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1717 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

The Locarno Pro team sums up this year’s edition

The Locarno Pro team sums up this year’s edition

Project managers of each section of Locarno Pro, the industry side of the Locarno Film Festival, gave us their verdict on the 2019 edition  

20/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Locarno Pro

Basil Da Cunha  • Director of O fim do mundo

Interview: Basil Da Cunha • Director of O fim do mundo

"I didn’t arrive in Reboleira thinking ‘I’m a director’. I was first accepted and respected as a person"

Swiss and Portuguese director Basil Da Cunha tells us about his latest film O fim do mundo, screened in competition at Locarno  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Vitalina Varela comes out of the darkness to win the prestigious Golden Leopard at Locarno

Vitalina Varela comes out of the darkness to win the prestigious Golden Leopard at Locarno

Perhaps not so unexpectedly, the rigour and tenacity of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa seduced the jury of the International Competition  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition/Filmmakers of the Present/Signs of Life/Piazza Grande/Moving Ahead/Awards

Review: Echo

Review: Echo

Rúnar Rúnarsson’s film is not another Christmas movie  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Locarno Pro’s Open Doors Hub and Lab hand out their awards

Locarno Pro’s Open Doors Hub and Lab hand out their awards

The established Locarno Pro initiative commenced its three-year cycle of focus on South-East Asia and Mongolia  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Locarno Pro

REPORT: Alliance for Development, Locarno Pro 2019

REPORT: Alliance for Development, Locarno Pro 2019

Seven projects from Switzerland, Italy and Germany attended the Locarno Pro initiative focused on strengthening partnerships between film funds in neighbouring countries  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Locarno Pro

Review: O fim do mundo

Review: O fim do mundo

Basil Da Cunha returns with a challenging and poetic work which reveals the dark side of the too often idealised city of Lisbon  

13/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Rúnar Rúnarsson • Director of Echo

Interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson • Director of Echo

“Making Echo was like jumping into a deep pool in complete darkness”

Cineuropa caught up with Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson, who is showing his latest film, Echo, at Locarno  

13/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Baghdad In My Shadow

Review: Baghdad In My Shadow

Adopting a characteristically lucid and multifaceted approach, Samir addresses the complex and sensitive subject of exile  

13/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Out of Competition

Review: Parents

Review: Parents

The film by the Swiss directing duo Eric Bergkraut and Ruth Schweikert takes us by the hand and into the intimacy of a modern family grappling with everyday life  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Out of Competition

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