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NewsVirginie Efira to receive Locarno’s Leopard Club Award
Efira recently won Cannes’ best actress prize for her role in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden.
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NewsBruce LaBruce and Hilal Baydarov projects among 11 selected for Locarno Pro’s Alliance 4 Development
The development programme is aimed at feature-length projects from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
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NewsLocarno unveils partners and participants for first Open Doors Connect programme
Programme sees foundations, film institutions, and organisations sponsor industry professionals from Global South.
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NewsAsia Argento to receive lifetime achievement award at Locarno Film Festival
Actress and filmmaker will receive honour at festival’s 79th edition this summer.
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NewsLocarno’s Open Doors unveils projects, producers and directors for Africa-focused 2026 edition
Open Doors programme is part of the festival’s industry strand Locarno Pro and runs from August 5-10.
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NewsDarren Aronofsky to receive Locarno Film Festival’s Pardo d’Onore award
Aronofsky films ‘The Fountain’ and ‘Mother!’ will play at the festival’s 79th edition.
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NewsLili Hinstin, former artistic director of Locarno, dies aged 48
“She was a passionate cinephile, scholar, and curator,” said the festival.
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NewsLocarno to focus 2026 retrospective programme on infamous Hollywood blacklist
”It is the timeliest one I have worked on in my life,” said curator Ehsan Khoshbakht.
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News17 film festivals receive official ‘A’-list classification as part of major FIAPF revamp
EXCLUSIVE: Annecy, Busan and Clermont-Ferrand are among those now with an ‘A’ classification.
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NewsTop film festival directors rally in defence of Berlinale’s Tricia Tuttle
Letter is signed by leading festival directors including Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux, Locarno’s Giona A. Nazzaro and Sundance’s Eugene Hernandez.
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NewsLocarno Pro’s works-in-progress First Look strand to focus on Uruguay
Six Uruguayan films in post-production will be showcased in partnership with Agencia del Cine y el Audiovisual del Uruguay.
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NewsSophy Romvari’s Locarno, Toronto winner ‘Blue Heron’ acquired for UK-Ireland release
EXCLUSIVE: Film won Locarno’s First Feature award and Toronto’s Canadian Discovery prize.
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NewsPathé launches sales on Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due’
Pathé will launch sales at AFM for the third instalment in Abdellatif Kechiche’s coming-of-age saga after the film world premiered at Locarno.
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NewsSho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2025
Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s ‘White Snail’ was another key winner.
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News‘Fantasy’: first trailer for Kukla’s Locarno, Sarajevo gender exploration title
EXCLUSIVE: Totem Films is handling international sales on the film.
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NewsNaomi Kawase’s ‘Yakushima’s Illusion’ scores key sales ahead of Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: The film stars Vicky Krieps as a French doctor in Japan whose partner goes missing.
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NewsSwitzerland’s ‘Lex Netflix’ investment obligation raises $37m to fund films and TV series
Netflix’s first Swiss TV series Winter Palace and Venice film Alpha were among the first productions to benefit from new investment obligation.
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NewsNigerian director Dika Ofoma’s ‘Till The Morning Comes’ leads winners at Locarno’s Open Doors
Winners also included Zimbabwe’s Naishe Nyamubaya, Burkinabe director Azata Soro and Congolese filmmaker Erickey Bahati.
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NewsSwiss cantons Geneva and Neuchatel to launch rebate schemes for filmmakers
The regional rebate schemes aim to attract national and international productions, and can be combined with national Swiss rebate.
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NewsGeneviève Dulude-De Celles’ ‘Nina Roza’ and Goran Rebić’s ‘In The Hidden’ lead Locarno Pro winners
Industry platform handed out prizes for platforms including First Look, Alliance 4 Development, Antaviana Spanish Previews Award and the Locarno Heritage Restoration Contest.