The 79th Locarno Film Festival gets underway

The 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival opens in southern Switzerland with a film musical accompaniment to the silent film The General by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. This evening, the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive an award in Piazza Grande. The usual film concert, in collaboration with th

05 August 2026 The film You Don’t Belong Here, directed by Florin Șerban, will premiere at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where it has been selected in the International Competition. The film explores the complex relationship between a father and his son. It follows a physician as he learns the police suspect his t

The Locarno Film Festival opens today with the world premiere of French directorial duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s The Green Eyes in front of 8,000 spectators on the lakeside town’s Piazza Grande. The opening ceremony will also see Isabella Rossellini feted with the festival’s Excellence Award, with further hon

The inclusion of this film is is a significant step in breaking through an unofficial but real international boycott of Israeli cinema, particularly for films that tell an explicitly Israeli sto.

“There’s a lot of introspection and personal investment” in Wavelength sidebar picks by Radu Jude, Beatrice Gibson and Mariano Llinas, says TIFF programmer Andrea Picard.

Nikias Chryssos’ English-language horror film “Bloody Tennis” has secured several international deals, including to Shudder in the U.S., ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. The other deals are for Australia (Umbrella Entertainment), Baltics (BestFilm.eu), Italy (Plaion Pictures), Japan (Extreme Fi

Culture · CINEMA, 2 AUGUST 2026 Key Facts —Dates — The Locarno Film Festival runs from 5 to 15 August 2026 in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino. —Career Leopard — James Gray receives the Pardo alla carriera on 9 August 2026 on the open-air Piazza Grande. —Premiere — Gray presents his new film Paper…