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Jul 31, 2023 · Screen profiles the Piazza Grande and International Competition titles selected for Locarno’s 2023 edition, which runs August 2-12. ... Production company United Channel Movies were behind 2013 ...
Jul 29, 2022 · Screen profiles the Piazza Grande and International Competition titles selected for Locarno’s 75th edition, which runs August 3-13. ... The project screened as a work-in-progress in Locarno’s ...
Jan 7, 2021 · 14 films, including 7 World Premieres, will be screened in Piazza Grande, the huge outdoor theater which has a capacity of 8,000 seats. Concorso internazionale Locarno’s International Competition, exploring new territories in the film arts, will feature 17 titles this year.
- After Blue
- Cop Secret
- Gerda
- The Giants
- Heavens Above
- Juju Stories
- Luzifer
- Medea
- A New Old Play
- The Odd-Job Men
Dir. Bertrand Mandico Mandico’s 2017 feature debut Wild Boys garnered plaudits on the festival circuit, and his second feature After Blue (Paradis Sale) is set on a distant planet terrorised by a vicious killer. It is produced by France’s Ecce Films, also behind Antonin Peretjatko’s The Rendez-Vous Of Déjà-Vu, which played Directors’ Fortnight at C...
Dir. Hannes Thor Halldorsson A professional footballer as well as a filmmaker, Iceland’s Halldorsson has co-written his debut feature about a closeted undercover policeman who falls in love with his new partner. Audunn Blondal and Egill Einarsson play the cops. Producer is Lilja Osk Snorradottir of Pegasus Pictures, who was behind Runar Runarsson’...
Dir. Natalya Kudryashova A troubled young woman is visited by a strange apparition in the second film from Russian actress/filmmaker Kudryashova. Her debut feature Pioneer Heroes played in Berlin’s Panorama in 2015, and she was one of seven female Russian directors to helm a segment of 2016 portmanteau film Petersburg. A Selfie. Gerda participated ...
Dir. Bonifacio Angius After his debut Perfidia played in competition at Locarno 2014, Italian writer/director Angius follows up 2018’s Wherever You Are with his third feature The Giants. Angius also stars — and takes producing, cinematography and editing credits — in the film, which follows a group of old friends who get together in a remote countr...
Dir. Srdjan Dragojevic Serbia’s Dragojevic — who has served as a professor at Belgrade’s film academy and as an MP in the Serbian Parliament — presents three stories about miracles that happen to individuals living in a post-communist society relearning Christianity after 50 years of atheism. The filmmaker’s The Parade was a prize winner in Berlin’...
Dirs. CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi, Abba T Makama, Michael Omonua Writer/directors Obasi (whose 2018 short Hello, Rain played the BFI London Film Festival), Makama (whose satire Green White Green premiered in Toronto’s Lagos City to City programme in 2016) and Omunua (who directed zombie movie Ojuju in 2014) together form Nigerian new wave cinema collective Su...
Dir. Peter Brunner Brunner’s 2014 feature debut My Blind Heart played at festivals including Rotterdam, while his 2018 English-language bow To The Night premiered at Karlovy Vary. Inspired by a true story, Luzifer follows a man whose remote Alpine home is threatened by a tourist development. Contact: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
Dir. Alexander Zeldovich It has been a decade since Russian writer/director Zeldovich’s last film, the sci-fi drama Target, which made its debut at Berlin and played in competition at Sydney. For his follow-up, the filmmaker transposes the titular classic Greek tragedy to contemporary Moscow, as jaded members of the city’s elite find a way to resto...
Dir. Qiu Jiongjiong With his latest film, Chinese writer/director Qiu — who also serves as its editor — explores 20th-century China’s tumultuous history through the memories of a dying theatre clown as he prepares to enter the afterlife. Qiu’s experimental documentary Mr Zhang Believes made its debut at Locarno in 2015. Contact: Uluka Productions
Dir. Neus Ballus Spanish filmmaker Ballus saw both her 2013 feature debut The Plague and her 2019 follow-up Staff Only premiere at Berlin. Her third, The Odd-Job Men, follows three men — all non-actors playing themselves — over six days at a small plumbing and electrical company in Barcelona, as a young Moroccan apprentice must win over his experie...
Piazza Grande. 17 films, including 9 world premieres, will be screened in Piazza Grande, Locarno's open-air theater that accommodates a nightly audience of up to 8,000 people:
- 1946
- Shayda by Noora Niasari
- Golden Leopard: Critical Zone
Aug 3, 2021 · Viewers will be able to choose from 209 films screened over ten days at the Locarno festival. The movie marathon in store for the festivalgoer starts with selecting which films to watch. Here...
The piazza has also been hit by floods in modern times: the three most recent major events took place in 1993, 2000 and 2014, the level of the lake in 2000 rising to 197.58 metres from its usual 193 metres. At times like this, the only way to reach the Piazza Grande is by boat or by walking along a specially built pier that crosses the square.
