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El sonido. Trailer para 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 de 𝗟ê 𝗕ả𝗼 que compite en #Locarno2026
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July 25, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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looking she said I forget by Naomi Pacifique
Short Film with free watch today! at #Locarno2026
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May 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Trailer para 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺’𝘴 𝘝𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 de 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗖ô𝘁é, que compite en #Locarno2026
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Trailer para Nobody’s Violence de Denis Côté
Tras su reciente documental Paul, el director Denis Côté vuelve a elucubrar alternativas turbias en su nuevo trabajo, una Nobody's Violence (Violence du corps de l’autre) que compite en el Fes
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July 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Trailer para 𝘓𝘰𝘴 𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘴 de 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗼 𝗣𝗹á, Mención especial del premio Pardo for Change a su paso por #Locarno2026
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August 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #AnaVaz 's #Hanabi. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Hanabi ★★
A self-absorbed, sensorial film about the long shadow of a catastrophe, Ana Vaz’s second feature tries to grasp the trauma and pain lingering after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fu…
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August 23, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Following her debut at 2018 Forum, Spanish director Meritxell Colell Aparicio co-directed *Strange River*, which premiered in the Orizzonti section last summer and for which she wrote the screenplay. She is now presenting her third feature film, *Far From the Trees*, in #Locarno2026 competition.
August 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #FabioLovino 's #MarcoBellocchio: La porta della Realtà. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Marco Bellocchio: La porta della Realtà (documentary) ★★
Conceived after nearly two decades of collaboration between the prominent photographer and the renowned filmmaker, and feeling about as long, Fabio Lovino’s personal portrait of Marco Bellocc…
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August 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #ErinVassilopoulos' #DestroyAllGirls. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Destroy All Girls ★★★★
Some films breathe so intensely the air of one specific film festival that they—in any sense of the word—feel made to be screened there. This, however, would lend an uncomfortable and undeserved st…
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August 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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El gran atraco. Trailer para 𝘖 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘳é de 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹 𝗱𝗮 𝗖𝘂𝗻𝗵𝗮 que compite en #Locarno2026
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Trailer para O jacaré de Basil da Cunha
El director portugués Basil da Cunha es uno de esos que levanta pasiones en los festivales. Desde Hasta ver la luz a O fim do mundo, son muchos los internacionales que se han fijado en su estilo.
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August 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Five LGBTQIA+ and queer-adjacent films are having their world premieres at Locarno 2026: I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, Objet A, At Night, Ketticè and Nobody’s Violence.

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Locarno 2026's LGBTQIA+ films: casts, plots and screening dates | Flicker Magazine
Locarno Film Festival 2026 runs 5 to 15 August in Switzerland. Here is every LGBTQIA+ and queer adjacent title in the lineup, with dates and casts.
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August 7, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #F.J.Ossang 's short film #TombofDreams. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Tomb of Dreams ★★½
In a world of constant and consecutive catastrophes, where one terrible event is surpassed by the next before its consequences have even been processed, would people even notice the apocalypse? Wou…
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August 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #MarleenValien 's #Paradeisa. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Paradeisa ★★½
If there is a slight spoiler hidden in the synopsis of Marleen Valien’s first feature, it’s for a good reason. Reading the brief introduction to the story evokes the notion of already knowing…
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August 25, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #DamienHauser 's experimental film #MemoryofPrincessMumbi. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Memory of Princess Mumbi ★★½
Financial limitations, production challenges, as well as the tropes and pitfalls of the mise en abyme, become part of the very essence of Damien Hauser’s evocative experimental feature Memory…
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August 24, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #RebekahMcKendry 's #Sundown. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Sundown ★½
An isolated cabin in the wintry Canadian countryside becomes the site of a family kangaroo court, as elderly Donna (Olwen Fouéré) abducts the man she believes murdered her granddaughter. The latter…
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August 24, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #NaëlKhleifi and #LisaDebauche 's #SummerMeadow. Read her review of the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Summer Meadow ★★★
“Quite a lot of people get lost,” remarks the young protagonist of Naël Khleifi and Lisa Debauche’s intimate portrait of inner and outer exile. Premiering at Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del P…
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August 23, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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#ICYMI: Lida Bach reviews #AbdelhamidBouchnak 's #Bakma. Read her thoughts on the #Locarno2026 film below:

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Bakma ★½
“Bakma” is a Tunisian term for voicelessness or the inability to speak, Abdelhamid Bouchnak explains in a brief introduction, just before the world premiere of his gritty crime thriller. The fourth…
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August 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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"I see the combination of real-life settings with totalitarian elements as playgrounds that can give rise to absurd humour." 🎾🩸 At #Locarno2026, Cineuropa's Teresa Vena talked to German director Nikias Chryssos about his fourth feature, Bloody Tennis. Read the interview here: cineuropa.org/494420
Nikias Chryssos • Director of Bloody Tennis
18/08/2026 - We talked to the German director about his gripping and very funny horror film, as well as his fascination for tennis
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August 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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"The capacity of sound to summon the invisible, all the other worlds an image might contain but which remain unseen, is incredible." 🎧🎵 Filmmaker Meritxell Colell Aparicio about her #Locarno2026 competition entry Far from the Trees. #cinema
Read the full interview here: cineuropa.org/494429
Meritxell Colell Aparicio • Director of Far from the Trees
17/08/2026 - The Catalonian filmmaker discusses her transnational exploration of exile, endangered languages and inherited memory shaped through sound and hybrid cinematic forms
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August 19, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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#Locarno79 FIPRESCI award to Lejos de Los Árboles (Far from the Trees) by Meritxell Colell Aparicio
J#Locarno2026
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August 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Une mention et un prix pour le cinéaste québécois Denis Côté. Bravo!

#cinémaquébécois #Locarno2026
August 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Winner of Best Film at 2023 Locarno FotP and Best Debut Film, Singaporean director Nelson Yeo also presented a short film at 2025 Berlinale. He returns to #Locarno2026 competition with *The House on the Moon* for Parallax.
August 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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"The Riverbank restores power to those who are normally rendered invisible because they are different and therefore dangerously destabilising." 👁️‍🗨️ Read the review of #Locarno2026 competition film The Riverbank by Matheus Farias & Enock Carvalho:
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Review: The Riverbank
13/08/2026 - In their debut feature, Brazilian directors Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho portray several highly strung, proud and fearless characters who are fighting to exist
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August 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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🎬 "The film challenges the stigma suffocating people experiencing homelessness, who are viewed as personal failures, rather than as the victims of a systemic problem..." - Read the #review of Peter Brunner's latest feature and #Locarno2026 entry, Down the Arm of God, here: cineuropa.org/494403
Review: Down the Arm of God
13/08/2026 - Austrian director Peter Brunner gives a voice to those silenced by a greedy, ruthless consumer society that has lost all trace of humanity
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August 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Chinese animator Sun Xun, who has previously been invited to Venice and Berlin, is presenting his debut film *Magic Atlas* at #Locarno2026 FotP.
August 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Following two short films at Cannes Quinzaine, Basil da Cunha – a Swiss filmmaker of Portuguese origin – also presented his debut feature there in 2013. He returns to #Locarno2026 to present *O Jacaré* in competition for Low Light.
August 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM