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News‘Chechnya’ wins top Locarno co-pro prize
Film-makers from Georgia were the big winners at the Open Doors awards ceremony at the Locarno Film Festival.
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NewsSwiss move into talks for Creative Europe membership
European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou also talks about future funding for Locarno festival.
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NewsLocarno roundup: Wetlands stirs controversy
Social media platforms ban explicit trailer for Wetlands.
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NewsMatch Factory strikes deals for Locarno films
EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has signed a raft of deals for Sam Garbarski’s Vijay And I and David Wnendt’s Wetlands ahead of their world premieres in Locarno.
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NewsDigital edition: Locarno 2013
Browse the digital edition of our Locarno Film Festival supplement here.
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NewsLocarno to honour Victoria Abril
Spanish actress Victoria Abril is to be honoured with the Excellence Award at the 66th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7-17).
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NewsLocarno's Carte Blanche reveals Chilean films
Now in its third year, Locarno’s Carte Blanche will shine the light on Chilean films in post production.
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NewsLocarno unveils ‘diverse’ line-up
A total of 18 world premieres feature in the main Competition line-up of this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
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NewsLocarno to honour Douglas Trumbull
The US special effects maestro behind 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to receive Locarno’s inaugural Vision Award.
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NewsLocarno to open with 2 Guns
Locarno bookended by action-comedy 2 Guns and doc On the Way to School.
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NewsLocarno to honour Sergio Castellitto
Italian actor, director and screenwriter Sergio Castellitto is to be honoured at the 66th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (August 7-17).
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NewsLocarno adds Europa Cinemas award
The award is already handed out at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Karlovy Vary.
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NewsHerzog to be honoured at Locarno
German director to receive Leopard of Honour at the upcoming 66th Locarno Film Festival.
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NewsLocarno co-pro projects unveiled
New projects from Ovashvili, Pirveli and Shek selected for Locarno’s Open Doors.
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NewsLocarno reveals spin-off line-up
Carlo Chatrain will be artistic director of the first L’immagine e la Parola, with Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov the guest of honour.
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NewsLocarno's Open Doors 2013 to focus on South Caucasus
12 co-production projects to be selected from Armenia, Azerbaijan [pictured] and Georgia.
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.
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NewsLocarno's Carte Blanche 2013 to focus on Chile
Five or six films in post production will be presented.
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NewsCarlo Chatrian to succeed Olivier Pere at Locarno
Italian-born writer and festival programmer Carlo Chatrian has been chosen by Locarno Festival’s Board of Governors to succeed Olivier Père as the artistic director and officially take up his post from Nov 1.
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NewsOlivier Père departs Locarno to head up Arte France Cinéma
Locarno Film Festival artistic director Olivier Père will replace Michel Reilhac who is resigning from ARTE to pursue transmedia projects.