LOCARNO, Switzerland — Unspooling in sweltering humidity, Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-Summer movie event, sometimes dazzled, led by an ebullient Emma Thompson. More than anything else, in industry terms,...

Swiss filmmaker Fabrice Aragno (“Dimanche”) who served as Jean-Luc Godard’s multi-faceted collaborator and creative confidant for the better part of two decades, heads to Locarno for the world premiere of his...

A unified post-war Korea where the sea and the sky are enveloped in poignant red is the main stage of Syeyoung Park’s “The Fin,” his follow-up to debut “The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra” which...

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Anna Alarcón, co-star of Liliana Torres’ South by Southwest winner “Mamífera” is attached to take the lead in Torres’ follow-up “Climacteric,” which is being brought onto the market...

Paris-based MPM Premium has acquired world sales rights to hyperrealistic drama “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream,” by Iraqi director-producer Mohamed Al-Daradji (“Son of Babylon”), ahead of the film’s world premiere at the current...

For its 31tst edition, New Nordic Films, the Norwegian International Film Festival’s industry confab, will be hitting new heights with a stronger than ever lineup of projects and completed titles, to be...

Documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd’s first fiction feature “Don’t Let the Sun”– set to premiere at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival – portrays a world of stifling heat where human contact is hard...

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Launched 2015, Match Me! is now a firmly established festival fixture, an informal networking platform for young producers with strong usually but not entirely auteurist visions looking for international co-production.  ...