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REPORT: Locarno 2026

Cineuropa is covering the 79th Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2026
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55 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2026. Last article published on 23/09/2026.

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Ana Vaz • Director of Hanabi

Interview: Ana Vaz • Director of Hanabi

“It's a film which needs to be seen, as well as heard”

The Brazilian filmmaker focuses on Fukushima to probe an invisible, planetary catastrophe in a sensorial documentary where sound, time and images resonate with one another  

23/09 | /France/Brazil

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2026

REPORT: Swiss Films Previews @ Locarno Pro 2026

Swiss Films presents six previews of feature films slated to arrive between autumn 2026 and summer 2027, ranging from a queer love story to the Halifax air disaster  

19/08 | Locarno 2026 | Locarno Pro

Review: At Night

Review: At Night

Beatrice Gibson’s feature debut is an atmospheric roundelay through nocturnal Paris, exploring the lives of a broad spectrum of women  

19/08 | Locarno 2026 | Filmmakers of the Present

Felix Randau • Director of I Is Another

Interview: Felix Randau • Director of I Is Another

“If you push evil away or ignore it, it doesn’t disappear; it resurfaces somewhere else”

The German helmer breaks down his new film about Felix Kersten, masseur to Heinrich Himmler, as well as his visual concept for it and how best to represent evil  

19/08 | Locarno 2026 | Piazza Grande

Nikias Chryssos • Director of Bloody Tennis

Interview: Nikias Chryssos • Director of Bloody Tennis

“I see the combination of real-life settings with totalitarian elements as playgrounds that can give rise to absurd humour”

We talked to the German director about his gripping and very funny horror film, as well as his fascination for tennis  

18/08 | Locarno 2026 | Out of Competition

Review: All About Corinne

Review: All About Corinne

Marc Fitoussi lifts the veil on the behind-the-scenes world of cinema with mocking yet affectionate humour, embodied by Isabelle Huppert as an ambitious extra and Sandrine Kiberlain playing herself  

18/08 | Locarno 2026 | Piazza Grande

Basil Da Cunha • Director of O Jacaré

Interview: Basil Da Cunha • Director of O Jacaré

“Reboleira’s architecture reflects a very particular idea of community and of living together”

The Swiss director of Portuguese origin discusses how he created his passionate blend of comedy, drama and music  

18/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: Love Lessons

Review: Love Lessons

French director Martin Provost’s latest feature is a meditation on love and an ode to levity in spite of life’s hardships  

17/08 | Locarno 2026 | Piazza Grande

Review: The Chilean

Review: The Chilean

Sergio Castro San Martín tells the story of a Chilean émigré in Turin who ends up getting involved in making bombs for a group of local revolutionaries  

17/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Meritxell Colell Aparicio • Director of Far from the Trees

Interview: Meritxell Colell Aparicio • Director of Far from the Trees

“Memory must be received through listening”

The Catalonian filmmaker discusses her transnational exploration of exile, endangered languages and inherited memory shaped through sound and hybrid cinematic forms  

17/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

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