Dir: Dave Robinson. UK, 1981. 87 mins. There is an appealing contradiction at the heart of Take It or Leave It: a film about the spectacular rise of the English band...

Dir: Alexis Alexiou | Drama 2026 Alexis Alexiou’s Sea of Glass arrives in Edinburgh with a noir-ready premise: a woman escapes a suffocating marriage, retreats to a deserted Greek seaside resort,...

Dir: Dragana Jurišić | Doc 2026 The Balkan Cowboy is an evocative and deeply personal debut documentary from visual artist Dragana Jurišić that uses the iconography of the American Western to...

Dir: Denis Côté | Canada, Drama 2026 Denis Côté’s Nobody’s Violence approaches death not as spectacle or endpoint, but as a quiet administrative reality that sits uncomfortably close to everyday life....

Dir: Kamila Serwicka. Poland. 2026. 77’. Kamila Serwicka’s Blossoming is an intimate documentary about the damage that can settle into a family and the difficult work of breaking its patterns. The...

Dir: Matt Johnson | US Comedy drama 2026 Matt Johnson’s Tony approaches Anthony Bourdain from the least obvious direction: not as the future television icon, literary celebrity or global culinary adventurer,...

Dir: Sergio Castro-San Martin | Thriller 2026 The political thriller has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years, but Il Chileno distinguishes itself by refusing to trade in easy heroics....

Dir: Louise Donschen | Germany Drama 2026 Before Locarno’s larger, more demonstrative premieres begin clamouring for attention, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago arrives with the confidence to whisper. Set against the...

Dir/Wri: Natalka Vorozhbyt | Fantasy horror 2026 Natalka Vorozhbyt‘s latest film is one of the most unsettling entries in this year’s Locarno line-up. Scratches at the edges of horror this fantasy drama...