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The Story Of Southern Islet
The 74th edition of this Swiss festival ran between August 4 and 14.
View Films by Strand:
- Concorso Internationale
- Fuori Concorso
- Locarno Kids
- Open Doors Screenings
- Panorama Suisse
- Piazza Grande
- Semaine de la Critique
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Locarno Latest Reviews
The tale of an impotent man who tries to assert his masculinity through fighting but cannot come to terms with his past.
Mismatched buddy cop spoof.
After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity.
A woman who is travelling to see a shaman to seek help for her ailing husband endures strange encounters and unearthly experiences.
Documentary follows a former child soldier who now helps families regain their stolen children in the economically deprived townships in South Africa.
Nelie escapes a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914 and goes on to discover emancipation can come with a price.
Fantasy and reality meet in the emotional world of a teenage father.
Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm of nature, among animals and the spirits of the dead. Their enclave brings peace and a sense of security, but they feel a growing longing for contact with other people.
Documentary composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment.
An epic journey through all the layers of hell.
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