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Locarno 2021 Golden Leopard Winner The 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival came to a close over the weekend, with Indonesian film director Edwin scooping the Golden Leopard in the International Competition with Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. Elsewhere in the International Competition, the Golden Leopard…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first look at Luzifer, Peter Brunner's feature inspired by a true story of an exorcism. Dog Days filmmaker Ulrich Seidl produced the movie. Franz Rogowski and Susanne Jensen star in the pic, which follows Johannes, a man with the heart of a child who lives secluded in an Alpine hut with his…

EXCLUSIVE: With their action thriller Beckett set to land on Netflix on August 13, Deadline sat down with star John David Washington and director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino to chat about putting together the story of an American on the run amidst political unrest in Greece. Washington has had a remarkable 12 months…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage from Mad God, the experimental animation 30 years in the making from Phil Tippett, the Oscar winning VFX artist with credits including the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop. After embarking on the first steps of the film during a lull in his schedule after Robocop…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at footage from Heavens Above (Nebesa), Srdjan Dragojevic's dark comedy that will have its premiere in competition at the Locarno Film Festival this year. The pic gives an unconventional perspective on the transition period in a post-communist country, treating it as a turbulent shift…

Switzerland's Locarno Film festival has unveiled its line-up ahead of a physical 2021 edition running August 4-14. Scroll down for a list of titles. As previously announced, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino's Beckett, starring John David Washington and Alicia Vikander, will open the festival with its world premiere on…

Locarno Sets ‘Beckett’ As Opening Film Ferdinando Cito Filomarino's Beckett, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Alicia Vikander, will open the 74th edition of Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival on August 4. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film follows an American tourist vacationing in…

Indigenous Love Story Stellar Underway EXCLUSIVE: Principal photogprahy is underway on Stellar, Darlene Naponse's love story starring Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Braeden Clarke. The news coincides with National Indigenous Peoples Day. Based on the short story of the same name written by Naponse, the film follows two…

After yesterday's unveiling of the Venice line-up, the sales announcements have rolled in: Celluloid Dreams has boarded international sales on Sun Children, which screens in competition. The company previously repped director Majid Majidi's debut feature Baduk back in 1991. The new feature is the story of 12-year-old…

The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the film festival calendar. Cannes had to give up on its June-July dates last week and a plethora of smaller events have cancelled this spring and summer. Here’s an update on the status of five of the biggest remaining festivals on the schedule. It’s fair to say there…

Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of promotion agency German Films, have been officially confirmed as the new co-heads of the Berlinale to take over from Dieter Kosslick when his contract is up after the 2019 edition. Chatrian will serve as artistic director, handling film…

More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals have signed a petition calling on the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned Israel Film Focus, organised in partnership with the state-backed Israel Film Fund. Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sally El Hosaini as well as Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Eyal Sivan and Rachel…