Swiss-born director and designer Marcel Barelli will obtain the Locarno Youngsters Award on the 78th version of the Locarno Movie Pageant this summer time.
He shall be awarded the respect, introduced by la Mobiliare, on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 12. In the course of the pageant, Barelli will current the Swiss premiere of Mary Anning, chasseuse de fossiles, his new animated movie devoted to the British paleontologist and fossil pioneer “who revolutionized the self-discipline within the early many years of the 19th century.”
The fest additionally unveiled the lineup for this 12 months’s Locarno Youngsters Screenings, the part devoted to youthful audiences. This system consists of Arco, a French animated characteristic about sudden friendship and the destiny of a world impacted by local weather change that gained the most effective movie award at this 12 months’s Annecy movie pageant and counts Natalie Portman amongst its producers.
“Barelli has established himself as one of the promising and authentic voices in Swiss and worldwide animation cinema,” Locarno organizers stated. “In brief movies, equivalent to Gypaetus helveticus (2011), Vigia (2013) – winner of the Pardino d’Argento on the 66th Locarno Movie Pageant, Lucens (2015), and Habitat (2016), Barelli has developed a singular poetic type delicate to themes of environmental sustainability, exploring the deep relationship between people, animals, and nature. In 2022, he acquired the Swiss Movie Award for greatest animated movie with Dans la nature (2021).”
Mentioned Giona A. Nazzaro, creative director of the Locarno Movie Pageant: “Marcel Barelli represents an thought of resistance to the conformism of feelings, which turns into a light-weight and dreamy trait to stipulate a world to rethink and rebuild, returning it to human beings of all ages. In accordance with Barelli, cinema and animation are manufactured from the identical materials as probably the most valuable and beneficiant desires.”
The 78th version of the Locarno pageant takes place Aug. 6-16.
Right here is the lineup for the Locarno Youngsters Screenings 2025:
Arco by Ugo Bienvenu – Opening Movie
Swiss Premiere
Fantastique by Marjolijn Prins
World Premiere
Grevlingene (The Badgers) by Paul M. Lundø – Closing Movie
World Premiere
io non ti lascio solo by Fabrizio Cattani
World Premiere
L’Olívia i el terratrèmol invisible (Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake) by Irene Iborra Rizo
Worldwide Premiere
Skrzat. Nowy początek (Pixie. The New Starting) by Krzysztof Komander
Worldwide Premiere
Tichá pošta (Secret Supply) by Ján Sebechlebský
Worldwide Premiere