Motherhood, Colonialism, a Keyboard Prodigy and a Surrealist Love Story: Locarno Unveils Open Doors Africa Projects
The Swiss festival’s co-production and talent development program gears up for its second edition with an Africa focus, promising "a bold and diverse slate of voices from across the African continent."
Isabella Rossellini to Receive Locarno Excellence Award as Swiss Festival Lauds the Icon as “Joyfully Unconventional, Consistently Brilliant”
"Virtually synonymous with artistic daring and technical excellence, Rossellini has long fused the technical brilliance of Hollywood with the European spirit of artistic fearlessness."
Darren Aronofsky to Receive Locarno Film Festival’s Honorary Leopard
”By turns provocative, spiritual, and formally daring, his films have for more than a quarter century probed the outer limits of faith, desire, and obsession.”
Locarno Film Festival 2026 Poster Features Cindy Sherman’s “Ecstatic Gaze”
“Sherman’s work asserts the inalienable right to self-expression and to the authorship of one’s own narratives in a moment in which alternative realities have increasingly started to replace the truth.”
The Hollywood Reporter