Uganda, Somalia and Ghana projects share top prize at Locarno’s Open Doors
Locarno Pro’s co-production and talent development programme is currently focused on 42 countries in Africa.
Locarno Pro unveils First Look, Alliance 4 Development and Heritage Restoration winners
Prizes for Locarno Pro’s flagship works-in-progress, development and restoration winners were handed out on Sunday night.
Locarno film festival protest sees huge shroud unfurled with names of 60,000 killed in Gaza
Peaceful protest took place shortly before a sold-out Piazza Grande screening of Olivia Wilde’s ’The Invite’, which is being attended by over 8,000 people.
Split Screen boards Georgian protest drama ‘Tear Gas’ ahead of Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Fiction film about family drawn into mass protests in Tblisi was shot inside real demonstrations in Georgia.
Locarno Pro talks nepo babies and white male filmmakers: “Privilege is very present in the industry”
Most of this century’s top grossing films were made by ‘nepo baby creatives’ according to research presented at the Locarno Film Festival’s StepIn industry conference.
Locarno launches cash rebate to attract film and TV productions
The fund will operate for an initial three-year period and has launched with an annual budget of $74,000 (CHF60,000).
Locarno pays tribute to Isabella Rossellini as festival kicks off with ‘The Green Eyes’ premiere
Artistic director Giona A Nazzaro led round of applause for two of his Locarno predecessors who died this year, Moritz de Hadeln and Lili Hinstin
Olivia Wilde explains why she fought for cinema release over a streaming deal ‘bribe’ for ‘The Invite’
Speaking at Locarno Film Festival, Wilde said the industry has been mistaken in believing that comedies now only work on the small screen and not in cinemas.
Legendary producer Joni Sighvatsson on working with David Lynch: “He was very single-minded”
Sighvatsson was honoured at the Locarno Film Festival ahead of a Piazza Grande screening of Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or winner ’Wild At Heart’.
“Evil is part of our life”: director Felix Randau on ‘I Is Another’ about Himmler's masseur
Film stars Claes Bang as the former massage therapist to SS leader Heinrich Himmler, who claims to have saved thousands of lives.
