All Locarno articles – Page 16
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Features11 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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NewsLocarno Film Festival 2019 winners revealed
The Golden Leopard goes to Portugal for Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela.
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NewsLocarno 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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NewsLocarno 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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Reviews‘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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FeaturesSimon 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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Reviews‘7500’: Locarno Review
Flawed but impressive, Patrick Vollrath’s debut is set entirely inside the cockpit of a hijacked plane
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NewsSwiss 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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Reviews‘Maternal’: Locarno Review
A home for unmarried mothers is the setting of documentarist Maura Delpero’s first fiction feature
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NewsStreamers energise the marketplace, say execs in Locarno
Locarno delegates explore how to keep thearical relevant and worthwhile at Locarno’s Stepin event.
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FeaturesHow a European production company married German financing with US talent for cockpit thriller ‘7500’
c wants to make English-language “elevated genre” films wtih global appeal.
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FeaturesLocarno 2019: what to look out for in the industry programme
While her industry programme is packed, Locarno Pro head Nadia Dresti seeks to foster a less-is-more approach.