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Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht explains his selection, the roles of ruins and children in 1945-1960 films, and how "popular cinema ...
This year 222 films will be screened, 100 of them world premieres. There are 18 films competing for the Golden Leopard.
The period between 1945 and 1960 used to be considered the“doldrums” of filmmaking in Britain. The Locarno Film Festival's ...
Queer romance “Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes,” Johannesburg-set funeral farce “Death & Its Friends” and feel-good heist ...
EXCLUSIVE: Legend Of The Happy Worker, one of David Lynch ’s last feature credits, will debut this week at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. The film is directed by Lynch’s long-time ...
The documentary from Jenni Kivistö and Jussi Rastas, world premiering in the Locarno Critics’ Week program, explores identity ...
At Locarno Film Festival on Friday, Emma Thompson will be honored and her latest film, Brian Kirk’s thriller “The Dead of Winter,” will have its world premiere. Variety spoke to the co-chiefs of ...
The artistic director of the Swiss gathering talked to us about this year’s programme and about the importance of building an ...
We can admire those who (brilliantly) craft entire feature films on iPhones, but the choice to shoot a three-hour feature with a Sony Ericcson––a device which ceased manufacturing in 2011––reaches an ...
So far, with the exception of February (-2.8%), the Swiss hotel industry has recorded an increase in overnight stays in every ...
Check out an excerpt from the movie, which stars Levan Gelbakhiani and Maria Pia Pepe and explores "how external conditions could affect and shape our inner worlds." ...
Legato' from Oscar-winning producer of ‘Flow’ Matīss Kaža is among six Baltic projects to be pitched Aug. 20 in Haugesund.