While Final Fantasy - The Spirit Within and Moulin Rouge will open and close the Piazza Grande programme respectively, this year's official competition of 19 films from 13 different countries includes ten first features and 15 world premieres.
Debut projects include Meng Ong's Miss Wonton (US), Riccardo Signorell's Sheherazade (Switzerland) and Amalia Escriva's Avec Tout Mon Amour (France). The 54th edition of the festival also boasts a strong representation from women directors with seven films in the competition line-up.
The world premiere of US director Peter Bogdanovich's latest feature The Cat's Meow has been selected by the Locarno International Film Festival (August 2-12) as one of the Piazza Grande open-air screenings which new festival director Irene Bignardi has now reserved for non-competition films.
Complete competition line-up
L'AFRANCE
by Alain Gomis - Senegal/France - 90 minutes
ALLA RIVOLUZIONE SULLA DUE CAVALLI
by Maurizio Sciarra - Italy - 98 minutes
AVEC TOUT MON AMOUR
by Amalia Escrivá - France - 80 minutes
BABY BOY
by John Singleton - USA -130 minutes
BICHO DE SETE CABEÇAS
by Lais Bodanzky - Brazil
COMMENT J'AI TUE MON PERE
by Anne Fontaine - France - 95 minutes
DELBARAN
by Abolfazl Jalili - Iran - 96 minutes
DERVIS
by Alberto Rondalli - Italy -115 minutes
DONG CI BIAN WEI (CONJUGAISON)
by TANG Xiaobai - Hong Kong - 97 minutes
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
by Thomas Imbach - Switzerland - 95 minutes
ICH WERDE DICH AUF HÄNDEN TRAGEN
by Iain Dilthey - Germany - 62 minutes
LE LAIT DE LA TENDRESSE HUMAINE
by Dominique Cabrera - France - 93 minutes
THE LAWLESS HEART
by Neil Hunter e Tom Hunsinger - Great Britain - 99 minutes
LOVE THE HARD WAY
by Peter Sehr - Germany - 104 minutes
MANKOLANGAL (GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH)
by Subrahmanian Santakumar - India - 117 minutes
MISS WONTON
by Meng Ong - USA - 88 minutes
NABI (THE BUTTERFLY)
by Moon Seong-Wook - Corea- 106 minutes
NON È GIUSTO
by Antonietta de Lillo - Italy - 100 minutes
SHEHERAZADE
by Riccardo Signorell - Switzerland - 84 minutes
Piazza Grande line-up
OPENING FILM
FINAL FANTASY- THE SPIRITS WITHIN
by Hironobu Sakaguchi - USA -106 minutes
MOSTLY MARTHA / 3 STERNE
by Sandra Nettelbeck - Germany-107 minutes
BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
by Sharon Maguire - Great Britain / USA - 97 minutes
THE CAT'S MEOW
by Peter Bogdanovich - Canada / Germany - 110 minutes
THE DEEP END
by Scott McGehee e David Siegel - USA -99 minutes
EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO
by Guillermo del Toro - Spain -106 minutes
UN JEU D'ENFANTS
by Laurent Tuel - France -85 minutes
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
by Wayne Wang - USA - 139 minutes
LAGAAN
by Ashutosh Gowariker - India - 224 minutes
MILLER'S CROSSING
by Joel and Ethan Coen - USA- 115 minutes
BIAN ZOU BIAN CHANG (LIFE ON A STRING)
by Chen Kaige - Cina - 108 minutes
MY NAPOLEON
by Alan Taylor - Great Britain -105 minutes
PLANET OF THE APES
by Tim Burton - USA
DIE REISE NACH KAFIRISTAN
by Fosco and Donatello Dubini - Germany / Switzerland - 90 minutes
SILENCIO ROTO
by Montxo Armendariz - Spain -115 minutes
CLOSING FILM
MOULIN ROUGE
by Baz Luhzmann - Australia - 128 minutes
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