Locarno Film Festival’s 2025 Retrospective Highlights Post-War Britain in a Showcase ‘About the British Character,’ Says Programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht

Locarno: David Lean, Carol Reed & Powell And Pressburger Titles Set For PostWar British Cinema Retrospective

British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the retrospective programme at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.  Locarno has teamed with the BFI National Archive, Cinémathèque suisse, and Studiocanal on the retrospective, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.  The program will span the work of well-known British filmmakers like David Lean, Carol Reed, and Powell and Pressburger to lesser-known directors like Seth Holt and Lance Comfort. Women fil…

Locarno Film Festival’s 2025 Retrospective Highlights Post-War Britain in a Showcase ‘About the British Character,’ Says Programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht

August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960.  The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s programming and for many festival goers is a standout and popular attraction. Boasting fresh restorations and rare screenings of difficult to get prints, past seasons have been devoted […]