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Locarno: Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche & ‘Viet And Nam’ Filmmaker Trương Minh Quý Among Directors Set To Debut New Works In Competition 

July 8, 2025
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Locarno: Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche & ‘Viet And Nam’ Filmmaker Trương Minh Quý Among Directors Set To Debut New Works In Competition 
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Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival will debut 17 features, including new works by Radu Jude and Abdellatif Kechiche, as part of its 2025 competition. This year’s event runs from August 6 to 16. 

The festival announced its competition lineups this morning. The Radu Jude feature is his much-talked-about Dracula. The film was shot in Transylvania and is said to blend several takes on the Dracula story. Teasing the project as last year’s Locarno Film Festival, Jude said: “I am from Romania. My father is actually from Transylvania. It’s time that someone from Romania does a Dracula film. It’s only Hollywood that has done it 1,000 times. We shouldn’t let Hollywood dominate our Dracula.” 

The Abdellatif Kechiche feature is Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, the third edition in his controversial Mektoub series. Ben Rivers, a Locarno regular, will debut his latest feature, Mare’s Nest. Scroll down for the full Loarno lineup. 

Elsewhere, Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý, best known for his buzzy feature Viet and Nam, will debut Hair, Paper, Water…, a new feature co-directed with Nicolas Graux. Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff, the duo behind Payal Kapadia’s groundbreaking feature debut All We Imagine As Light, are producers on the film, which will screen in Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del Presente section. 

Locarno’s separate Piazza Grande lineup features 14 titles, including Cannes titles Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi, and Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Jennifer Lopez.

Discussing this year’s edition, Locarno head Giona A. Nazzaro described his competition lineup as the best representation of “what is alive, necessary, and daring in contemporary cinema today.”

“These are films designed for the cinema and for the collective experience in front of the screen. Once again, cinema is now – and facing into the future,” Nazzaro added. 

As previously announced, cinema legend Jackie Chan, Alexander Payne, and Ang Lee are among the filmmakers set to receive honorary awards. 

Check out the lineup below. 

Piazza Grande   06.08.2025 LE PAYS D’ARTO (IN THE LAND OF ARTO)* by Tamara Stepanyan  France, Armenia – 2025  World premiere  07.08.2025 THE BIRTHDAY PARTY* by Miguel Ángel Jiménez  Greece, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom – 2025  World premiere  08.08.2025 THE DEAD OF WINTER* by Brian Kirk  USA, Germany – 2025 World premiere  TOGETHER* by Michael Shanks  Australia, USA – 2025 Swiss premiere  09.08.2025 AFFEKSJONSVERDI (SENTIMENTAL VALUE)* by Joachim Trier Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden – 2025 Swiss premiere  POLICE STORY by Jackie Chan  Hong Kong – 1985    10.08.2025  TESTA O CROCE? (HEADS OR TAILS?)* By Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis Italy, USA – 2025 Swiss premiere  THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick United Kingdom, USA – 1980  11.08.2025  THE DEAL* by Jean-Stéphane Bron  Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium – 2025  Swiss premiere  Episodes 1&2   12.08.2025 IRKALLA HULM JIJILJAMISH (IRKALA – GILGAMESH’S DREAM)* by Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, France, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia – 2025  World premiere  13.08.2025 LA PETITE DERNIÈRE* by Hafsia Herzi  France, Germany – 2025  Swiss premiere  14.08.2025 ROSEMEAD* by Eric Lin USA – 2025  International premiere  15.08.2025 UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT (IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT)* by Jafar Panahi Iran, France, Luxembourg – 2025  Swiss premiere  16.08.2025 KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN by Bill Condon USA, Uruguay – 2025  International premiere 

Concorso Internazionale  AS ESTAÇÕES (THE SEASONS) by Maureen Fazendeiro – Portugal, France, Spain, Austria – 2025 World premiere   BOG NEĆE POMOĆI (GOD WILL NOT HELP) by Hana Jušić – Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia – 2025 World premiere   DONKEY DAYS by Rosanne Pel – Netherlands, Germany – 2025  World premiere  DRACULA by Radu Jude – Romania, Austria, Luxembourg – 2025  World premiere   DRY LEAF by Alexandre Koberidze – Germany, Georgia – 2025 World premiere   LE BAMBINE (MOSQUITOES) by Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani – Italy, Switzerland, France – 2025 World premiere   LE LAC by Fabrice Aragno – Switzerland – 2025  World premiere   LINIJE ŽELJE (DESIRE LINES) by Dane Komljen – Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany – 2025  World premiere   MARE’S NEST by Ben Rivers – United Kingdom, France, Canada – 2025  World premiere   MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: CANTO DUE by Abdellatif Kechiche – France – 2025 World premiere  SEHNSUCHT IN SANGERHAUSEN (PHANTOMS OF JULY) by Julian Radlmaier – Germany – 2025 World premiere  SOLOMAMMA by Janicke Askevold – Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland – 2025  World premiere   SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenović – Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain – 2025 World premiere  TABI TO HIBI (TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS) by Sho Miyake – Japan – 2025  World premiere   TALES OF THE WOUNDED LAND by Abbas Fahdel – Lebanon – 2025  World premiere  WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter – Austria, Germany – 2025  World premiere   WITH HASAN IN GAZA by Kamal Aljafari – Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar – 2025 World premiere  

Concorso Cineasti del Presente  AFFECTION AFFECTION by Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray – France – 2025  World premiere   BALEARIC by Ion de Sosa – Spain, France – 2025  World premiere   BECOMING by Zhannat Alshanova – France, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Lithuania, Sweden – 2025 World premiere   BLUE HERON by Sophy Romvari – Canada, Hungary – 2025  World premiere   DON’T LET THE SUN by Jacqueline Zünd – Switzerland, Italy – 2025  World premiere   FANTASY by Kukla – Slovenia, North Macedonia – 2025  World premiere   FOLICHONNERIES (FOLLIES) by Eric K. Boulianne – Canada – 2025 World premiere   GIOIA MIA (SWEETHEART) by Margherita Spampinato – Italy – 2025  World premiere   HIJO MAYOR by Cecilia Kang – Argentina, France – 2025  World premiere   NU MĂ LĂSA SĂ MOR (DON’T LET ME DIE) by Andrei Epure – Romania, Bulgaria, France – 2025  World premiere   OLIVIA by Sofía Petersen – Argentina, United Kingdom, Spain – 2025  World premiere   THE FIN by Park Syeyoung – South Korea, Germany, Qatar – 2025 World premiere   THE PLANT FROM THE CANARIES by Ruan Lan-Xi – Germany – 2025  World premiere   TÓC, GIẤY VÀ NƯỚC… (HAIR, PAPER, WATER…) by Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý – Belgium, France, Vietnam – 2025 World premiere   UN BALCON À LIMOGES (A BALCONY IN LIMOGES) by Jérôme Reybaud – France – 2025  World premiere

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