Teniendo el riesgo y el arrojo como sus principales puntas de lanza, el Festival de Locarno cada vez incurre más en el esotérico territorio del cine experimental, aunque sin llegar nunca a excederse en su radicalidad. Más que ningún otro certamen, Locarno es el hogar (dulce hogar) de todos aquellos proyectos que resultan excesivamente arriesgados para pisar una Croisette, cuya relación con el cine avant-garde resulta cada vez más distante. Nunca mejor dicho, el Sundance europeo ya está aquí. Locarno abre sus puertas.

Y en el encontramos los nombres españoles de  un viejo conocido de filmin como Sergio Oksman (quien competirá por el Pardo de Oro con su nuevo film, "O Futebol"), Oliver Laxe (el director de "Todos vosotros sois capitanes" protagoniza la nueva peli del cineasta británico experimental Ben Rivers, quien también competirá  en Sección Oficial), Mauro Herce (director de fotografía de "Slimane", "El Quinto evangelio de Gaspar Hauser" o "Arraianos", cuyo debut compite en Cineasti del Presente) y atención, José Luis Guerín, cuyo nuevo film, "La academia de las musas" se proyecta en el marco de Signs of Life. Y sin olvidar a Xacio Baño o Lois Patiño, quienes presentan sendos cortometrajes).

En lo referente al resto del programa, destacar el concurso en Sección Oficial de "Chevalier" de Athina Rachel Tsangari, "Entertainment" de Rick Alverson y "James White" de Josh Mond (ambas estrellas de Sundance), "Cosmos" de Andrzej Zulawski, "No Home Movie" de Chantal Akerman, "Right Now, Wrong Then" de Hong Sang-soo, "Schneider vs. Bax" de Alex van Warmerdan, "Te prometo Anarquía" de Julio Hernández Cordón (director de "Las marimbas del infierno") o "Ricki & the Flash" de Jonathan Demme, que será la responsable de inaugurar el festival.

Finalmente, destacar la proyección del gran hit de Sundance, "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" en la Piazza Grande. A continuación, la programación completa.

PROGRAMACIÓN

SECCIÓN OFICIAL

BELLA E PERDUTA by Pietro Marcello
Italy – 2015 – 86'
World Premiere

BRAT DEJAN (Brother Dejan) by Bakur Bakuradze
Russia/Serbia – 2015 – 113'
World Premiere

CHEVALIER by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece – 2015 – 99'
World Premiere

COSMOS by Andrzej Zulawski
France/Portugal – 2015 – 103'
World Premiere

ENTERTAINMENT by Rick Alverson
USA – 2015 – 104'
International Premiere

HAPPY HOUR by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Japan – 2015 – 317'
World Premiere

HEIMATLAND by Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nölle, Lionel Rupp, Mike Scheiwiller
Switzerland/Germany – 2015 – 99'
World Premiere

JAMES WHITE by Josh Mond
USA – 2015 – 88'
International Premiere, First feature

JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo
South Korea – 2015 – 121'
World Premiere

MA DAR BEHESHT (Paradise) by Sina Ataeian Dena
Iran/Germany – 2015 – 100'
World Premiere, opera prima

NO HOME MOVIE by Chantal Akerman
Belgium/France – 2015 – 115'
World Premiere

O FUTEBOL by Sergio Oksman
Spain – 2015 – 68' 
World Premiere

SCHNEIDER VS. BAX by Alex van Warmerdam
Netherlands/Belgium – 2015 – 95'
International Premiere

SUITE ARMORICAINE by Pascale Breton
France – 2015 – 145'
World Premiere

SULANGA GINI ARAN (Dark in the White Light) by Vimukthi Jayasundara
Sri Lanka/France – 2015 – 80'
World Premiere

TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA by Julio Hernández Cordón
Mexico/Germany – 2015 – 88'
World Premiere

THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS by Ben Rivers
World Premiere

TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan
Israel – 2015 – 120'
International Premiere


PIAZZA GRANDE

5 | 8
RICKI AND THE FLASH by Jonathan Demme – USA – 2015 – 100’
Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Edward Norton

6 | 8
LA BELLE SAISON by Catherine Corsini – France – 2015 – 105’
LE DERNIER PASSAGE by Pascal Magontier – France – 2015 – 28’
Pardo alla carriera to Marlen Khutsiev

7 | 8
DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume – Germany – 2015 – 105’ 
SOUTHPAW by Antoine Fuqua – USA – 2015 – 123’
Leopard Club Award to Andy Garcia

8 | 8
TRAINWRECK by Judd Apatow – USA – 2015 – 125’ 
JACK by Elisabeth Scharang – Austria – 2015 – 95’
Presentation Retrospettiva Sam Peckinpah

9 | 8
FLORIDE by Philippe Le Guay – France – 2015 – 110’ 
THE DEER HUNTER by Michael Cimino – United Kingdom/USA – 1978 – 182’
Pardo d'onore Swisscom to Michael Cimino

10 | 8
ERLKÖNIG by Georges Schwizgebel – Switzerland – 2015 – 5’ 
GUIBORD S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE by Philippe Falardeau – Canada – 2015 – 108’
Pardo alla carriera to Bulle Ogier

11 | 8
BOMBAY VELVET by Anurag Kashyap – India – 2015 – 148’
Open Doors presentation

12 | 8
PASTORALE CILENTANA by Mario Martone – Italy – 2015 – 19’ 
AMNESIA by Barbet Schroeder – Switzerland/France – 2015 – 96’
Premio Cinema Ticino to Teco Celio

13 | 8
LA VANITÉ by Lionel Baier – Switzerland/France – 2015 – 75’
QING TIAN JIE YI HAO (The Laundryman) by LEE Chung – Taiwan – 2015 – 110’
Vision Award Nescens to Walter Murch

14 | 8
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon – USA – 2014 – 105’

I PUGNI IN TASCA by Marco Bellocchio – Italy – 1965 – 107’
Pardo d’onore Swisscom to Marco Bellocchio

15 | 8
HELIOPOLIS by Sérgio Machado – Brazil – 2015 – 98’
Award Ceremony


CONCURSO CINEASTAS DEL PRESENTE

DEAD SLOW AHEAD by Mauro Herce
Spain/France – 2015 – 74'
World Premiere, opera prima

DER NACHTMAHR by AKIZ
Germany – 2015 – 88'
International Premiere

DOM JUAN by Vincent Macaigne
France – 2015 – 108'
World Premiere, opera prima

DREAM LAND by Steve Chen
Cambogia/USA – 2015 – 90' with Lida Duch, Sokun Nhem, Hak Kim 
World Premiere, opera prima

EL MOVIMIENTO by Benjamín Naishtat
Argentina/South Korea – 2015 – 67'
International Premiere

KEEPER by Guillaume Senez
Belgium/Switzerland/France – 2015 – 91'
World Premiere, opera prima

LE GRAND JEU by Nicolas Pariser
France – 2015 – 100'
World Premiere, opera prima

LES ÊTRES CHERS by Anne Émond
Canada – 2015 – 102'
World Premiere

LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan
China/China – 2015 – 110'
World Premiere, opera prima

MOJ BRATE – MIO FRATELLO by Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti
Italy/Canada/Bosnia-Erzegovina – 2015 – 78'
World Premiere, opera prima

OLMO & THE SEAGULL by Petra Costa, Lea Glob
Denmark/Brazil/Portugal/France – 2014 – 85'
World Premiere

SIEMBRA by Ángela Osorio Rojas, Santiago Lozano Álvarez
Colombia/Germany – 2015 – 80'
World Premiere, opera prima

THE WAITING ROOM by Igor Drljaca
Canada – 2015 – 92'
World Premiere

THITHI by Raam Reddy
India – 2015 – 130'
World Premiere, opera prima

 

FUERA DE COMPETICIÓN

CONTRE-POUVOIRS by Malek Bensmaïl
Algeria/France – 2015 – 97’ 
World Premiere

FRAGMENTS DU PARADIS by Stéphane Goël
Switzerland – 2015 – 85’
World Premiere

GENITORI by Alberto Fasulo
Italy – 2015 – 82’
World Premiere

I SOGNI DEL LAGO SALATO by Andrea Segre
Italy – 2015 – 72’ 
World Premiere

KAKI KOUBA by Kazuhiro Soda
Japan/USA – 2015 – 145’
World Premiere

KIEV/MOSCOW. PART 1 by Elena Khoreva
Russia/Estonia/Ukraine – 2015 – 70’ 
World Premiere, opera prima

LE BOIS DONT LES RÊVES SONT FAITS by Claire Simon
France/Switzerland – 2015 – 144’ 
World Premiere

ROMEO E GIULIETTA by Massimo Coppola
Italy – 2015 – 56’
World Premiere

TOPOPHILIA by Peter Bo Rappmund
USA – 2015 – 62’ 
International Premiere

VIVERE ALLA GRANDE by Fabio Leli
Italy – 2015 – 159’ 
World Premiere, opera prima

YES NO MAYBE by Kaspar Kasics
Switzerland – 2015 – 105’
World Premiere


SIGNS OF LIFE

88:88 by Isiah Medina
Canada – 2015 – 65'
World Premiere, opera prima

CHI (Mr. Zhang Believes) by QIU Jiongjiong
China – 2015 – 135'
World Premiere

DEUX RÉMI, DEUX by Pierre Léon
France/Switzerland – 2015 – 66'
World Premiere

L'ACCADEMIA DELLE MUSE by José Luis Guerin
Spain – 2015 – 92'
World Premiere

L'INFINITA FABBRICA DEL DUOMO by Martina Parenti, Massimo D'anolfi
Italy – 2015 – 74'
World Premiere

MACHINE GUN OR TYPEWRITER? by Travis Wilkerson
USA – 2015 – 71' with Travis Wilkerson 
World Premiere

RECOLLECTION by Kamal Aljafari 
Germany – 2015 – 70'
World Premiere, opera prima

SLACKJAW by Zach Weintraub
USA – 2014 – 71'
World Premiere