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: 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...

Dir: Peter Brunner | US Drama 2026 Peter Brunner’s Down the Arm of God arrives in Locarno’s Piazza Grande with the weight of a contemporary American parable, transforming a small Texas...

Dirs: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Drama 2026 Few contemporary filmmakers dismantle the boundaries between fantasy, folklore and cinematic artifice with the audacity of Chilean duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín...

Dir: Sophy Romvari | Drama, Canada 90' In her striking feature debut, Blue Heron, writer-director Sophy Romvari transforms family trauma into a dreamlike meditation on memory, grief, and the stories we...

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL | Retrospective 2026: Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST is the subject of this year's retrospective at Locarno Film Festival. At the...