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Locarno Film Festival Top Award Goes to ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ by Sho Miyake

White Snail' by Elsa Kramer and Levin Peter won a special jury prize, Abbas Fahdel the director honor for 'Tales of the ...

Locarno Takeaways, From Emma Thompson's Savoir Faire to Why More Companies Are Using the Swiss Festival for Premieres to a Raved-About Retrospective

Unspooling in sweltering humidity, Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival, Europe's biggest mid-Summer movie event, sometimes ...

Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival

After three years of post-production, the film envisions an apocalyptic world that hosts the Omegas, a mutated group of ...

LISTEN: ‘Weapons,’ ‘Freakier Friday’ Impress as Superhero Alternatives; Why Locarno Film Festival Punches Above its Weight

Brent Lang explains on 'Daily Variety' podcast why the success of 'Weapons' and 'Freakier Friday' marked a big milestone for ...

Locarno: ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ & ‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ Take Top Prizes

Tabi to Hibi, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake, has won the Pardo d’Oro, the Locarno Film Festival’s ...
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Locarno Film Festival 2025: “Tabi to Hibi,” “Hair, Paper, Water…,” “Yakushima’s Illusion”

Based on Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga Mr. Ben and his Igloo, A View of the Seaside, “Tabi to Hibi” also sees Miyake pulling off ...

Argentine Korean director Cecilia Kang wins best emerging director award at Locarno

Cecilia Kang won best emerging director at the Locarno Film Festival on Saturday for "Hijo Mayor" ("Elder Son"), her first ...

Romanian Producer Ada Solomon Has 3 Films in Locarno’s Competition and Likes Cinema to Cause Debate: “We Need Dialogue More Than Ever”

"For me, it's very important for cinema to have something to say," the woman behind 'Dracula' and much more tells THR. "The ...
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Locarno Film Festival 2025: Blue Heron, Dracula, Legend Of The Happy Worker

The Locarno Film Festival never ceases to surprise me. The eclectic programming makes it so that you’re never seeing two ...

Jackie Chan Charms Locarno as He Receives Career Award: “I Am 71. I Still Can Fight”

The Hong Kong and global film icon received an enthusiastic welcome as he was honored with a Career Leopard at the Swiss ...

Locarno Open Doors: Nigerian, Zimbabwean & Ivorian Projects Among Winners

The main award of the Open Doors initiative at this year’s Locarno Film Festival was shared by three projects: Black Snake, ...

Locarno Open Doors: ‘Kachifo,’ ‘Black Snake,’ ‘Diary of a Goat Woman’ Win Big at Africa-Focused Forum

Naishe Nyamubaya’s “Black Snake” and Azata Soro’s “Diary of a Goat Woman” won big at a vibrant Open Doors forum at this ...