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LOCARNO IN FOCUS
Locarno78 wrapped
The 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival concluded yesterday, capping 11 extraordinary days that solidified its position as a vibrant space for cultural exchange and cinematic celebration. The Festival welcomed artists, industry professionals, critics, filmmakers and other film lovers from around the world, underlining its enduring mission: to pay tribute to the variety of contemporary cinema and to chart a path for its future. © Locarno Film FestivalTi-Press Thi...
Locarno78: Rosemead, Directed by Eric Lin and Starring Lucy Liu, Awarded the Prix du Public UBS
The bold American independent drama directed by Eric Lin – produced by and starring Lucy Liu, recipient of Locarno78’s Career Achievement Award – won the hearts of the thousands of spectators in the Piazza Grande, marking 25 years of the audience award in partnership with UBS. ©Rosemead Project LLC The list of the Locarno78 Palmarès, announced in the afternoon on Saturday 16 August at the official ceremony in GranRex, is now complete, with th...
2025 Locarno Open Doors Winners revealed
Open Doors, Locarno’s co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk, has announced its 2025 winners. In 2025, Open Doors entered its 23rd edition with a renewed focus on 42 countries from the African continent. © Locarno Film FestivalTi-Press Six projects in development were selected for its co-production platform, Open Doors Projects, and were eligible for the thre...
Mohammad Rasoulof Received the First Locarno City of Peace Award
A recognition for the promotion of peace, diplomacy, and dialogue – within the Locarno Film Festival and the centenary of the Locarno Treaties © Locarno Film FestivalTi-Press Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was presented with the First Locarno City of Peace Award, established by the City of Locarno in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival. The recognition, conferred as part of the Festival’s Diplomacy Day, aims ...
Locarno Festival Official Juries – 2025
Concorso Internazionale Jury The Concorso Internazionale features works shown primarily as world premieres, coming from all over the globe and competing for the prestigious Pardo d’oro. Related biographies Rithy Panh Joslyn Barnes Ursina Lardi Carlos Reygadas Renée Soutendijk Learn more
Emma Thompson to Receive Leopard Club Award at Locarno78
The Leopard Club Award will be awarded to Emma Thompson on the night of Friday, August 8, 2025. Locarno78 will also be premiering Thompson’s highly anticipated thriller The Dead of Winter by Brian Kirk on the Piazza Grande. © Nick Haddow Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning Emma Thompson is one of the UK’s most recognizable and beloved actors, with a career in acting, writing, and producing that spans...
The Official Poster for Locarno78 designed by Wolfgang Tillmans
The poster for the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, depicting a leopard on a tree branch amid an acid trance of yellow and purple abstraction, was exclusively created by Turner Prize-winning German artist Wolfgang Tillmans for the Festival. ©Wolfgang Tillmans Internationally regarded as one of the most influential and prolific artists of our time, Wolfgang Tillmans’ impact extends beyond the art world into music and pop culture...
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SAN SEBASTIAN IN FOCUS
The San Sebastian Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Line-up
Laura Baumeister, Alvaro Brechner, Ana Endara, Ignacio Juricic, Valeria Pivato and Pablo Stoll, amongst others, to present their projects at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Eleven of the fifteen projects hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Romania, Spain and Uruguay are first or second films The Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum will run from 22-24 September in the framework of the Industry activities of the San S...
The San Sebastian Festival will provide for the seventh consecutive year the Puxika Gorria playroom with a view to fostering work-life balance of accredited guests Set up in San Telmo Museum, the service is for children from the age of six months to twelve years Yet another year, the San Sebastian Festival, the San Telmo Museum, ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the Red Balloon Alliance association and CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Medi...
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VENICE IN FOCUS
Exciting line-up for the Venezia 82 competition with a dazzling array of A-Listers
Venezia 82 The Wizard of the Kremlin Director Olivier Assayas Main Cast Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Jeffrey Wright / France / 120’ Jay Kelly Director Noah Baumbach Main Cast George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Alba Rohrwacher, Josh Hamilton, Lenny Henry, Emily Mortimer, Nicôle Lecky,...
Venice Winston Baker Film ad TV Finance Forum Speaker Additions
Winston Baker’s 2nd Annual Film & Television Finance Forum Venice will bring together high-level entertainment executives to discuss the state of the industry, finance strategies, international partnerships & co-productions, distribution trends and more! ...
2025 Venice Immersive Selection and Competition Unveils 69 projects from 27 countries
Members of the International Jury Include: Eliza McNitt (President), Gwenael François, Boris Labbé The selection of projects for Venice Immersive, the XR - Extended Reality section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (27th August – 6th September 2025) of La Biennale di Venezia, is now complete. Launched in 2017, the section represents the first competition and official selection for works in Extended Reality in an A-list festiv...
Sofia Coppola, Gus van Sant, Julian Schnabel, Werner Herzog, Marco Bellocchio, Yann Arthus-Bertrand to screen out of competition
Fiction Boşluğa xütbə (Sermon to the Void) Director Hilal Baydarov Main Cast Huseyn Nasirov, Maryam Naghiyeva, Rana Asgarova, Elshan Abbasov, Orkhan Iskandarli / Azerbaijan, Mexico, Turkey / 112’ L’isola di Andrea Director Antonio Capuano Main Cast Teresa Saponangelo, Vinicio Marchioni, Andrea Migliucci / Italy / 105’ Il Maestro Director Andrea Di Stefano Main Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Tizia...
Final Cut in Venice 2025 - The 8 selected work-in-progress films
La Biennale di Venezia is proud to announce that the 13. edition of Final Cut in Venice, organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge (Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2025), has selected 8 work-in-progress films. Final Cut in Venice is the industry program that has been providing since 2013 concrete support in the completion of films from all African countries and from six countries of the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen. Fi...
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PEOPLE IN FOCUS
Sydney Film Festival celebrates the incredible life and legacy of David Stratton AM, honouring his passing
Sydney Film Festival, and by extension the very culture of cinema in Australia, would not exist as it does today without the remarkable passion and devotion of David Stratton who was the Festival Director from 1966 until 1983. His achievements are too innumerable to list in totality, and would include his successful fight against censorship of films in Australia, the establishment of the Travelling Film Festival, support for emerging filmmakers from Australia and around the world, and fosteri...
Interview with Director Producer Robert Enriquez for Latest Film "Stone Creek" (2025)
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Robert Enriquez is an American filmmaker of Filipino descent whose career in the entertainment industry spans over twenty-five years. As a director and producer, Robert has made many films that have gone on to distribution in more than eighteen different countries and has brokered deals with Amazon, Google Play, Comcast, Showtime, Netflix, and Lionsgate. His projects have placed in top-tier film festivals and received Emmy and Tony recognition. Cash for Gold was...
Can You Guess Sean Young’s Favorite Film?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent As everything with Sean Young, who’s busy these days with ComicCon’s, Film work, TV Guest spots, Celebrity appearances, plus a TCM gig with Disney Cruises, the final result is spectacular… if you wait long enough. Actually, that’s an inside joke because actor Sean Young delivers more than promised for her Top 10 assignment. The praying photo of her above is by none other than the late Robert Mapplethorpe. As they say in...