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The Locarno Film Festival’s upcoming edition will feature an extensive retro focused on the infamous Hollywood Blacklist, one of the U.S.…
Three years ago, Japanese director Shô Miyake enjoyed an arthouse breakthrough with his gorgeous, unconventionally delicate boxing movie…
Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and…
In Alexandre Koberidze‘s 2021 breakout “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?” the audience is politely requested to momentarily close…
Fresh off its world premiere in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, Romania-based Serbian director Ivana Mladenović’s riotous fourth…
Organ donation may be a miracle of modern medicine, though in Japan, it remains a divisive practice, in conflict with certain cultural and…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — AGC International is closing a slew of major distribution deals in key markets worldwide on ‘Kiss of the Spider…
Lucy Liu received Locarno Film Festival‘s career achievement award Thursday, and presented her new film “Rosemead,” which had its…
Bones; earth; worker; murderer. These are not words that any language course would suggest as the basic building blocks for communication…
“Lóngquán: The Dragon’s Spring,” a hybrid doc-fiction feature marking the feature debut of Catalan Adrià Guxens, walked off with the…
A man dissolves into a shimmering silhouette before passing through a wall into the afterlife in Dane Komljen’s ghostly “Desire Lines,”…
Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival after being held six years in post-production limbo, Abdellatif Kechiche‘s “Mektoub, My Love:…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Visit Films, the prestigious New York-based sales agent, has come on board of “Keep Quiet,”directed by Vincent…
Dika Ofama’s “Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes),” Naishe Nyamubaya’s “Black Snake” and Azata Soro’s “Diary of a Goat Woman” won big at a…
From posthumous footage of a cloaked Bela Lugosi stumbling through graveyards in “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to David Niven appearing in…
Emma Thompson might have been making headlines this week due to her surprise revelation about Donald Trump “stalking” her and trying to…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Anna Alarcón, co-star of Liliana Torres’ South by Southwest winner “Mamífera” is attached to take the lead in…
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has boarded Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ “Nina Roza”. The film has been selected for Locarno’s First…
Jackie Chan reenacted his role in Bruce Lee’s “Enter the Dragon” at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. Chan played a small part in the…
Abdellatif Kechiche hasn’t made it to Locarno despite the premiere of “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due,” the third installment of his…
International film sales agency MoreThan Films has picked up sales rights to Ion de Sosa’s “Balearic” ahead of its world premiere as part…
Donald Trump asked Emma Thompson on a date. “A phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke. I said: ‘How…
On Aug. 9, Locarno Film Festival’s red carpet will be rolled out for the second time in a row to the acclaimed U.K. experimental filmmaker…
Emma Thompson called her character in Brian Kirk’s film “Dead of Winter” a “real life heroine” during a conversation at Locarno Film…
