUM)
Conversation with Bill Pullman (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon)
Hosted by Eric Kohn
Press Screening...
Piazza Grande Events, 3 August
The opening ceremony will take place Wednesday 3 August on the Piazza Grande at 21.30.
Presentation of the official juries of the three competitions
Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Bill Pullman
Screening of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by Colm McCarthy
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
3, August, 12.00 Cinema Ex*Rex, Fuori Concorso
UN JUIF POUR L’EXEMPLE by Jacob Berger
3 August, 13.30,...
Locarno69 celebrates and pays tribute to the multi-faceted talents of a major actor: Harvey Keitel. In addition to the awards ceremony on the Piazza Grande on August 6, the tribute will also include a screening of Smoke by Wayne Wang, winner of the Prix du Public UBS at Locarno in 1995.
He is the face of Sport, The Wolf, Hal, Charlie, Auggie, Rocco or simply the “lieutenant”. Locarno is awarding one of the greatest of H...
