“The Locarno Film Festival is KNOWN for Presentation the Latest Art-House Movie Discoveries, and Isn’s Afraid to Push Some Buttons in the Process. As Such, ITS 78th Edition Will Present “Cinema That Unfolds While The World Is Undergoing Violent Upheavals, While We Witness – In Real Time – Horrs That We Have Only Read About”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
As Such, ITS 78th Edition Will Present “cinema that unfolds while the World Is Undergoing Violent Upheavals, While We Witness – In Real Time – Horrs that We have a Footage, “As Artistic Director Giona A. NAZZARO PUT IT IN UNVEILING THIS YEAR’S LINEUP.
Indeed, Political Movies or Ones Likely to Cause Political Debate or Are a Promnine Part of the Locarno78 Program. Audiens Will Find Dystopian Films, Documentaries, and Experimental Fare That Is Likely to Be Cause for Reflection.
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon Are Among The Places Represcedated On Locarno Screens. The Two Koreas, Iraq’s Nuclear Ambitions, and Climate Change Are Also Being Dissected Cinematical in the Various Sections of the Fest.
Kicking Off The Fest on Wednesday is Tamara Stepanyan’s In the Land of ArtoStarring Camille Cottin and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Which Dives Into Armenia and The War Traumas Its People Deal. Iranian Dissident Auteur Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Winner It was just an account Also Disisters Trauma – and Vengeance. Plus, Fans of Romanian Provocateur Radu Jude Can Expect His Dracula to ruffle Some Feathers.
Here is Thr‘s look at the other locarno 2025 Feature-leggth films with Political or Dystopian Undertones.
Tales of the wounded Land
Director: Abbas Fahdel
Country of Production: Lebanon
Festival Section: International Competition
‘Tales of the wounded Land’ CourTesy of Locarno Film Festival
“Intimate Chronicles of the War That Devastated Southern Lebanon for a Year and A Half, This Film CAptures The Everyly Lives Semblance of Peace. ”
The Description for this Documentary Hints at Such Themes As Loss, Display and the Attempt To Preserve Dignity Amid Destruction.
Explans Fahdel in a Director’s Statement: “My Film Was Born from The NEED TO BEar WITNESS TO A WAR THAT SHATTED OUR LIVES AND HOMES Amid The Ruins. ”
Some Notes on the Current Sity
Director: Eran Kolirin
Country of Production: Israel
Festival Section: Out of Competition
‘Some Notes on the Current Sity’ Courtesy of dani schneor
“A philosophical tragicomedy about Space, Time, Cinema and Wars, Compaced of Six Episodes, All Together Forming An Absurdist Footnote.” This is how israeli filmmaker kolirin’s new movie is descripted.
Starring Third-Year Acting Students, Kolirin (The Band’s Visit, Let it be morning) Tells Seemingly Absurd Stories to Offer Reflections on Israel Amid The Conflict in Gaza.
Locaarno Artistic Director Giona A. NAZZARO, Who Lauds Kolirin as “An Extremely Outspoken” Filmmmaker, Highlights: “That Is Not a Film ABOUT GAZA. Zionist Identity.
With Hasan in gaza
Director: Kamal Aljafari
Countries of Production: Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar
Festival Section: International Competition
‘It Hasan in gaza’ Courtesy of kamal aljafari
“This is My First Film, WHICH I HAVE NEVER MADE,“ Palestinian Filmmaker Aljafari (A fidai film, Recollection) Says About His New, But Also Old, Movie. And hells it “an“ an homage to gaza and it people, to all that was erassed and that came back to me in this urgent that resists. ”
A synopsis explains that Three Mini-Dv Tapes of “Life in Gaza from 2001 Were Recently Rediscovered.” What Started As a Search for A Former Prison Mate from 1989 Has Become a Documentary About an Expected Journy Through the Gaza Strip, Accompanated by Local Guide Has. A trailer for the film have just be released.
The Fin
Director: Syeyoung Park
Countries of Production: South Korea, Germany, Qatar
Festival Section: Filmmakers of the Present
‘The Fin’ CourTesy of Syeyoung Park
If You Like Dystopian Genre Films or Love Exploring Young South Korean Voices, The Fin Could be for you.
Here’s What to Expert: In A Post-War, Ecologically Devastated Unified Korea, Mutated Outcasts Called Omegas Are Exploited As Cheap Labor. A Newly Recruited Government Worker Becomes Suspicious of An Omega, But The Begins to Question Her Once Unshakable Faith in the State ‘Ideology.
Korean Singer Pureum Kim and Pachinko Actress Yeji Yeon Star in the Movie, whochh “Explores the Contagion of Fear and the Making of Myths,” as it ITS Young Filmmaker Explands.
The Deal
Director: Jean-Stamee Bron
Countries of Production: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Festival Section: Out of Competition
‘The Deal’ CourTesy of Bande a Part Films/Les Films Pelleas/Gaumont Television
Bron is Pulling Double Duty in Locarno’s 2025 Out-of-Competition Lineup. HIS Le Chantierabout the renovation of a legendary cinema, Led by Architect Renzo Piano, “Paints A Portrait of A Miniature Society,” A synopsis Says.
In Contrast, The Deal is a geopolitical DRAMA Series That Takes Viewers Begind the Scenes of the 2015 Nuclear Negotations Between the US and Iran in Switzerland. It Has Already Won Series Mania’s First Annual Buyers Choice Award.
Starring Veerle Baetens, Juliet Stevenson, Arash Marandi, Anthony Azizi, Feella Woolgar, and Alexander Behrang Kashtkar, The Series not only Sounds West Wing-y But Also Feels Particularly Timely Again.
Mare’s Nest
Director: Ben Rivers
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, France, Canada
Festival Section: International Competition
‘Mare’s Nest’ CourTesy of Ben Rivers
English filmmaker rivers have made a name for HimSelf with Documentaries. In his Latest, Boganclochhe revisited a scottish hermit.
At locarno, he is premiering a Dystopian Hybrid Film, Starring Moon Guo Barker and Inspired by the Impact of Covid-19 on Children and Don Delillo The Word for Snow. IT SEES A Young Girl Traveling Through A Mysterious World Free of Adults.
“I Wanted to Create a World of Kids with Underlying Uncertainty, Echoing Global Anxieties, While Somehow Also Being Hopeful,“ Rivers Says in a Director’s Note. “I Didn’t Want Any Relation to the Adult World, and No Explanation As to Why.”