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The Locarno Film Festival will bestow its Vision Award, presented by Ticinomoda, upon Rick Baker, the seven-time Oscar winner behind some of cinema’s most fantastical creatures. Baker will receive the award in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 12. He will also present, within the festival program, two key films from his career,…
The Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity-seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk has unveiled the participants and partners for its inaugural Open Doors Connect program. Open Doors is gearing up for its second edition with a focus on African cinema. The new Open…
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate the Italian actress, filmmaker, and musician Asia Argento with its Life Achievement Award during its 79th edition this August. Argento will receive the award in Piazza Grande on the evening of Aug. 13 and also present Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Muerte No Tiene Dueño (Death Has No Master), which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight…
The 2026 Locarno Film Festival will honor a trailblazing Iceland-born, U.S.-based film, music video and TV producer who has been behind some of the most popular and renowned movies and series of the past decades: Sigurjón “Joni” Sighvatsson. He will be celebrated with the Raimondo Rezzonico Award in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on the…
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky with its Honorary Leopard, the Pardo d’Onore, presented by Manor, at its 79th edition this summer, organizers said on Tuesday. Lauding Aronofsky as a “visionary,” the festival said he will receive the homor on Friday, Aug. 14 on the Swiss city’s Piazza Grand. He will…
U.S. photographer and artist Cindy Sherman designed the poster for the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which was unveiled on Wednesday. It features a character created by Sherman, rendered in stark black and white and wrapped in a yellow leopard-spotted headscarf. The leopard is the public image of the Locarno fest, which hands…
The independent film industry can’t afford the risk of not taking risks. That is one of the key conclusions of the StepIn 2025 Report, published on Thursday by Locarno Pro, the Locarno Film Festival‘s industry program. Entitled “Embracing the Risk(s), But How?,” the report concludes that “cinema’s future depends on its ability to reframe risk across the ecosystem…
Two Seasons, Two Strangers by Sho Miyake (All the Long Nights, Small, Slow But Steady) is the winner of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s international competition, which was honored with the Pardo d’Oro, or Golden Leopard, in the Swiss town on Saturday. The Japanese drama, based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside…
Dracula, the new film from Romanian provocateur Radu Jadu (Kontinental ’25, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), world premiered in the competition program of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Among the co-producer credits, you find the name of Romanian producer Ada Solomon (Toni Erdmann, Aferim!), known for her work through her company microFILM…
The vampires are coming! Silence (Silencio), a miniseries directed by Spanish filmmaker Eduardo Casanova (Skins) that combines the vampire mythos with the AIDS epidemic, will be part of the official selection at genre festival Fantastic Fest in Austin, which runs Sept. 18-25, following its international premiere at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. In 2023,…