“Ready for a bit of swiss bliss on the big screen? The 78th Edition of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival Has You Covered, Once Again ShowCASING A RANGE OF SWISS MOVIES WORTH AUDIENCES ‘Attention. Taking Place Aug. 6-16, Various Section at the Fest Will Offer Up Homemade Fare, In Addition To Its Broad Lineup of World and”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Taking Place Aug. 6-16, Various Section at the Fest Will Offer Up Homemade Fare, In Addition To Its Broad Lineup of World and Other Premieres from Armund The World. And of Course, The Popular “Panorama Suisse” Section Will The Spotlight On “Swiss Films That Have Enjoyed Success At Festivals, Found An Audence in Cinema Organizers Highlight. “FILM LOVERS FROM ALL OVER The World Can Thus Find a Taste of Contemporary Swiss Cinema.”
WILL LOCARNO SERVE UP more SWISS DELICACies than You Can Can Likely Catch, Even If Bern-Ing The Midnight Oil? ALPS-SOLUTELY!
But If You Want To Avoid Having Swiss Cheese-Like Holes in Your Locarno Schedule, Check Out Thr‘S Look at 11 Select Swiss Treats Screening at Locarno78 Below.
Mosquitoes (le Bambine)
Directors: Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani
Countries of Production: Italy, Switzerland, France
Festival Section: International Competition
‘Mosquitoes’ CourTesy of Locarno Film Festival
Looking for A Coming-of-Age Story That Sounds… Well, Really Different? Look no further than Mosquitoesor “The Little Girls” per italian Title, Inspired by the Filmmakers’ Childhood.
The Movie’s Cast Includes Mia Ferricelli, Agnese Scazza, Petra Scheggia, Clara Tramontano, Milutin Dapčević, Jessica Piccolo Valerani, Cristina Donadio, Annadio.
Audiences can expect a lot to happen. “1997. Eight-YEAR-OLD LINDA DRIFTS from HER Wealthy Grandmother’s Swiss Villa Her Carefree Mother, Eva. In Italy, They Meet Sisters Azzurra and Marta. A Chance Summer. To Protect Each Other, Their Youth, and Freedom, ”Reads a synopsis. “AROUND TheM SWIRL SELFISH PARARNTS CHASING FRAGILE DREAMS, GOSSIPING NEIGHBORS, AND A QUEER BABYSITTER TRYING TO FIND HIS PLACE IN A WORLD THAT DOESN’T WANT HIM EITHER.”
Le lac
Director: Fabrice Arabno
Country of Production: Switzerland
Festival Section: International Competition
‘Le lac’ CourTesy of Casa Azul Films
This Film, Starring Clotilde Courau and Bernard Stamm, Comes From Aragno, Who Have SO Far MOSTLY BEEN KNOWN FOR MAKING SHORT FILMS AND TV MOVIES.
Now Get Ready for a Very Swiss Tease for The Movie! “A Woman and A Man Throw Themselves Into A Sailing Race Lasting Several Days and Nights on a Large Lake. One wold like to be over, Yet One Cannot, One Misses Any Sign of Life, Yet. Tide, in the Blowing of the Wind, in the Drifting Clouds, in the Solital Cry of Birds. ” We’re intrigged!
Don’t let the sun
Director: Jacqueline Zünd
Countries of Production: Switzerland, Italy
Festival Section: Cinema of the Present
‘DON’T LET the SUN’ CourTesy of Lomotion
“The Heat Keeps Rising. People Grow Distant, in Curious Kinds of Solite. Starts to unravel. ”
SO reads a plot Summary for Documentary Maker Zünd’s Fiction Feature Debut, Inspired by Rent-a-Friend Agencies in Japan and Set in a Time of Rising Temperatures. The Result Is, So The Locarno Website, “A Delicate Drama About the Fragality of Human Relations.”
Written by Zünd and Arne Kohlweyer, The Film Stars Levan Gelbakhiani, Maria Pia Pia, Agnese Claisse, and Karidja Touré. Don’t let the sun – And don’t miss it!
Le Chantier
Director: Jean-Stamee Bron
Countries of Production: France, Switzerland
Festival Section: Out of Competition
‘Le chantier’ CourTesy of Les Films Pelleas
Documentary Maker Bron Is Pulling Double Duty in Locarno’s 2025 Out-of-Competition Lineup, Given That His Series The DealAbout the 2015 Nuclear Negotations Between the US and Iran in Switzerland, Also Screens in that Fest Section.
Le ChantierMeaning “The Construction Site” in French, Takes US Inside the Reconstruction of A Legendary Cinema Under the Direction of Architect Renzo Piano.
But a synopsis promises this special Specific Project to Also Tell A Larger Story Build Cinemas for the Next Century. Portrait of this Society at A Human Level. ”
Mary Anning
Director: Marcel Barelli
Countries of Production: Switzerland, Belgium
Festival Section: Locarno Kids Screenings
‘Mary Anning’ Courtesy of nadasdy film
English Fossil Collector and Paleontologist Mary Anning is the focus of this animated movie from Marcel Barelli, The Swiss-Born Director and Designer Wall Receive This
The Film Is Set in 1811, WHEN IS “An INCUISTIVA AND TENACIUS 12-YEAR-ELD GIRL” who “Spends Her Days Searching for Fossils,” Notes a Summary. “HER FATHER PASSED ON THIS PASSION TO HER, BUT HER LIFE SUDDENLY CHANNLES WHEN HE DISAPEARS, Leaving Begind A Mysterious Drawing and A Stugggling Family. Uncover the Secret of the Drawing.
Bagger Drama
Director: Piet Baumgartner
Country of Production: Switzerland
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
‘Bagger Drama’ CourTesy of Locarno Film Festival
Bettina Stucky, Phil Hayes, Vincent Furrer, Karin Pfammatter, and Maximilian Reichert Are Part of the Ensemble Cast of the Movie from Baumgartner (The Driven Onesseries Clash).
Of Course, Itells A Story About Diggers But Also Unearths Much More. “A Family Finds It Difficult to Talk About Feelings, Love or Intimacy,“ A Plot Description Says. “The Family Business Demands Their Full Attraction: Renting, Selling and Repaire Excavators. Everyone Has to Pitch in. When the Daughter Has A Fatal Acident Over The Company.
Frieda’s Case
Director: Maria Brendle
Countries of Production: Switzerland
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
‘Frieda’s Case’ CourTesy of Condor Films
A Historic Swiss Legal Case and Its Present-Day Is The Topic of German-Swiss Director Maria Brendle’s Debut Feature Frieda’s Case (Friedas Fall). The Murder Trial of Young Seamstress Frieda Keller May have a have taken place in St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1904. But It Is Also a Timely Global Story About Female Emancipation and EmPowerment.
“We Still Have To Deal with The Same or Similar Issues of the World,“ Brendle Told Thr Earlier this year about themes of the Film, which have been traveling the Festival Circuit, Including A Run at the Beijing International Film Festival.
The Ensemble Cast, Led by Julia Buchmann as Keller, Includes Stefan Merki, Rachel Braunschweig, Max Simonischek, and Marlene Tanczik. If You Like A Historical Drama With Present-Day Implications, DON’T LET Frieda’s Case Close with Catching It!
Immortals
Director: Maja tschumi
Countries of Production: Switzerland, Iraq
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
‘Immortals’ CourTesy of CineWorx
This One May Not Sound Like A Swiss Film, But It Is. Actually, It Is A Documentary Co-Production Between Switzerland and Iraq.
Check Out the synopsis: “Milo, A strong-WILLED FEMINIST, DISCOVers The Long-Sough Power to Wander AROUND FREREELY IN BAGDAD BY DRESSING IN HER BROTHERE. Realizes that his camera can the strongest of all weapons.
As Such, The Doc Gives Insight Into The Hopes and, Often Broken, Dreams of A New Generation That Has Grown Up with War Since The US-Led Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Wisdom of Happiness
Directors: Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Country of Production: Switzerland
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
‘Wisdom of Happiness’ Courtesy of das kollektiv
Remember How The Previous Titles Didn’t Seem Swiss at First? WELL, HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE, Namely a Documentary That Promises Nothing Short of A “Heart-To-Heart with The Dalai Lama.”
For Miller, The Topic May Feel More Zen Who Heavier Ones She Has Tackled in Such Previous Works as Her 2012 Forbidden voicesAbout Fearless Women Speaking Out in China, Cuba, and Iran As Past of SA Networked Generation of Modern Resistance Fighters, and Her 2018 Film #FEMALE PLEASUREDescribed as “a journey to discover the reminder obstacles that stand in the way of female sexuality in the 21st Century.”
A synopsis of Wisdom of Happiness Actual Reads Like The Kind of Treatment That Many in the World Could Use These Days. IT POMISES “A DEEPLY INTIMATE AND HIGHLY Cinematic Documentary Featuring the Dalai Lama, Who, At Nearly 90 Years of Age, Offers Practical Advice for Navigating The 21st Century And itCludes: “The Film CAPTures of the Dalai Lama Speaking Directly to Viewers, Creating A Sense of A Private Audence, and Shares His Timeless Wisdom on Achieving In. Feeling Better Already!?
Pictures in Mind (Bilder im kopf)
Director: Eleonora Camizzi
Country of Production: Switzerland
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
‘Bilder im kopf’ Courtesy of am limit
Picture this! In Eleonora Camizzi’s Directorial Debut, An Experimental Documentary, Daughter and Facher Meet in A White Room. SO FAR, SO… WHAT!?
Let’s Try this Another Way: “An innocent Conversation About a Deal with The Queen Reveals: The Apparent Emptines is a Taken UPKen Up By A Stigmatized Diagnosis and Decades of Silence “What begins as a questing about the past devlops in a sincere Dialogue in the Present.”
Late Shift (Heldin)
Director: Petra Volpe
Countries of Production: Switzerland, Germany
Festival Section: Panorama Suisse
Leonie benesch in ‘larate shift’ CourTesy of Zodiac Pictures
“Heroine” is the German-Language Title of the Latest Movie from Volpe (The Divine Order), Starring Leonie Benesch (The Teacher’s Lounge, Babylon Berlin). Fans May Well Use Word to Describe The Two Creative Forces of Nature Who Just Can’s to Stop Bringing to Life Characters That Grab You.
In this casse, benesch, who recently won the German Film Award, or Lola, for Her Supporting Actress Turn As A Translator in September 5Portrays a nurse Handling the Stressful Daily Routine on the Surgical Ward of A Hospital with Passion and Professionalism. “But WHEN IS A SHORTAGE OF STAFF ON A LATE SHIFT, HER WORK BECOMES A RACE AGAINST TIME,“ The Synopsis Warns.
WHEN THE FILM DEBUTED AT Berlin Earlier this Year, Thr‘S Review Lauded It As “A Taut and Sensitive Tribute to Working-Class Heroes,” Highlighting That The “Gripping Drama Revolves Arundnie LEONEIEEA