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The 79th edition of Locarno Film Festival runs from August 5 to 15. It will open with the world premiere for Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s The Green Eyes. We're currently in the process of inputting details, so please check back.
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- Fuori Concurso
- Histoire(s) du Cinema
- International Competition
- Open Doors
- Piazza Grande
- Retrospective
- Swiss Panorama
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Locarno Latest Reviews
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
Documentary about Sufi pilgrims.
Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbours are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
In Sudan, Nafisa picks cotton and learns from her grandmother. The arrival of a young businessman, threatens to change their way of life.
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
A documentary about the films caught up in Hollywood's hunt for Communist infiltrators.
A small Spanish village is thrown into disarray by the news that a delegation of Americans is on its way, bringing the possibility of untold riches.
A train engineer tries to retrieve his locomotive from behind enemy lines.
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