Winners often incorporate African lore or magic realism or look to appeal to national as well as international audiences.

Sho Miyake's 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' 'White Snail,' 'Tales of the Wounded Land,' 'God Will Not Help' Triumph at Locarno ...

The Hong Kong and global film icon received an enthusiastic welcome as he was honored with a Career Leopard at the Swiss ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig director Mohammad Rasoulof was a surprise guest at this year's Locarno Film Festival and talked ...

The Piazza Grande often showcases more mainstream fare (horror film “Together,” starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco, plays ...

The two women brought much love to the Swiss town after Locarno's artistic director denounced "the intolerable destruction of ...

White Snail' by Elsa Kramer and Levin Peter won a special jury prize, Abbas Fahdel the director honor for 'Tales of the ...

Tabi to Hibi, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake, has won the Pardo d’Oro, the Locarno Film Festival’s ...

This evening’s Piazza Grande screening in Locarno was preceded by an impassioned and elaborate demonstration mounted by local ...

Unspooling in sweltering humidity, Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival, Europe's biggest mid-Summer movie event, sometimes ...

Creative director Giona A Nazzaro broke festival circuit ranks by explicitly condemning Israeli atrocities in Gaza ...

Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s ...