Locarno Film Festival director refutes 'elitist' cinema label

In the run-up to the Locarno Film Festival, its artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, has called for cinema to be accessible to the general public. There should be no divide between arthouse filmmakers and the wider audience, he says in an interview with the Keystone-SDA news agency. The notion that the Locarno Festival is reserved solely for those in the know persists. Festival director Giona Nazzaro brushes it aside with a wave of his hand. The preconception that films from Locarno never make it…