AFTERLOV, the debut feature from Greek director Stergios Paschos, will receive its world premiere in the Locarno International Film Festival’s "Concorso Cineasti del Presente" on 8 August, 2016. Greek sales company Heretic Outreach have come on board to handle worldwide sales, with all territories available.
It’s summertime - a time when Athens feels hotter than the desert. Nikos, a broke 30-year-old musician, is chilling poolside and drinking cocktails...
To mark the second year of the collaboration with Red Bull Music Academy, the Festival del film Locarno is pleased to announce a public lecture with Argentinian auteur Gaspar Noé, taking place on Saturday, August 6.
Gaspar Noé is one of the m...
Roger Corman will be paid tribute during the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno via screenings of two of his films. Guest of honor at the Filmmakers Academy, the training project for young directors, Corman has long been considered a cult filmmaker who helped change the way films are conceived, produced and directed.
As director and screenwriter he made a long series of films whose low-budget model combined principles of quality and popular appeal in unprec...
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Filmmaker, writer, poet and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky will be awarded with a Pardo d’onore Swisscom at the 69th Festival del film Locarno. In addition to a selection of his films and the award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, Jodorowsky will also participate in a conversation open to all festival-goers.
As son of Russian immigrants exiled in Chile, Alejandro Jodorowsky began his artistic career as a puppeteer, poet and thea...
The Concorso Cineasti del presente will open with a film that is unique in its protagonists and for the concept that is the basis for the project. I Had Nowhere To Go by the filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon is based on Jonas Mekas's diary.
“I Had Nowhere To Go is his story of exile; brought on by the horrors of the twentieth century, propelled by the need to create rather than destroy, to move on, to make sense... or not, where bewilderment is more h...
The Festival del film Locarno launches the first European Casting Director Award, in partnership with the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN).
The ICDN, founded in 2005 in the context of the European Shooting Stars (EFP) at the Berlinale, is the first association to focus on casting directors on a worldwide scale. The ICDN seeks to improve the standards of the profession, to help shape film policy and processes, to pro...
6 Polish films in post-production in Locarno
OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński
For its sixth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema. Thanks to a partnership with the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, this year's First Look will present 6 films in post-production chosen by the Festiv...
One region, four countries, twenty-one films, and a world premiere. This is the Open Doors Screenings 2016, a platform for talent of contemporary cinema in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal.
For Open Doors to extend its purview to exciting developments in young national cinemas, such as those of southern Asia, is nothing new. But a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings certainly is.
This is the case with Hema Hema: Sing ...
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The 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the dearly beloved Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli who this year celebrates her 55 years' career and her “70th springtime”. She will receive the Leopard Club Award 2016 on the Piazza Grande, on Friday, August 5.
A key player in the great era of Italian cinema, an...
The British actress and singer will be paid tribute at the 69th Festival del film Locarno.
A transgressive voice, persona and epitome of panache in the 1960s, Jane Birkin will be under the spotlight at the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno on the Piazza where, nine years ago, (2007) another tribute was paid to Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the masters with whom she worked.
Jane Birkin initially appeared on stage in musicals, prefiguring her dual career as both actre...
Wednesday July 13, the official program for the 69° Festival del film Locarno was announced.
Download the full press kit.
The award to Bill Pullman (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon) was also announced today.
Those attending Locarno will include: Mario Adorf, Stefan Arndt, Dario Argento, Yuri Ancarani, Gemma Arterton, Lionel Baier, Nathalie Baye, Joel Basman, Jacob Berger, Paulo Branco, Mélanie Bernier, Júlio Bressane, João Botelho, Bastien Bouillon, Jean-S...
Locarno’s works in progress sidebar (6 – 8 August 2016), designed as a springboard for the films of the future, will be focusing this year on Polish Cinema, one of Eastern Europe’s most thriving film industries.
Thanks to support from the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, between five and seven films in post-production will be selected at Locarno. The producers of the selected projects will attend the Festival and present t...
Eight projects and eight producers from South Asia have been selected and will be presented to potential European and international partners during Open Doors.
Carlo Chatrian, the Festival's Artistic Director, comments: "This initial selection of projects from South Asia shows the productivity and energy of a region with major potential. This is the first stage in a work of exploration and support that will continue over three years."
Over three years...
The 69th Festival del film Locarno will pay homage to German actor Mario Adorf, honoring him with this year’s Pardo alla carriera. The award ties in with the 2016 Retrospective on film in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II (1949 – 1963), but is also a tribute to his extraordinary range of performances across a career stretching over more than sixty years.
Born in 1930, Mario Adorf is one of the best known German screen...
American producer and executive David Linde will receive the Premio Raimondo Rezzonico at the upcoming 2016 Festival del film Locarno, an award known as a key industry tribute dedicated to the world’s most significant independent film producers. Previous award recipients include Arnon Milchan, Mike Medavoy, Christine Vachon and Margaret Ménégoz. Linde’s remarkable contributions to the making of dozens of international successes in his capacity as a production, acquisi...
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo, South Korea
Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize)
TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Pardo per la miglior regia (Best direction)
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI for COSMOS, France/Portugal
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best actress)
TANAKA SACHIE, KIKUCHI HAZUKI, MIHARA MAIKO, KAWAMURA RIRA for HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
Pardo...
Locarno has just drawn to a close.
HONG Sangsoo, Pardo d’oro 2015
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Saturday August 15 saw the awards ceremony at the 68th Festival del film Locarno. The 2015 edition, the third under Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, was highly successful and was crowned with the award of the Pardo d’oro to the film RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN by...
Press Conference of the Official Juries
This year the press conference of the official juries awards will take place tomorrow, August 15, at 15.00 at the Press Center, without embargo. The press conference will be live streamed at this addess:
http://pardolive.ch/pardo/pardo-live/today-at-festival/live-article
The press release will follow and will include the independent juries awards.
The award ceremony will take place at 21.00 on the Piazza Grande.
The independe...
Additional screenings
DOM JUAN by Vincent Macaigne: Rialto 1 at 14.00
K2 TOUCHING THE SKY by Eliza Kubarska: Rialto 2 at 17.00
CHANT D'HIVER by Otar Iosseliani: Rialto 1 at 21.00
THE LOST CITY by Andy Garcia: Teatro Kursaal at 21.00
PAT GARRET AND BILLY THE KID by Sam Peckinpah: Ex*Rex at 23.00
Eventi Piazza Grande, 14 agosto
Pardo d’onore Swisscom to Marco Bellocchio
Screening of ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Screening of I P...
New screening
ROUTE 66 / MON PETIT CHOU by Sam Peckinpah: Rialto 3 at 17.30
Additional screening
BELLA E PERDUTA by Pietro Marcello: Rialto 2 at 11.00
TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA by Julio Hernández Cordón: Rialto 1 at 18.30
DER NACHTMAHR by AKIZ: Rialto 1 at 21.00
ALS DIE SONNE VOM HIMMEL FIEL by Aya Domenig: Rialto 3 at 21.30
Piazza Grande Events, 13 August
Vision Award Nescens to Walter Murch
Screening of LA VANITÉ by Lionel Baier ...
Luc Besson and Melanie Griffith on the Red Carpet of the 67° Festival del film Locarno. On August 6, 2015.
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Additional screening
COSMOS by Andrzej Zulawski: Rialto 1 at 09.00
BRACIA (BROTHERS) by Wojciech Staroń: Rialto 2 at 16.45
Piazza Grande Events, 12 August
Premio Cinema Ticino to Teco Celio
Screening of PASTORALE CILENTANA by Mario Martone
Screening of AMNESIA by Barbet Schroeder
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
12 August, 09.00, Concorso internazionale
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS by Ben Rivers
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Additional screening
COSMOS by Andrzej Zulawski: Rialto 1 at 09.00
BRACIA (BROTHERS) by Wojciech Staroń: Rialto 2 at 16.45
Piazza Grande Events, 12 August
Premio Cinema Ticino to Teco Celio
Screening of PASTORALE CILENTANA by Mario Martone
Screening of AMNESIA by Barbet Schroeder
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
12 August, 09.00, Concorso internazionale
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS by Ben Rivers
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Today saw the announcement of the awards for the Open Doors Co-production Lab, organized with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
The 2015 session of Open Doors is devoted to films from the four Maghreb countries Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia. The Co-production Lab (August 8 – 11) aims to bring together the finalist directors and producers with potential ...
The fifth edition of First Look — the Festival del film Locarno initiative aiming to showcase films in post-production — has presented six Israeli 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 2015, comprising Karel Och (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Artistic Director), J...
