16+ hour, 44+ min ago   (214+ words) MOTELX AWARD – Best Portuguese Horror Short Film 2026 The same jury awarded the Méliès d’argent Award – Best European Short Film 2026 to “Mancave” (Norway), directed by Fredrik S. Hana. Among the 19 films in competition, the jury singled out “a film that depicts…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (988+ words) When Asia Argento received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, the honor arrived at a moment when she had begun to question whether her career still had a future. Presenting two markedly different new films, she spoke…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (613+ words) Brazilian filmmakers Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias make an atmospheric feature debut with a slow-burning queer neo-noir that pits intimacy and solidarity against the murderous politics of the militarized religious right. Premiering in the Locarno Film Festival’s main competition, The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (320+ words) Marion Cotillard stars in Bertrand Mandico's a surrealistic tribute to golden age actresses, celluloid cinema and Italian culture. The Locarno Film Festival has become a home for Bertrand Mandico’s projects, and his latest, Roma Elastica, which premiered in Cannes’ Midnight…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1219+ words) Darren Aronofsky has been celebrated at the 79th edition of Locarno Film Festival with the Pardo d’Onore, recognizing a career willing to risk. Aronofsky gave a talk in Locarno reflecting on his career. His career began because he failed to enter…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (915+ words) During a conversation in Locarno, Luca Guadagnino reached for an image that seemed to contain both his pessimism about the film business and his reason for producing Giovanni Tortorici. The Italian industry, Guadagnino argued, has become a desert. Yet even…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1497+ words) August 20 2026, 7:02 AM Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, the acclaimed duo behind The Wolf House and The Hyperboreans, have spent two decades dissolving the boundaries between animation, live action, puppetry and performance. Their latest feature, Donkey Princess (orig. Princesa…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1952+ words) Twenty years after his debut feature Drifting States won the Golden Leopard at Locarno, prolific Québécois auteur and former film critic Denis Côté returns to the festival’s international competition with his 17th feature, Nobody’s Violence. In discussion with Screen Anarchy, the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1090+ words) Locarno Pro closed its largest edition to date, passing 2,000 accreditations for the first time and reinforcing its position as an increasingly consequential meeting point for independent cinema. The 2026 edition registered 2,140 industry delegates, up 10% from 1,940 in 2025, including 1,949 professionals on site and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1808+ words) Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist Ann Oren joins actors Aenne Schwarz and Louis Hofmann to discuss her second fiction feature, Objet a. Visionary hand surgeons Ingeborg and Adam inhabit a tightly controlled relationship until an accident brings the enigmatic Gaia (Simone…...