Another new film in our SHORTS calendar just dropped: Canard (2023) by Elie Chapuis is now streaming for free on our website until July 11.
Our honorary leopard – the Pardo d’Onore, presented by Manor – will be given to the internationally recognized and celebrated American filmmaker Alexander Payne during Locarno78, on August 15, 2025.
We’re excited to announce that Lucy Liu will be honored with the Career Achievement Award at Locarno78, on August 14, 2025. With a career spanning over three decades – from her iconic roles in Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels, Chicago, Set It Up, and Presence – Liu continues to redefine what it means to be a leading woman in Hollywood.
We're thrilled to announce that the Locarno Film Festival and Cinegrell have just restored Roberto Rossellini's Anno uno!
We’re excited to announce that Emma Thompson will receive Locarno78’s Leopard Club Award on the night of August 8, on the occasion of the premiere of the much anticipated thriller The Dead of Winter by Brian Kirk.
Starting today – with our new project SHORTS – we’ll spotlight a short film every two weeks; and our first pick is iNTELLIGENCE, by Jeanne Frenkel and Cosme Castro – now available to stream for free on our website (until June 28)!
Shorts can be the spark that lights a filmmaker’s career ablaze. But many filmmakers find their shorts slipping from view even after high-profile festival runs. We’re taking small steps to change that, launching a digital showcase on our website called SHORTS.
Guess what? BaseCamp is back during Locarno78 (August 6 – 16, 2025)! For 11 days, each August BaseCamp brings together 200 emerging talents – filmmakers, designers, musicians, writers, performers, and thinkers – to live, create, and exchange ideas under one roof in Locarno.
Storytelling Through the Lens: apply by June 5, 2025 to our photography workshop led by renowned photographer Sven Creutzmann, and produced in collaboration with Manawa Foundation.
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Being invited to participate in the Critics Academy was my first trip to Switzerland. It is a country I had romanticised for its vast scale: the land of CERN and particle collisions, hydroelectric dams and vast lakes. It is where Albert Einstein came up with his theory of relativity and Tim Burners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. It is where in 1916, following the eruption of Mt Tambora, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft and Lord Byron spent ‘the year without a…
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In continuation to the idea of the body as a canvas for the medium, Somniloquies portrays sleeping nudes against the background of the audio archive of Mike Barr who recorded his roommate’s Dion McGregor’s sleep talking for several years. Vulnerable bodies are exposed as the camera lingers over their most intimate parts. Every now and then limbs emerge from the black, backs curl in a foetal position. No bed can be identified, people seem suspended, as if they are…
La Libertad by Lisandro Alonso is a simple, unembellished movie about a lumberjack, played by professional lumberjack Misael Saavdera, though he is never named. For ninety minutes we follow a day in his life. He wakes up, eats, defecates, goes to chop wood, has his lunch, listens to the radio, returns to work, sells wood, cooks dinner. Routine is the plot, and isolation the drama. The only people he interacts with are a guy at the gas station, and a…
An editor-in-chief for the mythical La lettre du cinéma — a journal that championed such forgotten French auteurs as Jean-Claude Guiguet and Danièle Dubroux and which also spent many of its pages attempting to unravel the increasingly complex continuities of the nouvelle vague (a subject put aside by the Cahiers of that time) through analysis of the late films of Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette — Axelle Ropert has only released four films since 2004. She is normally associated with…
Lav Diaz’ The Long Goodbye
FESTIVAL DE LOCARNO
PRESENTACIÓN
El director filipino de películas como Melancholia, Norte, el fin de la historia y La mujer que se fue regresó a la sección principal del Festival de Locarno, donde en 2014 ganó el Leopardo de Oro por Desde lo que está antes, con un ambicioso film que puede verse como una suerte de continuación de la reciente When the Waves Are Gone (2022).
CRÍTICA
Con más de 30 largometrajes en sus 64 años de vida, el…
