My Most Expected Films From Locarno
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- DirectorKatsuya TomitaStarsSubenja PongkornSunun PhuwisetChutipha PromplangBangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsMário BarrosoLuís Miguel CintraTânia DinisThe film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsMiriam JakobThorbjörn BjörnssonMaren EggertA young German couple find their relationship tested after his mother suffers an accident. Thirty years later, a middle-aged actress splits with her anthropologist husband. Soon, these two couples' paths cross in unexpected ways.
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsAgustina MuñozMaría VillarMati DiopHermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsSerban PavluAlex BogdanGabriel SpahiuEmanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
- DirectorJulien SamaniStarsKévin AzaïsSamir GuesmiJean-François StéveninBased on Joseph Conrad's short story "Youth".
- DirectorAkihiko ShiotaStarsTasuku NagaokaYuki MamiyaYûmi AkagiWhen a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into his life and is unrelenting.
- DirectorMilagros MumenthalerStarsCarla CrespoRosario BléfariMalena MoironInès, 35 years old, is a photographer. She is in an emotionally fragile phase and begins putting together a book of personal poems and photographs. Gradually, the process of bringing a book to fruition becomes a very personal and unfettered exploration of her past: of her relationship with her mother; the role of the family home in the south, which seems to have been frozen in time; and how the absence of her father - who disappeared in 1977 during the dictatorship - influenced all of those years.
- DirectorAxelle RopertStarsMélanie BernierBastien BouillonAntonin FressonWhen they meet in the elevator, Théo doesn't see that Élise is blind. It's hate at first sight. Love takes its time. Will that early misunderstanding bring them together or drive them apart?
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsTairo CaroliWendy WeberArthur RobinThe young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorKristina GrozevaPetar ValchanovStarsStefan DenolyubovMargita GoshevaAlexandra AngelovaA reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry's head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.
- DirectorStergios PaschosStarsIro BezouHaris FragoulisTwelve hard months after their sudden break-up, a struggling musician invites his ex-lover at a friend's sumptuous villa in search of answers. Living apart, or living together, is equally scary; but, is there an answer to every question?
- DirectorMohammed HammadStarsHeba AliAsmaa FawziJohn Ekram HannaA defining week in Iman's life goes by as she attempts to convince any of her uncles to attend her younger sister's engagement in her deceased father's place, as is tradition. However, a shocking discovery prompts her to do away with all these withered traditions that she once clung to.
- DirectorTetsuya MarikoStarsYûya YagiraMasaki SudaNana KomatsuAt some point beating and ravaging others becomes a routine pastime when two kids go on a rampage. Taira picks his target of men and goes for broke, while Kitahara puts down his camera long enough to instead go after women. There is enough blood shed during the course of one night to paint a mural of red for the whole city to see.
- DirectorCaroline Deruas-GarrelStarsClotilde HesmeJenna ThiamTchéky KaryoThe story of the relationship between two young artists, a photographer and a writer, but above all the story of personal freedom through the filter of the imagination.
- DirectorMaud AlpiStarsBostonVirgile HanrotDimitri BuchenetThe animals arrive by night. They intuit. They resist. A young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. His dog discovers a terrifying world that seems certain never to end.
- DirectorLina RodriguezStarsLaura OsmaMaruia SheltonFrancisco ZalduaAdelaida, 17, lives in Bogotá with her parents. Together, they enjoy a comfortable family life. But cracks are beginning to show. Most of the housekeeping and parental duties fall onto Adelaida's overworked mother, while she is at the peak of her teen angst, until tragedy strikes the family.
- DirectorAlex PitstraWhat is it like to be a child of a Tunisian playboy and a Dutch mother? Are expectations and cultures on both sides compatible?
- DirectorPavel CuzuiocStarsFlavio FornasaNadezhda SokhatskayaRonald Zwanziger"SECONDO ME' follows three cloakroom attendants at three European opera houses: Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan and Odessa Opera House.