All Locarno articles
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NewsSwiss producer and Locarno stalwart Tiziana Soudani dies
Credits included ‘Happy As Lazarro’ and ‘Bread And Tulips’.
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Locarno to fete Japan’s Kinuyo Tanaka in first retrospective devoted to female filmmaker
Pioneering filmmaker and actress was second woman to direct a feature in history of Japanese cinema.
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Valentina Merli takes over from Nadia Dresti as Locarno Pro chief
Paris-based Merli has worked with Gemini FIlms and Pyramide.
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Locarno premiere ‘Cat In The Wall’ sells to Spain (exclusive)
Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva’s drama also played in Competition at Sarajevo.
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Features
11 breakout films from the summer festivals
Between Cannes and Venice, a handful of smaller features from first and second-time directors are emerging from the summer festivals with strong word-of-mouth.
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Locarno Film Festival 2019 winners revealed
The Golden Leopard goes to Portugal for Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela.
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Locarno Film Festival selection 'Ham On Rye' lands at Factory 25 (exclusive)
Rites-of-passage comedy centres on bizarre ceremony at local delicatessen.
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Reviews
‘O Fim Do Mundo’: Locarno Review
Basil Da Cunha’s impressive second feature is set in the slowly gentrifying Reboleira district of Lisbon
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News
Locarno crowns Open Doors winners from Southeast Asia
This year’s lab began a three-year focus on the region.
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Reviews
‘Days Of The Bagnold Summer’: Locarno Review
Inbetweeners star Simon Bird delivers an unexpectedly gentle portrait of a mother and her son with his directorial debut
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Reviews
‘Technoboss’: Locarno Review
A highly idiosyncratic comedy/musical that might just achieve cult status
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‘A Voluntary Year’: Locarno Review
A German father-daughter comedy/drama which calls to mind ‘Toni Erdmann’
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Reviews
‘Instinct’: Locarno Review
An erotic thriller starring Carice Van Houten from ‘Game Of Thrones’, this ’Instinct’ feels quite basic
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Features
Simon Bird talks directing debut ‘Days Of The Bagnold Summer’: “I want to celebrate the UK suburbs”
Film premieres at Locarno Film Festival on Wednesday (Aug 14).
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Reviews
‘Echo’: Locarno Review
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s doc/fiction hybrid examines life around the Icelandic festival season
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‘7500’: Locarno Review
Flawed but impressive, Patrick Vollrath’s debut is set entirely inside the cockpit of a hijacked plane
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News
Swiss film industry could receive cash boost from streaming platforms
Online services such as Netflix and Amazon will be asked to invest 4% of their annual turnover in local Swiss production.
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