WorldPingThomas Heise’s final film, “Übergang,” arrives at the Locarno Film Festival as both a portrait of one of Germany’s most influential documentary filmmakers and the completion of a project left unfinished by his death.
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Read the full report at VarietyIn a session with execs from mk2, Design Otherwise and Lucky Red, 'Ida' by Pawel Pawlikowski and Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight' were name-checked as powerful films that data or algorithms may not have picked.
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WorldPingArthouse movies are increasingly made for younger audiences who are replacing ageing stay-at-home baby boomers at Europe’s upscale cinema theaters. That impact is now working its way through new arthouse projects, seen at Locarno’s 2026 Match Me!
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WorldPing“Chapa 100,” the 2025 Atlas Workshops Development Award winner, now a potential highlight at Locarno’s Africa-focused strand Open Doors, has been boarded by Italy-based sales agent Luminalia.
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Beatrice Gibson's full-length feature debut, premiering in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present Competition, blends autofiction and poetry into what she calls "a love letter to friendships."…
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WorldPingSirimiri Films, founded by Estibaliz Urresola, director of Berlinale winner “20,000 Species of Bees,” is teaming with Lazona Zinema, the Basque division of Lazona (“Spanish Affair,” “Gigantes,” “No Rest for the Wicked”) to produce “La Koreana,” one o…
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