2019 Locarno Film Festival: Fabrice du Welz, Donzelli, Fukada, Ameur-Zaïmeche & Pedro Costa Selected
The first edition of the Locarno Film Festival under Lili Hinstin’s leadership will include the world premiere to Fabrice du Welz’s Adoration and Valérie Donzelli’s Notre Dame while the likes of Rúnar Rúnarsson, Ulrich Köhler (co-directed feature), Koji Fukada, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche and Pedro Costa will be presented in the International Competition. Several big auteurs in Jean-Luc Godard, José Luis Guerin and Yorgos Lanthimos are also presenting their short films. Here is the major section line-ups for next month’s fest. Look for a handful of these to debut at TIFF.
Piazza Grande
7500 (Ger/Aus), dir. Patrick Vollrath, world premiere,
Adoration (Bel/Fra), dir. Fabrice du Welz, world premiere
Camille (Fra), dir. Boris Lojkine, world premiere
Days Of The Bagnold Summer (UK), dir. Simon Bird, world premiere, first feature
The Girl With The Bracelet (Fra/Bel), dir. Stéphane Demoustier, world premiere
If Only (Magari) (Ita/Fra), dir. Ginevra Elkann, world premiere, first feature, OPENING FILM
Instinct (Neth), dir. Halina Reijn, world premiere, first feature
Lettre à freddy buache (Fra), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
New Acid (Fra/Swi), dir. Basim Magdy, world premiere
Notre Dame (Fra/Bel), dir. Valérie Donzelli, world premiere
Once Upon A time… In Hollywood (USA), dir. Quentin Tarantino
To the Ends Of The Earth (Jap/Uzb/Qat), dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, international premiere, CLOSING FILM
Piazza Grande, Crazy Midnight
Cecil B. Demented (USA/Fra), dir. John Waters
Coffy (USA), dir. Jack Hill
Vagenda Stories (Die Fruchtbaren Jahre Sind Vorbei) (Swi), dir. Natascha Beller, world premiere, first feature
Diego Maradona (UK), dir. Asif Kapadia
Greener Grass (USA), Jocelyn DeBoer, dir. Dawn Luebbe, international premiere, first feature
Memories Of Murder (Kor), dir. Bong Joon-ho
The Nest (Ita), dir. Roberto De Feo, world premiere, first feature
International Competition
The Fever (A Febre) (Bra/Fra/Ger), dir. Maya Da-Rin, world premiere
Echo (Bergmál) (Ice/Fra/Swi), dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, world premiere
Cat In The Wall (Bul/UK/Fra), dir. Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova, world premiere
Das Freiwillige Jahr (Ger), dir. Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler, world premiere
During Revolution (Fi Al-Thawra) (Syr/Swe), dir. Maya Khoury, world premiere, first feature
A Girl Missing (Yokogao) (Jap/Fra), dir. Koji Fukada, international premiere
Height Of The Wave (Kor), dir. Park Jung-bum, international premiere
Hogar (Ita/Arg), dir. Maura Delpero, world premiere
Isadora’s Children (Les Enfants d’Isadora) (Fra/Kor), dir. Damien Manivel, world premiere
The Last Black Man In San Francisco (USA), dir. Joe Talbot, international premiere, first feature
Longa Noite (Spa), dir. Eloy Enciso, world premiere
O Fim Do Mundo (Swi), dir. Basil Da Cunha, world premiere
The Science Of Fictions (Hiruk-Pikuk Si Al-Kisah) (Ind/Mal/Fra), dir. Yosep Anggi Noen, world premiere
Technoboss (Por/Fra), dir. João Nicolau, world premiere
Terminal Sud (Fra), dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, world premiere
Twelve Thousand (Douze Mille) (Fra), dir. Nadège Trebal, world premiere
Vitalina Varela (Por), dir. Pedro Costa, world premiere
Filmmakers of the Present
143 Rue du Désert – Hassan Ferhani (Algeria/France/Qatar)
Nafi’s Father – Mamadou Dia (Senegal)
Ham On Rye – Tyler Taormina (US)
Here For Life – Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson (UK)
Ivana the Terrible – Ivana Mladenović (Romania/Serbia)
L’apprendistato – Davide Maldi (Italy)
L’Île aux oiseaux – Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa (Switzerland)
La paloma y el lobo – Carlos Lenin (Mexico)
The Cold Raising the Cold – Rong Guang Rong (Italy)
Love Me Tender – Klaudia Reynicke (Switerland)
Mariam – Sharipa Urazbayeva (Kazakstan)
Merveilles à Montfermeil – Jeanne Balibar (France)
The Tree House – Minh Quý Trương (Singapore/Vietnam/Germany/France/China)
Oroslan – Matjaž Ivanišin (Slovenia/Czech Republic)
Overseas – Yoon Sung-a (Belgium/France)
Space Dogs – Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter (Austria/Germany)
Moving Ahead
(Tourism Studies) – Joshua Gen Solondz (US) (short film)
A Topography Of Memory – Burak Cevik (Turkey/Canada) (medium-length film)
Black Hole – Emmanuel Grimaud, Arnaud Deshayes (France)
Color-Blind – Ben Russell (France/Germany) (medium-length film)
Distancing – Miko Ravereza (US) (short film)
In Memoriam – Jean-Claude Rousseau (France) (short film)
Kasiterit – Riar Rizaldi (Indonesia) (short film)
Krabi, 2562 – Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong (UK/Thailand)
Lore – Sky Hopinka (US) (short film)
Ralfs Farben – Lukas Marxt (Austria/Germany/Spain/France)
Osmosis – Zhou Tao (China)
Swinguerra – Barbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca (Brazil) (short film)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) – Ja’Tovia M Gary (US/France) (short film)
The Invisible Hand – Omer Fast (China/Germany) (short film)
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another – Jessica Sarah Rinland (UK/Argentina/Spain)
Un film dramatique – Eric Baudelaire (France)
Out of Competition
Arguments – Olivier Zabat (France)
Baghdad In My Shadow – Samir (Switzerland/Germany/UK/Iraq)
Etre Jérôme Bel – Sima Khatani, Aldo Lee (France)
Felix In Wonderland – Marie Losier (France/Germany)
Giraffe – Anna Sofie Hartmann (Germany/Denmark)
La Sainte Famille – Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (France)
Le Voyage du prince – Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard (France/Luxemburg)
Non è sogno – Giovanni Cioni (Italy)
Prazer, camaradas! – José Filipe Costa (Portugal)
Under The God – Dino Longo Sabanovic, Ana Shametaj, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Valentina Manzoni, Zhannat Alshanova, Ariel Gutiérrez Flores, Giulio Pattenò, Salvator Tinajero, Hayk Matevosyan, George Varsimashvili, Arthur Theyskens, Alex Takàcs, Naomi Waring, Grieco Rafael, Anna Spacio (collective film overseen by Béla Tarr) (Switzerland)
Wilcox – Denis Côté (Canada)
Wir Eltern – Eric Bergkraut, Ruth Schweikert (Switzerland)
De una isla – José Luis Guerin (Spain) (short film)
Lonely Rivers – Mauro Herce (Spain/France) (short film)
Mi piel, luminosa – Nicolás Pereda, Gabino Rodríguez (Mexico/Canada) (short film)
Nimic – Yorgos Lanthimos (Germany/United Kingdom/US) (short film)
San Vittore – Yuri Ancarani (Italy/Switzerland) (short film)
Sapphire Crystal – Virgil Vernier (France/Switzerland) (short film)
