The Swiss film festival will honor a film that screens at the legendary open-air Piazza Grande. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Locarno Film Festival is partnering with movie-fan social ...

Cinema can "preserve history, influence mindsets, and provide a space for reflection and escape," says the Cambodian auteur and "chronicler of his country’s traumas and gradual social recovery." By ...

Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan added another accolade to his illustrious career at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, where he was presented with a career achievement honor on Saturday. The superstar, ...

August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s ...

Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival is one of the world's longest-running film festivals, known for its adventurous programming, exciting retrospectives, and nightly open-air screenings in the Piazza ...

The Locarno Film Festival will honor Jane Campion with its Pardo d’onore Manor award. The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate the revered auteur from New Zealand on Aug. 16 ...

The Locarno Film Festival will introduce gender-neutral acting awards for its 76th annual ceremony in 2023, festival organizers announced Wednesday. Already a festival that embraces diverse voices and ...

Highlights from the 76th edition of the Swiss festival include dreamy coming-of-age dramas and a hilariously biting new film from the director of "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn." Easy to overlook in ...

Luhki Herwanayogi, whose short film “On Friday Noon” screened at Locarno Film Festival Open Doors in 2020 and who received ...

The Locarno film festival will shift to gender-neutral acting categories with its 76th edition set to run August 2-12, 2023. The festival’s two main competitions, the Concorso internazionale and ...

Iranian filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh clinched the Golden Leopard in the main international competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival with his latest feature Critical Zone (Mantagheye Bohrani).

Easy to overlook in the looming shadow of the Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals (and all of the awards season hoopla they portend), Switzerland’s historic Locarno Film Festival ...