For its 75th edition, the Locarno Film Festival, which takes place from August 3 to 13, 2022, offers a main event with 226 film screenings. “Bullet Train” with Brad Pitt opens the festivities.
For its 75th edition, from August 3 to 13, 2022, the Locarno Film Festival is thinking big: 226 films are shown, international stars are expected, and many surprises.
Located in a magical place between the Alps and the shores of Lake Maggiore, the city becomes the capital of international cinema for a few days. “Committed to freedom, in its 75th anniversary Locarno aims to be a place where one can discover and discuss cinema in all its
Demonstrations. Always with an eye firmly turned to the future– says artistic director Giona A. Nazaro.
This special year opens with a great moment this Wednesday, August 3, with a screening of David Leitch’s Bullet Train with Brad Pitt. More than 8,000 people will gather in Piazza Grande to discover the film that will kick off the festivities. A guaranteed show.
Many filmmakers will be awarded within the framework of the festival. Filmmaker Kelly Reichart to receive Pardo d’onore Manor; Lori Anderson, Ticinomoda Vision Award; Gitanjali Rao, Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare; Jason Blum, Award for Best Independent Producer; Costa-Gavras, Pardo alla carriera Ascona-Locarno and Matt Dillon, Lifetime Achievement Award.
The series featured actress Daisy Edgar-Jones Normal people and presented Where the crabs sing, will receive the Leopard Club Award. As for Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is in Bullet Train with Brad Pitt, he will receive the Excellence Award.
And then the movies? A few French women are to be expected, notably Sophie Marceau in Jean-Paul Civeirac’s Une femme de notre temps; Laure Kallam in Blandine Lenoir’s Anne Kohler, or even Juliette Binoche, who plays Anne Guto in Paradise Highway with Morgan Freeman.
International competition:
By Ariippu Mahesh Narayanan
Sermon to the Fish (Balığıka xütbə) by Hilal Baidarov
Bowling Saturn Patricia Mazui
De noche los gatos son pardos by Valentin Mertz
Gigi Leg by Alessandro Comodini
Tales of the Purple One by Abbas Fahdel
Flowers of Human Flesh by Helena Wittmann
Il Patafio by Francesco Lagi
Matter is Misplaced by Nikolaus Geirhalter
Nakao Valente By Carlos Conceicao
Piaf by Anne Oren
Julia Murat Regra 34
Serviam – Ich will dienen by Ruth Mader
Skazka by Alexander Sokorov
Stella is in love with Sylvie Verheide
Ming Jin Wu’s Stone Turtle
Tengo sueños electricos by Valentina Maurelli
Piazza Grande:
All about Martin Suter. Everything But the Truth by Andre Shaffer
Annie Braz By Blandine Lenoir
Bullet Train By David Leitch
Costa Gavra Assassin’s Compartment
Delta by Michele Vannucci
Brave House by Lori Anderson
The Imitation of Life by Douglas Sirk
The Last Dance by Delphine Leheris
Medusa Deluxe by Thomas Hardiman
My neighbor Adolf Leon Prudovsky
Paradise Highway By Anna Guto
Piano Piano by Nicola Prosatore
Printed by Rainbow Gitanjali Rao
Semret by Katerina Mona
A woman of our time By Jean Paul Civeirac
You will not have my hatred for Killian Riedhoff
Where they sing about Olivia Newman’s cancer
To explore the entire selection, scroll on here.
What movie will follow? Vengeance is mine and everyone else pays in cash Indonesian Edwin to be awarded the Golden Leopard in 2021? Answer on August 13.
Source: allocine
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