LOCARNO, Switzerland - Unspooling in sweltering humidity, Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival, Europe's biggest mid-Summer movie event, sometimes dazzled, led by an ebullient Emma Thompson. More than ...

Giona A. Nazzaro also discusses Willem Dafoe's turn as a tycoon in 'The Birthday Party,' picking the new Kechiche movie for the 78th edition of the Swiss fest, Japan's return, and the role of comedy ...

Giona A. Nazzaro discusses picking 'Star Wars' sound guru Ben Burtt for an award, a new Letterboxd collaboration, and old-school tech. "It is very important that we can hear the sound of the projector ...

Shah Rukh Khan wins big at Locarno Film FestivalAccording to the Locarno Film Festival, the Pardo alla Carriera Ascona-Locarno Tourism pays tribute to personalities for their artistic contributions ...

Queer romance "Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes," Johannesburg-set funeral farce "Death & Its Friends" and feel-good heist movie "The Color Yellow" ("Manjano") look like potential standouts at ...

Mexican director and producer Carlos Reygadas, U.S. producer Josyln Barnes and actresses Ursina Lardi and Renée Soutendijk have been announced for the main jury of the 78th Locarno Film Festival in ...

Many younger Latin American filmmakers are embracing genre. But they’re not turning out standard shlockfests. Some are genre blending. At Open Doors Projects Lab, “Fiebre Caribe, for instance” is “a ...

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Taken multiple ways, 2024’s Locarno industry days proved hot. Attendance at Locarno Pro, the festival’s industry arm, hit over 1,743 on-site participants and 141 online ...

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 ...

Highlights from the 76th edition of the Swiss festival include dreamy coming-of-age dramas and a hilariously biting new film from the director of "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn." Easy to overlook in ...