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The 79th Locarno Film Festival Gets Underway
The festival will screen 233 films, including 103 world premieres, as it opens with a program shaped by changing industry conditions.
- The 79th Locarno Film Festival opens today, featuring 233 films over 11 days. This evening, Italian actress Isabella Rossellini receives an award in Piazza Grande.
- Opening the festival is "The Green Eyes," a drama by directing duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh. The film follows 11-year-old Chaya whose brother falls into deep sleep when their family receives deportation papers.
- Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Giona Nazzaro seeks to address global issues through "tools of cinema, storytelling, imagination and fantasy." Nazzaro noted a decline in studio pictures across the European festival circuit this year.
- Seventeen films compete for the Pardo, the festival's most coveted award, while organizers scheduled 103 world premieres. A retrospective on the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy era makes its debut.
- Swiss government minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider attends the official opening, which features a restored 4K version of "Dances" incorporating 30 minutes of previously unseen footage, extending its duration to nearly four hours.
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