Nine films will animate the Locarno program in Milan, which will be presented in original language and Italian subtitles at the Cinema Arlecchino. Giona A. An important story, which this year is enriched by a varied and daring program, as is the tradition of our Festival.
Young authors who, with a lucid gaze, question the present, searching for new forms of life. The film also won the Swatch First Feature Award. French filmmaker Virgil Vernier will meet the audience at the screening of his ,,, Cent mille milliards , a story of dreams, hopes and fears of various sex workers. Nazzaro will also. Three further titles come from the Concorso Cineasti del Presente. Director Adele Tulli - who returns behind the camera after Normal - will introduce her REAL , which reflects on humanity in the digital age, to the Milan audience.
The review will also include the screening of Passo a due , a collection of short films by six young directors - including the Milanese Francesco Manzato -, who will be present in the auditorium together with the actors some of them grew up in Milan, such as Diego Benzoni, Anna Lazzeri, Maria Caggianelli Villani. The programme is part of the Cinema on the Docks project, a creative hub on the Martesana, in the Morando Morandini Library, which from October will be populated by young filmmakers and audiovisual professionals, some of whom will be involved in meetings and mentoring with residents.
Italian Premiere. Locarno Film Festival - Special Event. In a luxury hotel, couples meet, clash, play and suffer. An analysis of power relations in the contemporary world made possible thanks to the special location of Locarno's Hotel Belvedere. Six short films made under the supervision of director Alice Diop by young filmmakers who staged stories focusing on the direction of six actors, chosen through a common casting process. Locarno Film Festival β Concorso Internazionale.
Dreaming of escaping from the desolation of the industrial city where they were born, the two year-old girls Marija and Kristina forge a unique bond in the local school for models, where the promise of a better life leads the girls to push their bodies into increasingly extreme situations. A dazzling and offbeat coming-of-age story, between the transgressive candour of an early Harmony Korine and the desolation of an East that dreams of European prosperity.
