Locarno Film Festival

New Year, New Films | 2019 in focus
Jan 1, 2019
2019 gets off to an impressive start with two extraordinary arthouse dramas both releasing in January. Timothée Chalamet plays a young man struggling with addition in Felix Van Groeningen's  A Beautiful...
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Tribute to Richard Lormand (1962-2018)
Dec 19, 2018
It is with great sadness that we pay tribute to one of our greatest supporters, film consultants and readers Richard Lormand who has died aged 56. During a long and distinguished...
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All Good (Alles is gut) ***
Dec 5, 2018
Dir: Eva Trobisch | Cast: Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Dohler, Tilo Nest, Lina Wendel | Germany | Eva Trobisch’s All Good, is about the dark night of the soul in the aftermath...
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Gangbyun Hotel (Hotel by the River) *** Locarno International Film Festival 2018
Aug 10, 2018
Dir/Scr Hong Sang-soo. South Korea. 2018. 96mins The meaning of life seeps through the quietest moments of Hong Sang-Soo’s GANGBYUN HOTEL (HOTEL BY THE RIVER), a poetic cocktail of family dysfunction...
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The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin (2018) **** Locarno Film Festival 2018
Aug 10, 2018
Dir.: Benjamin Crotty; Cast: Alexis Manetti, Antoine Cholet, Pauline Jacquard, Caroline Deruas; France 2018, 26 min. Winner of the Mantarraya award at this year’s Locarno Film festival, Benjamin Crotty’s quirky exploration...
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A Land Imagined (2018) *** Golden Leopard winner | Locarno 2018
Aug 9, 2018
Dir: Yeo Siew Hua | Drama | 95'  A Land Imagined could have been rather a good noirish thriller, judging from the early scenes which see a slightly sleazy Singapore detective hot...
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Birds of Passage (2018) ****
Aug 8, 2018
Dir: Ciro Guerra |Dir/Prod: Cristina Gallego | Drama | Colombia | Cast: | Carmina  Martínez, Jhon Narváez, José Acosta, José Vicente Cotes, Juan Martínez, Natalia Reyes | 110’ Embrace of the Serpent (2015) was the first Colombian...
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Those Who Work (2018) **** Locarno International Film Festival 2018
Aug 7, 2018
Dir/Writer: Antoine Russbach, Emmanuel Marre | Switzerland,Belgium | Cast: Olivier Gourmet | August 2018 | 100' Premiering here at Locarno Film Festival, this hugely enjoyable and absorbing drama from Swiss director Antoine...
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Tegnap | Hier (2018) **** Locarno International Film Festival 2018
Aug 7, 2018
Writer/Dir: Balint Kenyeres | Cast: Vlad Ivanov | Thriller | 119' Hungarian filmmaker Balint Kenyeres is best known for his Cannes awarded short film Before Dawn and The History Of Aviation which opened the Directors’...
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