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The 78th edition of the Swiss festival will run from August 6 to 16. Emma Thompson, Alexander Payne and Jackie Chan will be among the stars who are honoured.
View Films by Strand:
- Concorso Internazionale
- Critics' Week
- Filmmakers of the Present
- Histoire(s) du Cinema
- Pardi Di Domani
- Piazza Grande
- Retrospective
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Locarno Latest Reviews
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
When a single mother discovers the identity of her sperm donor, her pursuit of truth blurs the boundaries between love, ethics, and self-deception.
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
A woman alone in the middle of a snowy wilderness discovers that a teenager has been kidnapped and that she may be the only person who can save her.
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
A scriptwriter is processing what is happening in her life. She meets an innkeeper while traveling.
1997 Linda is eight years old, has few teeth, a very rich grandmother and a beautiful, dangerous and disruptive mother. It will be the encounter with two peers, sisters Azzurra and Marta, that will teach her how to become a child.
A man who is hired to be a father figure for a young girl begins to forge an unexpected connection.
A student faces a choice about whether to run with the pack at an intense art school.
Documentary considering Ireland's contemporary music scene, but also that of a postcolonial society wrestling with its heritage.
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