Locarno Festival’s Best Independent Producer Award goes to the Swiss Michel Merkt e123f
Michel Merkt Producer Michel Merkt will be next to step up to receive the prize that for 15 years Locarno has awarded to leading players in international independent production. After Mike Medavoy, Christine Vachon and David Linde – to name just three – the 2017 The Best Independent Producer Award “Raimondo Rezzonico” will go to a Swiss producer whose skills have been crucial to the making of several interna...
Eight projects and eight producers selected for Open Doors 2017 2j2o5z
The exploration of South Asia continues with a new raft of producers and projects that will be showcased for European and international partners at the Locarno Festival during the 15th edition of Open Doors, to be held from 2 to 8 August 2017. The approach of in-depth research pursued by Open Doors is built around three distinct initiatives, Open Doors Lab, Open Doors Hub and Open Doors Screenings, all developed over a three-year period (20...
L’immagine e la parola: a weekend in the world of Edoardo Albinati 2x1w1o
Edoardo Albinati Italian author and screenwriter Edoardo Albinati is to be the pivotal guest for the Locarno Festival’s 5th springtime event L’immagine e la parola, scheduled for 10 to 12 March 2017. Albinati’s writing is an insightful commentary on contemporary Italy, but has also been responsive to the iconography of film, and so the Festival approached him to draw up a program of talks and screenings...
#Locarno70 looks to the future 2020v
Tomorrow, Saturday 21th January, at the 52nd Solothurn Film Festival, Festival President Marco Solari and his team will be holding the first of many special events planned for #Locarno70. An important step along the way to this year’s event, which will be held under the new brand: Locarno Festival. Looking forward to the future and celebrating its first seven decades not so much as an achievement in itself but as a starting point, the Festival will be emerging from a pr...
The 2017 Locarno Retrospective is dedicated to Jacques Tourneur 6z6r2c
© Collection Cinémathèque suisse. Tous droits réservés - A scene of the film I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The 70th Locarno Festival Retrospective will be dedicated to French filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (1904 – 1977). Returning to that dialogue on the part of the Festival with great American cinema, the 2017 Retrospective is turning its glance towards a director who is still not enjoying recogn...
Open Doors 2016-2018: following the pathway of discovery in South Asia, with a new focus for 2017 5w593v
A new three-year formula was introduced in 2016 for Open Doors, the Festival del film di Locarno sidebar in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The sidebar’s brief is to foster independent cinema and offer visibility to directors and filmmakers from countries in the South and East of the world, and in 2017 it is set to build on the success of the new formula by continuing its three-year research pathway on eight Southern Asian nations...
A Swiss stamp to commemorate Locarno' s 70th anniversary 3c5u4n
Details have been announced about the commemorative special stamp to celebrate the Festival del film di Locarno's 70th anniversary, which the Post Office will present as a preview on March 31, 2017. At the traditional Extraordinary Assembly, held at the end of the Festival, an official minute was made, giving details about the announcement made during the closing ceremony on August 13. The commemorative special stamp, which celebrates the Festival del film di Locarno's 70th an...
Locarno Cinelab Award 634a3s
Donald Cried by Kris Avedisian DONALD CRIED by Kris Avedisian wins the Cinelab Award at the Festival del film Locarno on Festival Scope. The award, offered by Cinelab Romania, has been given by the audience of the first Festival del film Locarno online event in partnership with Festival Scope. The initiative between Festival del film Locarno and Festival Scope has presented a selection of 9 films from the Con...
Conclusion of the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno 566w37
Ralitza Petrova © Festival del film Locarno The 2016 edition, the fourth under Carlo Chatrian's Artistic Direction, came to a successful end, crowned with the Pardo d’oro to Godless, directed by Bulgarian filmmaker Ralitza Petrova. Concorso internazionale Pardo d’oro GODLESS by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/ Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize) INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hear...
Locarno 2016 events August 13 3h374d
Tonight on the Red Carpet The Delegation of VINCENT Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami Pardo d'onore Swisscom Alejandro Jodorowski The Delegation of POESÍA SIN FIN Access to the Media Line is only possible with TV + PHOTO available at the Press Office at Palazzo Sopracenerina. Additional Screenings, 13 August MISTER UNIVERSO by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel: Rialto 1 at 09.45 VERSUS: THE LIVE AND FILM OF KEN LOACH by Louise Osmond: Palavideo ...
Interview with Ken Loach Piazza Grande – I, Daniel Blake 496a71
Foto di Alessio Pizzicannella Ken Loach, welcome back to Locarno. What is your fondest memory of Piazza Grande, where you were awarded with the Pardo d'onore in 2003? My overriding memory is the enormity of the screen and the audience, the warmth of its response. I can't think a more impressive size to show a film. It's a spectacul...
Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky Pardo d'onore Swisscom 2016 5x5d6k
Foto di Alessio Pizzicannella Poesía sin fin is by far your most personal movie in many ways, it deals with your own story. How much is fictional and what has been taken from real life? I wrote a book, La danza de la realidad (The Dance of Reality), which goes from my childhood until today. Now I’m trying to do the movie...
The Winners of the Locarno Open Doors Hub 2016 announced 3d318
Open Doors Winners 2016 The winners of the co-production platform Open Doors Hub have been announced today The 2016 edition has seen the launch of a three-year cycle that Open Doors will devote to eight countries in southern Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The international co-production platform Open Doors Hub (4 – 9 August) is part of the new format of Open Doors, which ...
Locarno First Look Award 2016 62o6d
Ptaki Śpiewają W Kigali (Birds are Singing in Kigali) The sixth edition of First Look – the Festival del film Locarno initiative aiming to showcase films in post-production – has presented six polish films. Each one was introduced by its producer to various world sales agents and festival programmers attending the Industry Days. The jury for First Look 2016, comprising Kerem Ayan (Istanbul In...
Festival del film Locarno and Thessaloniki International Film Festival launch inaugural Industry Academy International 2t2o3b
© Thessaloniki International Film Festival photo archive The first edition of the Industry Academy in the South Eastern Europe & Mediterranean will take place in Thessaloniki from 7 – 11 November, 2016. The Festival del film Locarno and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival announced today the launch of a new t initiative in the South Eastern European Countries. After completing successful editions in Mexico, Brazil a...
European Casting Director Award in Locarno 1y6aj
Peter Rommel, Elsa Pharaon, Antoinette Boulat, Clotilde Courau The jury of the first European Casting Director Award, in partnership with the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN), decided to give the Award to Antoinette Boulat & Elsa Pharaon () for STANDING TALL (LA TÊTE HAUTE) by Emmanuelle Bercot. The of the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN) have nominated 21 international casting directors with their respective films. Among t...
Locarno 2016 events August 11 431v6b
Tonight on the Red Carpet The Delegation of JEUNESSE The Delegation of O CINEMA, MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA E EU The Delegation of GODLESS The Delegation of COMBOIO DE SAL E ACUCAR Tribute to Roger Corman Access to the Media Line is only possible with TV + PHOTO available at the Press Office at Palazzo Sopracenerina. Additional Screenings, 11 August L’AMATORE, by Maria Mauti: Kursaal at 09.00 ZAVTRA MORE, by Katerina Suvorova: Rialto 2 at 09.00 THE CHAL...
Locarno 2016 events August 10 673wu
Tonight on the Red Carpet Presentation Open Doors The winners of Open Doors Hub: THE RED PHALLUS DAY AFTER TOMORROW The Delegazione of HEMA HEMA: SING ME A SONG WHILE I WAIT The Delegazione of VOR DER MORGENRÖTE Access to the Media Line is only possible with TV + PHOTO available at the Press Office at Palazzo Sopracenerina. Additional Screenings, 10 August LA PRUNELLE DE MES YEUX, by Axelle Ropert: Rialto 1 at 11.0...
Locarno 2016 events August 9 3s161w
Tonight on the Red Carpet The Delegation of INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hearts) The Delegation of AL MA’ WAL KHODRA WAL WAJH EL HASSAN (Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces) The Delegation of FESTA The Delegation of WHERE IS ROCKY II The Delegation of LE CIEL ATTENDRA Access to the Media Line is only possible with TV + PHOTO available at the Press Office at Palazzo Sopracenerina. PROGRAM CHANGEMENT, 9 August VOR DER MORGENRÖ...
Locarno 2016 events August 8 214r2p
Piazza Grande Events, 8 August LE CIEL ATTENDRA by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar Special Events/Conversations with guest 8 August, 10.30, Spazio Cinema (FORUM) Conversation with Mario Adorf (Pardo alla carriera) Hosted by Roberto Turigliatto and Giona Nazzaro 8 August, 17.30, Sport Café First Look Award Ceremony Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal) 8 August, 09.00, Concorso internazionale MARIJA by Michael Koch 8 August...
Locarno 2016 events August 7 w6s3z
Piazza Grande Events, 7 August PAULA by Christian Schwochow AM TAG, ALS DER REGEN KAM by Gerd Oswald Presentation Retrospettiva and Pardo alla carriera to Mario Adorf Special Events/Conversations with guest 7 August, 11.30, Spazio Cinema (Forum) Conversation with Harvey Keitel Hosted by Dennis Lim 7 August, 17.30, Spazio RSI (La Magnolia) European Casting Director Awards Ceremony, with the presence of Clotilde Courau Hosted by Fionnual...
Locarno 2016 events August 6 96i46
Piazza Grande Events, 6 August CESSEZ-LE-FEU by Emmanuel Courcol DANS LA FORÊT by Gilles Marchand Special Events/Conversations with guests 6 August, 11.00, Spazio Cinema (FORUM) Conversation with Stefania Sandrelli Hosted by Steve Della Casa 6 August, 13.00, Spazio Cinema (FORUM) Red Bull Music Academy presents A Conversation with Gaspar Noé Hosted by Torsten Schmidt Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal) 6 August, 09....
LOcarno 2016 events August 5 2s6v6g
Highlight The conversation with Jane Birkin tomorrow at 10.30 (Spazio Cinema Forum) has been canceled. The conversation will take place at 16.15 at Palavideo and it will be followed by the screening of LA FILLE PRODIGUE by Jacques Doillon Piazza Grande Events, 5 August JASON BOURNE by Paul Greengrass INTERCHANGE by Dain Iskandar Said Leopard Club Award to Stefania Sandrelli Special Events/Conversations with guests 5 August, 11.00,...
Locarno 2016 events August 4 1o2xq
Piazza Grande Events, 4 August MOKA by Frédéric Mermoud Premio Raimondo Rezzonico to David Linde Special Events/Conversations with guests 4 August, 12.00, Spazio RSI (La Magnolia) Conversation with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian Hosted by Marco Zucchi and Daniele Rauseo 4 August, 13.30, Spazio Cinema (FORUM) Conversation with Bill Pullman (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon) Hosted by Eric Kohn Press Screening...
Locarno opens tonight b653l
Piazza Grande Events, 3 August The opening ceremony will take place Wednesday 3 August on the Piazza Grande at 21.30. Presentation of the official juries of the three competitions Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Bill Pullman Screening of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by Colm McCarthy Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal) 3, August, 12.00 Cinema Ex*Rex, Fuori Concorso UN JUIF POUR L’EXEMPLE by Jacob Berger 3 August, 13.30,...
