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2015 Locarno Film Festival Winners

2015 Locarno Film Festival Winners

International Competition Golden Leopard Right Now, Wrong Then – Director – Hong Sang-soo Special Jury Prize Tikkun– Director – Avishai Sivan Best Direction Cosmos – Director – Andrzej Zulawski Best Actress Happy Hour Tanaka Sachie, Kikuchi Hazuki, Mihara Maiko & Kawamura Rira Best Actor Right Now, Wrong Then Jung Jae-Young Special Mention Script for Happy […]

Locarno 15 – CHRIEG – Panorama Suisse

Festival Screening – August 15, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Auditorium FEVI The whole world is against Matteo. At least this is how the 15-year-old sees it. He has no friends and his parents seem to live on another planet. All his efforts to earn his father’s respect fail. One night, two men march Matteo […]

Locarno 15 – ABOVE AND BELOW – Panorama Suisse

Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Auditorium FEVI Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the […]

Locarno 15 – BROTHERS – Semaine de la Critique

First Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Teatro Kursaal Last Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at PalaVideo Brothers is the story of Mieczysław and Alfons Kułakowscy, two brothers sent to a Soviet gulag when they were children. They managed to escape and reach Alma Ata, where they […]

Locarno 15 – K2 TOUCHING THE SKY – Semaine de la Critique

First Festival Screening – August 7, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Teatro Kursaal Last Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at PalaVideo The children of acclaimed alpinists, who died on K2 in Karakorum Mountains, undertake an expedition to answer the question: what is the price of passion. In the summer of 1986, […]

Locarno 15 – THE UNTOUCHABLES – Histoire(s) du Cinema

Festival Screening – August 6, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at La Sala Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. Director – Brian De Palma –IMDB Please visit Locarno Film Festival to see the 2015 Program.

Locarno 15 – RICKI AND THE FLASH – Opening Ceremony

Festival Screening – August 5, 2015 @ 9:30 PM at Piazza Grande Meryl Streep takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer-gutarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in Ricki and the Flash. In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as […]

LA SAPIENZA Opens in Toronto July 24

Official Selection 2014 Locarno International Film Festival Official Selection 2014 Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection 2014 New York Film Festival “Eugène Green’s La Sapienza is art history with warmth and personality.” – A.V. Club TORONTO – La Sapienza is a love story that develops in parallel amid architecture, artistic inspiration and, of course, emotions. […]

TJFF 15 – TO LIFE / À la Vie

First Festival Screening – Friday, May 1 @ 1pm A tender and funny drama set in the sunny sixties about the reunion of Hélène, Lili and Rose, three Jewish survivors who haven’t seen each other since Auschwitz. They reconnect during a warm summer in a seaside town in the north of France. In telling his […]

LA SAPIENZA Opens at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas March 20

Eugène Green’s LA SAPIENZA was an official selection of ­both the 52nd New York Film Festival (NYFF) & Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and will have its U.S. theatrical premiere on March 20 at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in NY and be followed in select cities around the country.