The 2020 special edition of the Locarno Film Festival, deemed For the Future of Films, gathers audiences in both virtual and physical space. At the center of this year's festival are 20 suspended projects, each halted in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, that will compete in the The Films After Tomorrow section. From Lisandro Alonso and Miguel Gomes to Lav Diaz and Lucrecia Martel, these 22 filmmakers have also joined together to handpick twenty films from previous editions of the festival. The program, A Journey in the Festival's History, is an anthology of timeless films from Locarno's past (from 1948 to 2019) that reflect the festival's spirit of discovery and celebration of stylistic breakthrough. Mubi is immensely proud to be partnering with the festival to make these selections available for streaming outside Switzerland. Below, the directors have shared some words about their inspired choices. Wang Bing on Horse MoneyPedro Costa’s films explore...
- 8/12/2020
- MUBI
Like most film festivals this year, Locarno Film Festival will not be moving ahead as usual. However, they’ve found inventive ways to both celebrate filmmakers they’ve long admired and present films physically and digitally. After announcing a new initiative to support new films by Lucrecia Martel, Lisandro Alonso, Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Miguel Gomes, and more, they’ve asked this class of talented directors to select their favorite films in Locarno history.
A Journey in the Festival’s History is devoted to Locarno’s 73-year history of showing the best in international cinema. Made up of twenty films, a selection will screen online for those in Switzerland as well as Mubi internationally. On August 5-15, they will also screen in person at Locarno’s theaters.
Lili Hinstin, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “It would be an impossible task to present a review of the history...
A Journey in the Festival’s History is devoted to Locarno’s 73-year history of showing the best in international cinema. Made up of twenty films, a selection will screen online for those in Switzerland as well as Mubi internationally. On August 5-15, they will also screen in person at Locarno’s theaters.
Lili Hinstin, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “It would be an impossible task to present a review of the history...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Films by Roberto Rossellini, Chantel Akerman and Marguerite Duras feature in selection.
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the selection of 20 classic film titles that will be showcased in its A Journey In The Festival’s History sidebar as part of its special hybrid edition running August 5 to 15.
The line-up is part of the festival’s ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’ edition which was created after it was forced to cancel its 73rd edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The titles have been selected by the directors taking part in its festival’s exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative...
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the selection of 20 classic film titles that will be showcased in its A Journey In The Festival’s History sidebar as part of its special hybrid edition running August 5 to 15.
The line-up is part of the festival’s ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’ edition which was created after it was forced to cancel its 73rd edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The titles have been selected by the directors taking part in its festival’s exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative...
- 7/20/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
COLOGNE, Germany -- An adolescent sex comedy, a period drama and a road movie set in China are among the nominees competing for best film at the 2004 Swiss Film Prize, Switzerland's top film award. Films that made the cut, according to a Swiss Film Council announcement Tuesday, include Mike Eschmann's Ready, Steady, Charlie! a comedy set in a Swiss army base that has been a local boxoffice hit; Ursula Meier's sports drama Strong Shoulders; Anna Luif's teen love story Little Girl Blue; Jean-Francois Amiguet's A Sud des Nuages (South of the Clouds), a road movie that follows a stubborn Swiss farmer who decides to travel to China by train; and Dominique de Rivaz's period piece Jagged Harmonies -- Bach vs. Frederich II, about a musical duel between Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussian King Frederich II.
- 12/3/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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