All Locarno articles
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Reviews‘You Don’t Belong Here’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is tense, slow-burn study of Romanian masculinity
Florin Serban’s cool, clinical drama about a strained father-son relationship will next play Sarajevo
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NewsFlorin Serban’s ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2026
Romanian filmmaker takes top prize at festival, with other prizes for South Korean director Hong Sangsoo as well as actor Monica Bellucci.
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Reviews‘Love Lessons’ review: A retired teacher finds he has a lot to learn in Martin Provost’s light, unsurprising French drama
Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet star in the Locarno Piazza Grande premiere
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Reviews‘Nowhere To Lay My Eyes’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s latest proves sparse, minor-key family drama
The prolific South Korean filmmaker debuts his new work in Locarno competition
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Reviews‘The House On The Moon’ review: Singapore’s Nelson Yeo turns Chinese moon goddess myth into ponderous flight of fancy
The filmmaker returns to Locarno competition after 2023 Golden Leopard win for debut ‘Dreaming & Dying’
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Reviews‘Concrete Land’ review: Sensitive observational doc follows an exiled Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin family in Jordan
Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate feature was filmed over eight years and premieres at Locarno
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Reviews‘Down The Arm Of God’ review: Caleb Landry Jones co-writes and stars in well-intentioned US homelessness drama
Luc Besson produces Peter Brunner’s feature, which premieres in Locarno’s Piazza Grande
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NewsHow Zoe Saldana’s husband Marco Perego became a rare angel investor for arthouse filmmakers
“Who is the auteur we can help to produce?” says Perego of his motivation.
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NewsUganda, 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.
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Reviews‘Nobody’s Violence’ review: Denis Côté’s twisting thriller confronts profound questions of mortality
The filmmaker’s regular collaborator Larissa Corriveau stars in the gripping Locarno competition title
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NewsLocarno 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.
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NewsLocarno 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.
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Reviews‘At Night’ review: Experimental, allusive UK debut explores women’s shared experiences
Beatrice Gibson’s Paris-set Locarno premiere features cinematography from filmmaker Ben Rivers
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FeaturesOlivia 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.
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NewsSplit 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.
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FeaturesLegendary 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’.
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Features“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.
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Reviews‘Manhunt’ review: Intense psychological thriller follows two troubled boys across the Canadian wilderness
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Locarno competition title is inspired by real life events
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NewsLocarno 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.
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NewsLocarno 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).