Prepare for Dracula, a film made with the participation of the late filmmaking legend David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, this yr’s Cannes winner It Was Simply an Accident, and way more, because the Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition on Tuesday unveiled the lineup for its 78th version. Dracula by Romanian director Radu Jude will get its world premiere as a part of the Swiss fest’s competitors program, whereas Duwayne Dunham (Return of the Jedi, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) will carry the debut of Legend of the Joyful Employee, govt produced by Lynch, to the out-of-competition lineup.
Locarno, happening Aug. 6-16, can even current the newest works from the likes of Abdelletif Kechiche, Vincent Grashaw, Sho Miyake, Ben Rivers, and Rosanne Pel, amongst others.
Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del Presente sidebar, which places the highlight on first and second options, will embrace the likes of coming-of-drama Fantasy by music video and brief movie director Kukla, in addition to drama Olivia by Sofía Petersen.
In the meantime, a few of this season’s movie pageant favorites and classics will display screen in Locarno’s most important Piazza Grande part, happening in town’s most important sq. arrange with 8,000 seats. Movies that may be seen there embrace Jafar Panahi‘s Cannes 2025 winner and Testa O Croce? (Heads or Tails?) by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, that includes John C. Reilly as Buffalo Invoice.
General, the fest will display screen 221 movies, together with 99 world premieres. “The movies of the 78th version symbolize what’s alive, mandatory, and daring in up to date cinema as we speak,” Locarno’s creative director Giona A. Nazzaro stated. “A cinema fully within the current tense, devoid of any nostalgia and projected ahead in the direction of an open, dynamic, inclusive future that’s to be imagined collectively, as soon as once more. A playful and harmful cinema that takes many dangers, but in addition a cinema that doesn’t overlook to snort and smile, and to query historical past in all its points.”
In a press equipment for the lineup announcement, Nazarro wrote: “Let’s regain the world one movie at a time.” He added: “Constructing this system of the Locarno Movie Competition means participating with the dwelling matter of up to date cinema. A cinema that unfolds whereas the world is present process violent upheavals, whereas we witness – in actual time – horrors that we had solely examine in historical past books or studied in archival footage. The query is easy, and brutal in its inevitability: what’s the place of cinema when the proliferation of photographs is unstoppable and steady?”
His reply: “We regain the world (and maybe peace) one movie at a time. … The cinema that presents itself on the crossroads with historical past for the 78th version of the pageant is a cinema that, on the one hand, doesn’t flip its gaze away from actuality, and, on the opposite, explores the nonetheless doable types of the picture with out forgetting to smile on the absurdities of our lives. A cinema that’s playful, takes dangers, desires, and provokes; a cinema that stubbornly stays on the planet.”
Radu Jude
Courtesy of Berlin Movie Competition
Jackie Chan will likely be honored with a lifetime achievement award at Locarno subsequent month, Emma Thompson will get the Leopard Membership Award, and Lucy Liu will obtain a profession honor.
Take a look at the Locarno movie pageant’s lineup for its most important characteristic competitors and different key sections unveiled on Tuesday under:
Concorso Internazionale Program (competitors lineup)
As Estações (The Seasons) by Maureen Fazendeiro – Portugal, France, Spain,
Austria – 2025
World premiere
Bathroom Neće Pomoći (God Will Not Assist) by Hana Jušić – Croatia, Italy, Romania,
Greece, France, Slovenia – 2025
World premiere
Donkey Days by Rosanne Pel – Netherlands, Germany – 2025
World premiere
Dracula by Radu Jude – Romania, Austria, Luxembourg – 2025
World premiere
Dry Leaf by Alexandre Koberidze – Germany, Georgia – 2025
World premiere
Le Bambine (Mosquitoes) by Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani – Italy, Switzerland,
France – 2025
World premiere
Le Lac by Fabrice Aragno – Switzerland – 2025
World premiere
Linije Želje (Want Traces) by Dane Komljen – Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Netherlands, Croatia, Germany – 2025
World premiere
Mare’s Nest by Ben Rivers – United Kingdom, France, Canada – 2025
World premiere
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due by Abdellatif Kechiche – France – 2025
World premiere
Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) by Julian Radlmaier –
Germany – 2025
World premiere
Solomamma by Janicke Askevold – Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland –
2025
World premiere
Sorella Di Clausura by Ivana Mladenović – Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain – 2025
World premiere
Tabi to Hibi (Two Seasons, Two Strangers) by Sho Miyake – Japan – 2025
World premiere
Tales of the Wounded Land by Abbas Fahdel – Lebanon – 2025
World premiere
White Snail by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter – Austria, Germany – 2025
World premiere
With Hasan in Gaza by Kamal Aljafari – Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar – 2025
World premiere
Fuori Concorso Program (out-of-competition lineup)
Bobò by Pippo Delbono – Italy – 2025
World premiere
Deathstalker by Steven Kostanski – Canada – 2025
World premiere
E by Anna Eriksson – Finland – 2025
World premiere
Exile by Mehdi Hmili – Tunisia, Luxembourg, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia – 2025
World premiere
I Reside Right here Now by Julie Pacino – USA – 2025
European premiere
Il Vangelo die Giuda (Judas’ Gospel) by Giulio Base – Italy, Poland – 2025
World premiere
Hold Quiet by Vincent Grashaw – USA – 2025
World premiere
Kerouac’s highway: the beat of a nation by Ebs Burnough – United Kingdom, USA
– 2025
Worldwide premiere
Le Chantier by Jean-Stéphane Bron – France, Switzerland – 2025
World premiere
Legend of the Joyful Employee by Duwayne Dunham – USA – 2025
World premiere
Nova ’78 by Aaron Brookner, Rodrigo Areias – United Kingdom, Portugal – 2025
World premiere
Silence by Eduardo Casanova – Spain – 2025
World premiere
Some Notes on the Present State of affairs by Eran Kolirin – Israel – 2025
World premiere
The Deal by Jean-Stéphane Bron – Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium –
2025
World premiere
Episodes 3-6
Concorso Cineasti Del Presente Program
Affection Affection by Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray – France – 2025
World premiere
Balearic by Ion de Sosa – Spain, France – 2025
World premiere
Turning into by Zhannat Alshanova – France, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Lithuania,
Sweden – 2025
World premiere
Blue Heron by Sophy Romvari – Canada, Hungary – 2025
World premiere
Don’t Let the Solar by Jacqueline Zünd – Switzerland, Italy – 2025
World premiere
Fantasy by Kukla – Slovenia, North Macedonia – 2025
World premiere
Folichonneries (Follies) by Eric Okay. Boulianne – Canada – 2025
World premiere
Gioia Mia (Sweetheart) by Margherita Spampinato – Italy – 2025
World premiere
Hijo Mayor by Cecilia Kang – Argentina, France – 2025
World premiere
Nu Mă Lăsa Să Mor (Don’t Let Me Die) by Andrei Epure – Romania, Bulgaria,
France – 2025
World premiere
Olivia by Sofía Petersen – Argentina, United Kingdom, Spain – 2025
World premiere
The Fin by Park Syeyoung – South Korea, Germany, Qatar – 2025
World premiere
The Plant From the Canaries by Ruan Lan-Xi – Germany – 2025
World premiere
Tóc, Giấy Và Nước… (Hair, Paper, Water…) by Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý –
Belgium, France, Vietnam – 2025
World premiere
Un Balcon À Limoges (A Balcony in Limoges) by Jérôme Reybaud – France –
2025
World premiere
Piazza Grande Program
Le Pays D’arto (Within the Land of Arto) by Tamara Stepanyan
France, Armenia – 2025
World premiere
The Birthday Occasion by Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Greece, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom – 2025
World premiere
The Lifeless of Winter by Brian Kirk
USA, Germany – 2025
World premiere
Collectively by Michael Shanks
Australia, USA – 2025
Swiss premiere
Affeksjonsverdi (Sentimental Worth) by Joachim Trier
Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden – 2025
Swiss premiere
Police Story by Jackie Chan
Hong Kong – 1985
Testa O Croce? (Heads or Tails?) by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Italy, USA – 2025
Swiss premiere
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom, USA – 1980
The Deal by Jean-Stéphane Bron
Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium – 2025
Swiss premiere
Episodes 1&2
Irkalla Hulm Jijiljamish (Irkala – Gilgamesh’s Dream) by Mohamed
Jabarah Al-Daradji
Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, France, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia – 2025
World premiere
La Petite Dernière by Hafsia Herzi
France, Germany – 2025
Swiss premiere
Rosemead by Eric Lin
USA – 2025
Worldwide premiere
Un Easy Accident (It Was Simply an Accident) by Jafar Panahi
Iran, France, Luxembourg – 2025
Swiss premiere
Kiss of the Spider Girl by Invoice Condon
USA, Uruguay – 2025
Worldwide premiere