Tabi to Hibi, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake, has won the Pardo d’Oro, the Locarno Film Festival’s main competition award. Miyake is the fourth Japanese winner of ...
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy became an instant arthouse favorite at Cannes in 2024 with his impressive third feature Viet and Nam. Just over a year later, Quy is back ...
The main award of the Open Doors initiative at this year’s Locarno Film Festival was shared by three projects: Black Snake, directed by Naishe Nyamubaya (Zimbabwe); Kachifo, directed by Dika ...
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof says he is in no rush to set his next project following his Oscar-nominated drama, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig. But he may return to ...
Nina Roza, a feature by filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, led the winners at this year’s Locarno Pro awards, taking two gongs. The film, produced by Colonelle films (Canada), won the ...
Jackie Chan told a Q&A audience in Locarno that he believes the big Hollywood studios are stifling contemporary filmmaking with what he described as their obsession with money. “I think ...
Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your ...
“Today, I’m 71, and I can still fight,” veteran Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan proclaimed resolutely this evening at Locarno, where he was awarded the festival’s Pardo alla Carriera award ...
EXCLUSIVE: Korean filmmaker debuts his genre feature The Fin today in Competition at Locarno. You can watch the film’s first trailer above. The film’s official synopsis reads: In a post-war ...
Emma Thompson told an intriguing story this morning at the Locarno Film Festival, where this year she is a guest of honor, that featured what she described as a creepy ...
