All Locarno articles
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Features20 films to watch from the 2025 summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Transilvania, Munich and Fantasia.
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Reviews‘God Will Not Help’ review: Croatian filmmaker Hana Jusic’s intense second feature revels in its mysteries
This slow-burn drama stars Manuela Martelli as an enigmatic stranger
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FeaturesJulie Pacino on confronting childhood trauma through her feature debut ‘I Live Here Now’
‘I Live Here Now’ is playing at Edinburgh, following its a festival run including Fantasia and Locarno.
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Reviews’Yakushima’s Illusion’ review: Vicky Krieps stars in Naomi Kawase’s humanistic Japanese hospital drama
Writer/director Kawase presents a delicately-handled study of the country’s challenging organ donation landscape
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Reviews‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is poetic drama from Japan’s Sho Miyake
A Korean writer searches for creative and romantic fulfilment in Japan
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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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Features“Investors want to feel connected to a film”: Abbout Productions on raising financing from the Lebanese diaspora
Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine have steered a slew of films to A-list festivals despite the meltdown of Lebanon’s economy.
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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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Reviews‘The Dead Of Winter’ review: Emma Thompson saves the day in this formulaic thriller
Locarno premiere finds the beloved star playing a grieving widow who must rescue a kidnapped young woman
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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.
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Reviews‘The Legend Of The Happy Worker’ review: Thomas Haden Church and Josh Whitehouse star in uneven Lynchian fable
Adaptation of S.E. Feinberg’s play is directed by Duwayne Dunham, longtime David Lynch editor
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Reviews‘Dracula’ review: Romania’s Radu Jude presents a typically inventive study of the vampire myth
The director follows up Berlin Silver Bear-winning Kontinental ’25 with this provocative portmanteau
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NewsJackie Chan and ‘Sentimental Value’ draw huge crowds at Locarno Film Festival
Locarno’s Piazza Grande screenings have been packed out, while the festival has seen a busy industry focus and widespread condemnation of suffering in Gaza.
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News‘The Birthday Party’ starring Willem Dafoe unveils slew of international sales after Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Miguel Angel Jimenez-directed 1970s-set tale of secrets, ambition and familial tension world premiered in Locarno’s Piazza Grande
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FeaturesPalestine’s Kamal Aljafari talks Locarno competitor ‘With Hasan In Gaza’
The Palestinian filmmaker pieced together the documentary from footage shot in 2001.
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NewsStreamers “significantly underpaying” for pay 1 and pay 2 licence fees, Locarno think tank hears
Stuart Ford, Tricia Tuttle and Ed Guiney were talking at Locarno’s StepIn think tank.