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Golshifteh Farahani To Receive Locarno’s Excellence Award

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Golshifteh Farahani will be feted at Locarno with the Excellence Award Davide Campari. Farahani will be handed the award on August 6. She will also present her latest film, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, at the festival. Born in Tehran in 1983, Farahani’s breakthrough role was in Dariush Mehrjui’s The Pear Tree (1998), which won her the […]See the Story

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Locarno Juries: Director Carlos Reygadas & ‘Nickel Boys’ Producer Joslyn Barnes Join Rithy Panh In Main Competition Jury

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Mexican director and producer Carlos Reygadas, U.S. producer Josyln Barnes and actresses Ursina Lardi and Renée Soutendijk have been announced for the main jury of the 78th Locarno Film Festival in August. They join award-winning documentarian Rithy Panh who was previously announced in May as the jury president. Reygadas, who won best director in Cannes […]See the Story

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Filmfestival Locarno: Stunk Around New Screen

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Stunk reigns in Locarno. The screen gets a new scaffold – and film makers quickly go to the barricades.Read Article

Locarno Think Tank StepIn to Urge the Industry to Embrace Risk, Welcomes Comedian Maysoon Zayid Whom the World Tried – and Failed – to Cancel

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Locarno’s interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14th edition. In her introduction “Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Making Movies that Save Lives,” Zayid will “challenge industry players to use the power of storytelling to save lives,” it was revealed to Variety exclusively. “My entire career has been about taking risks and doing either what others fear, or wha…Locarno · Locarno Read Article

Disability Advocate, AGC Studios Boss, ‘Poor Things’ Producer, Berlinale Boss Set for Locarno Pro

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A disability advocate, AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford, 'Poor Things' producer Ed Guiney, Radu Jude, Berlinale boss Tricia Tuttle are set for Locarno Pro.Locarno · Locarno Read Article

Totem Picks Up Buzzy Sexually Candid Open Relationship Comedy ‘Follies,’ Bound for Locarno

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Paris-based sales-production house Totem – whose sales slate has included “Compartment No. 6,” My Favourite Cake” and “The Hypnosis” – has boarded worldwide sales on “Follies,” a sexually candid open relationship comedy. Set to world-premiere at August’s Locarno Film Festival, the French-language pic marks the buzzy feature debuts a director of Montreal screenwriting powerhouse Éric. […]Locarno · Locarno Read Article

Locarno Director on ‘Dracula,’ Jackie Chan and Hosting a Film Festival with the World “in Flames”

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Giona A. Nazzaro also discusses Willem Dafoe's turn as a tycoon in 'The Birthday Party,' picking the new Kechiche movie for the 78th edition of the Swiss fest, Japan's return, and the role of comedy and stars.Jackie Chan · Locarno See the Story

"Kouté Vwa": Memory Drums

Awarded at the Festival de Locarno, Koutée Vwa by Maxime Jean-Baptiste established himself as a powerful work of memory and reconciliation. Between drum, prayer and transmission, this film invites us to listen to the voices that we often prefer to silence.Guyana · Guyana See the Story

Asmara Abigail Joins the Jury Panel of the 78th Locarno Film Festival

Actress Asmara Abigail joins the jury for the Concorso Cineasti del Presente category at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.Locarno · Locarno Read Article

Mehdi Hmili Signs His Great Return with the Movie Exil at the Locarno Film Festival

Mehdi Hmili returns under the spotlight with a new, powerful and committed feature film titled Exil (Ightirab). After having marked the minds with the film STREAMS, the Tunisian filmmaker presents the film Exil as a world premiere at the prestigious Festival du film de Locarno which takes place in its 78th edition from 6 to 16 August 2025, in Switzerland. The Tunisian feature film will be screened in the context of the non-competitive section Fu…Locarno · Locarno Read Article

Gioia mia to screen in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up

16/07/2025 - Margherita Spampinato makes her feature debut with a story about a tech-savvy and hyper-connected child who enters into his elderly aunt’s world which is dominated by a magical sense of religionLocarno · Locarno Read Article

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Golshifteh Farahani To Receive Locarno’s Excellence Award

Locarno Juries: Director Carlos Reygadas & ‘Nickel Boys’ Producer Joslyn Barnes Join Rithy Panh In Main Competition Jury

Filmfestival Locarno: Stunk Around New Screen

Locarno Think Tank StepIn to Urge the Industry to Embrace Risk, Welcomes Comedian Maysoon Zayid Whom the World Tried – and Failed – to Cancel

Disability Advocate, AGC Studios Boss, ‘Poor Things’ Producer, Berlinale Boss Set for Locarno Pro

Totem Picks Up Buzzy Sexually Candid Open Relationship Comedy ‘Follies,’ Bound for Locarno

Locarno Director on ‘Dracula,’ Jackie Chan and Hosting a Film Festival with the World “in Flames”

"Kouté Vwa": Memory Drums

Asmara Abigail Joins the Jury Panel of the 78th Locarno Film Festival

Mehdi Hmili Signs His Great Return with the Movie Exil at the Locarno Film Festival

Gioia mia to screen in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up

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Locarno Think Tank StepIn to Urge the Industry to Embrace Risk, Welcomes Comedian Maysoon Zayid Whom the World Tried – and Failed – to Cancel

Disability Advocate, AGC Studios Boss, ‘Poor Things’ Producer, Berlinale Boss Set for Locarno Pro

Totem Picks Up Buzzy Sexually Candid Open Relationship Comedy ‘Follies,’ Bound for Locarno

Locarno Director on ‘Dracula,’ Jackie Chan and Hosting a Film Festival with the World “in Flames”

"Kouté Vwa": Memory Drums

Asmara Abigail Joins the Jury Panel of the 78th Locarno Film Festival

Mehdi Hmili Signs His Great Return with the Movie Exil at the Locarno Film Festival

Gioia mia to screen in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up