In Locarno, Switzerland, there very close to France, a much smaller festival has been celebrated since 1946 than Cannes , but no less interesting for that: the Locarno Film Festival.
With the beautiful Swiss landscape in the background, the festival brings together much of the best of world cinema and among its attractions, offers every year open-air screenings, programmed with a giant screen in Piazza Grande. This year's edition will have a large South American presence, with representatives from Argentina (The tango singer, de Diego Martinez Vignatti; y The invention of meat, Santiago loza) and Brazil (You Famous And You Duendes Da Morte, de Smyr Filho) in official competition.
The contest will take place between next August 5 and 15, and it will be the 62nd edition from the prestigious Swiss festival. You can enjoy the latest productions of directors such as Eugene Green, Masahiro Kobayashi, Amos Gitaï, Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Nick Cassavetes and Byambasuren Davaa.
The complete schedule, below:
Special functions in Piazza Grande
-500 Days Of Summer, Dir: Marc Webb (USA), opening film
-The Two Horses of Genghis Khan / Chingisiyn Hoyor Zagal, Dir: Byambasuren Davaa (Germany), closing film
-Blue Sofa (short), Dir: Giuseppe Baresi (Italy)
-Giulias Verschwinden, Dir: Christoph Schaub (Switzerland)
-La Guerre Des Fils De La Lumiere Against Les Fils De Tenebres, Dir: Amos Gitaï (France)
-The Valley / La Valle Delle Ombre, Dir: Mihály Györik (Switzerland / Italy / Hungary)
-Les Derniers Jours De Monde, Dir: Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (France / Spain / Taiwan)
-Les Yeux De Simone (short), Dir: Jean Louise Porchet (Switzerland / France)
-My Sisters Keeper, Dir: Nick Cassavetes (USA)
-Petit Indi, Dir: Marc Recha (Spain / France)
-Pom Poko, Dir: Isao Takahata (Japan)
-Redline, Dir: Takeshi Koike (Japan)
-Same Same But Different, Dir: Detlev Buck (Germany)
-Sounds and Silence, Dir: Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer (Switzerland)
-Unter Bauern - Retter in Der Nacht, Dir: Ludi Boeken (Germany / France)
Piazza Grande - Manga Night
-Mobile Suit Gundam, Dir Ryoji Fujiwara and Yoshiyuki Tomino
-La Maison en Petits Cubes, Dir: Kunio Kato
-First Squad: The Moment Of Truth, Dir: Yoshiharu Asino, Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov (Canada / Russia / Germany)
International competition
-A Portuguese Religious, Dir: Eugene Green (Portugal / France)
-Akadimia Platonos, Dir: Filippos Tsitos (Greece / Germany)
-Au Voleur, Dir: Sarah Leonor (France)
-Buben Baraban, Dir: Aleksei Mizgiryov (Russia)
-Complices, Dir: Frédéric Mermoud (France / Switzerland)
-Frontier Blues, Dir: Babak Jalali (Iran / Great Britain / Italy)
-The tango singer, Dir: Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium / Argentina)
-La Donation, Dir: Bernard Émond (Canada)
-The invention of meat, Dir: Santiago Loza (Argentina)
-L'Insurgee, Dir: Laurent Perreau (France)
-Nothing Personal, Dir: Urszula Antoniak (Holland / Ireland)
-Os Famosos E Os Duendes Da Morte, Dir: Esmir Filho (Brazil / France)
-She, A Chinese. Dir: Xiaolu Guo (Great Britain / France / Germany)
-Shirley Adams, Dir: Oliver Hermanus (South Africa / USA)
-Summer Wars, Dir: Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)
-The Search, Dir: Pema Tseden (China)
-Wakarana, Dir: Masahiro Kobayashi (Japan)
Out of competition
-La Paura, Dir: Pippo Delbono (France)
Film-makers of the Present Competition
-Castro, Dir: Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina)
-Halsningar Fran Skogen, Dir: Mikel Cee Karlsson (Sweden)
-Ivul, Dir: Andrew Kotting (France / Switzerland)
-Kærlighedens Krigere, Dir: Simon Staho (Denmark)
-Koprudekiler, Dir: Asli Ozge (Germany / Turkey / Holland)
-La Reine Des Pommes, Dir: Valérie Donzelli (France)
-Mirna, Dir: Corso Salani (Italy)
-Musashi: The Dream Of The Last Samurai, Dir: Mizuho Nishikubo (Japan)
-Nikotoko Tou, Dir: Takuya Dairiki and Takashi Miura (Japan)
-October Country, Dir: Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (USA)
-Piombo Fuso, Dir Stefano Savona (Italy)
-SognoIl Mondo Il Venerdì, Dir: Pasquale Marrazzo (Italy)
-The Anchorage, Dir: CW Winter and Anders Edstrom (USA / Sweden)
-The Marsdreamers, Dir: Richard Dindo (Switzerland / France)
-Everyone lies, Dir: Matías Piñeiro (Argentina)
-Un Transport En Commun, Dir: Dyana Gaye (France)