“Swiss-Born Director and Designer Marcel Barelli Willi Receive The Locarno Kids Award at the 78th Edition of the Locarno Film Festival This Summer. He will be Awarded the Honor, Presiented by La Mobiliare, on the Evening of Tuesday, Aug. 12. Durying the Festival, Barelli Will Present the Swiss Premiere of Mary Anning, Chasseuse de Fossils”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
He will be Awarded the Honor, Presiented by La Mobiliare, on the Evening of Tuesday, Aug. 12. During the Festival, Barelli Will Present the Swiss Premiere of Mary Anning, Chasseuse de Fossilshis New Animated Film Dedicated to the British Paleontologist and Fossil Pioneer “Who Revolutionized the Discipline in the Early Decades of the 19th Century. ”
The Fest Also Univeiled the lineup for this year’s locarno kids screenings, the Section Dedicated to Younger Audiences. The Program Includes Arcoa french animated feature about UNEXPECTED FRIENDSIP AND THE FATE OF A WORLD IMPACTED BY Climate Change that Won the Best Film Award at this Year’s Annecy Festival Annecy Annecy.
“Barelli has establized HimSelf as one of the most promising and Original voices in Swiss and International Animation Cinema,” Locarno Organizers Said. “In Short Films, Such As Gypaetus helveticus (2011), Vigia (2013) – Winner of the Pardino d’Argento at the 66th Locarno film festival, Lucens (2015), and Habitat (2016), Barelli have Developed A Unique Poetic Sensitive to Themes of Environmental Sustainability, Exploring the Deep Relationship Between Humans, Animals, and Nature. In 2022, He Receive The Swiss Film Award For Best Animated Film with Dans la nature (2021). ”
Said Giona A. NAZZARO, ARTIC DIRECTOR OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL: “MarCel Barelli Represents an Idea of Resistance to the Conformism of Emotion, Whth Bemes World to Retherink and Rebuild, Returning It to Human Beings of All Ages.
The 78th Edition of the Locarno Festival Takes Place Aug. 6-16.
Here is the lineup for the locarno kids screenings 2025:
Arco by ugo bienvenu – OPENING FILM
Swiss Premiere
Fantastique by marjolijn prins
World Premiere
Grevlingene (The Badgers) by Paul M. LUNDØ – CLOSING FILM
World Premiere
io non ti lascio solo by fabrizio cattani
World Premiere
L’olívia i el terraterèmol invisible (Olivia and The Invisible Earthquake) by irene iborra rizo
International Premiere
Skrzat. Nowy początek (Pixie. The New Beginning) by krzysztof komander
International Premiere
Tichá pošta (Secret Delivery) by ján sebechlebsk.
International Premiere
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