Locarno Film Festival

La Permission (1968) **** Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Dir/Wri: Melvin Van Peebles | Cast: Nicole Berger, Harry Baird | US Drama 67' ,  Melvin Van Peebles made his cheerfully artful French-language debut with a grant. Notable because it was...
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The World Ends | O fim do Mundo (2019) **** Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Dir: Basil da Cunha | Crime drama | Portugal 107' Basil da Cunha is back with a woozily haunting realist revenge drama of Lisbon low-lifes in the badass backwaters of Reboleira....
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Technoboss (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 13, 2019
Dir: Joao Nicolau | Miguel Lobo Antunes | Portugal/France | Drama 112mins Joao Nicolau's musical bittersweet tragedy could be described as the sentimental swan song of a technophobe - quite literally. It...
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Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995) **** Locarno Film Festival | Black Light
Aug 12, 2019
Dir: Isaac Julien | Writers: Isaac Julien, Mark Nash | Doc, UK 70' Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask is one of the most important films about Martinique and racial identity, along...
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7500 (2019) *** Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 11, 2019
Dir: Patrick Vollrath | Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carlo Kitzlinger | Drama 92, Germany/Austria The last time we experienced a cockpit journey of this intensity was when Tom Hardy drove down the...
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Black Orpheus (1959) ***** Locarno Black Lights 2019
Aug 11, 2019
Dir.: Marcel Camus; Cast: Bruno Melo, Marpressa Dawn, Lea Garcia, Lourdes de Oliveira, Ademar Da Silva; Brazil/France/Italy 1959, 100 min. Screening as part of the Black Lights retrospective comes this classic...
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The Apprentice | l’Apprendistato (2019) Locarno Film Festival
Aug 11, 2019
Dir: Davide Maldi | Doc Italy 84’ At dusk, fourteen-year-old Luca carries food into his family’s cowshed for the last time. His life in the mountains is about to come to...
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Echo (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 11, 2019
Dir/Wri: Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama, Iceland, 80' Rúnarsson gained international recognition with his multi-award-winning drama Sparrows  which took the FIPRESCI prize at Gotenburg 2016. His latest feature, Echo (Berg­mál), competing here at...
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Prazer, Camarades!| A Pleasure Comrades! (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 10, 2019
Dir.: Jose Filipe Costa; Cast: Cecilia Rodrigues, Eduarda Rosa, Joao Azevedo, Jose Avelino, Amanda Booth; Portugal 2019, 104 min. Director Jose Filipe Costa (Red Line) adapts Antonio Rodriguez' play entitled '25th...
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