Today, the Locarno Film Festival revealed the programme of its 76th edition (from 2 to 12 August) (read the news) which also includes the parallel sections.

The Cineasti del presente competition, a section dedicated to the discovery of the cinema of tomorrow (first and second features by young filmmakers) in which, as artistic director of the festival Giona A. Nazzaro has highlighted, “all the colours of the cinema are represented,” this year consists of 15 films (all in world premieres) among which many European productions and coproductions (10 out of 15). These include the German productions A Good Place [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Claudia Rorarius, which tells the story of an "almost" impossible love affair between a nurse and a quadriplegic; the Spanish films Negu hurbilak [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Colectivo Negu which tells the story of a refugee in a border village between ancestral myths and modern conflicts, and On the Go [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] by María Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro in which the filmmakers speak without taboos about motherhood (or non-motherhood); the first feature film Bitten [+lire aussi :
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interview : Romain de Saint-Blanquat
fiche film] by French director Romain de Saint-Blanquet, and the French co-productions Camping du lac [+lire aussi :
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interview : Éléonore Saintagnan
fiche film] (Belgium/France) by Eléonore Saintagnan, which portrays a filmmaker lacking inspiration confronted with her past, and Rivière [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Switzerland/France) by Hugues Hariche, about a girl's dream of becoming a professional hockey player. Also in the section, we find Of Living Without Illusion [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Bosnian director Una Gunjak, about a teenage girl struggling with the prejudices and rules of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rapture [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] by Indian director Dominic Sangma, a film about the apocalypse, fury and unconscious fears inherent in human beings.

Finally, the impressive and now legendary Piazza Grande (an immense open-air cinema that can accommodate up to 8,000 spectators each evening) will host 17 films this year (including 9 world premieres) of which 12 are European productions and coproductions. World premieres will include the French film Antarctica Calling by Luc Jacquet, about his immeasurable love for the Antarctic, the short film Dammi by Yann Mounir Demange ('71 [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Yann Demange
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fiche film] by Victoria Musiedlak, the Italian project The Beautiful Summer [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Laura Luchetti, based on the novel of the same name by Cesare Pavese in which a young girl experiences the artistic environments of Turin at the dawn of the Second World War, and I Am Not What I Am - The Tragedy of Othello by W. Shakespeare [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] by Edoardo Leo, and the co-productions Guardians of the Formula [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dragan Bjelogrlić
fiche film] by Serbian director Dragan Bjelogrlić, which tells an extraordinary story about the world's first case of bone marrow transplantation and Tito's secret atomic bomb project, Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel's The Falling Star [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], in which a promising high school girl struggles to integrate the Polytechnic but also to change her social situation.

The selected films:

Cineasti del presente

Camping du lac [+lire aussi :
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interview : Éléonore Saintagnan
fiche film] - Eléonore Saintagnan (Belgium/France)
A Good Place [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Katharina Huber (Germany)
Excursion [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Una Gunjak (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia/Serbia/France/Norway/Qatar)
Family Portrait - Lucy Kerr (United States)
Dreaming & Dying - Nelson Yeo (Singapore/Indonesia)
Bitten [+lire aussi :
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interview : Romain de Saint-Blanquat
fiche film] - Romain de Saint-Blanquat (France)
Negu hurbilak [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Colectivo Negu (Spain)
On the Go [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro (Spain)
Rapture [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Dominic Sangma (India/China/Switzerland/Netherlands/Qatar)
Rivière [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Hugues Hariche (Switzerland/France)
Todos los incendios – Mauricio Calderón Rico (Mexico)
Touched [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Claudia Rorarius (Germany)
Of Living Without Illusion [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Katharina Lüdin (Germany/Switzerland)
Whispers of Fire & Water - Lubdhak Chatterjee (India)
West Border - Yan Luo (China)

Piazza Grande

Anatomy of a Fall [+lire aussi :
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interview : Justine Triet
fiche film] - Justine Triet (France)
Antarctica Calling [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Luc Jacquet (France)
Guardians of the Formula [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dragan Bjelogrlić
fiche film] - Dragan Bjelogrlić (Serbia/Slovenia/Montenegro/North Macedonia)
Dammi - Yann Mounir Demange (France) (short film)
Falling Stars - Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki (United States)
The Falling Star [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel (France/Belgium)
The Beautiful Summer [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Laura Luchetti (Italy)
La città delle donne - Federico Fellini (Italy/France) (1980)
La paloma - Daniel Schmid (Switzerland/France) (1974)
The Path of Excellence [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Frédéric Mermoud (France/Switzerland)
Smugglers - Ryoo Seung-wan (South Korea)
I Am Not What I Am - The Tragedy of Othello by W. Shakespeare [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] - Edoardo Leo (Italy)
First Case [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Victoria Musiedlak (France)
Shayda - Noora Niasari (Australia)
The Old Oak [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
fiche film] - Ken Loach (United Kingdom/France/Belgium)
Theater Camp - Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman (United States)