Locarno International Film Festival

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Open Doors participants and winners 2024

Locarno unveils producers and projects for Africa-focused Open Doors programme

Festival’s co-production platform and talent development programme is focused on the African continent this year.

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson to receive Locarno’s Leopard Club Award

Star will be at festival for the premiere of thriller The Dead of Winter

Youth (Hard Times)

‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review

The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road

Toxic

‘Toxic’: Locarno Review

Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town

A Sister's Tale

‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review

Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran

Mexico 86

‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review

Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son

The Sparrow In The Chimney

‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review

A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy