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Locarno Film Festival · 2016

Locarno Film Festival 2016

Concorso Internazionale

Programme

17 films · 3 reviews

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Al Ma' Wal Khodra Wal Wajh El Hassan

Class prejudice, business rivalries and secret love complicate a family wedding.

(Country: Egypt; Year: 2016; Director: Yousry Nasrallah)

The Apple Of My Eye (La Prunelle De Mes Yeux)

A young man and woman who live in the same building and both love music hate one another after an early misunderstanding - but can they keep it up?

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Axelle Ropert; Stars: Mélanie Bernier , Bastien Bouillon , Antonin Fresson , Chloé Astor , Swann Arlaud , Serge Bozon )

Bangkok Nites

A Bangkok sex worker is reunited with a Japanese soldier he once fell in love with, but their attempts to find a future together are compromised by the legacy of colonialism.

(Country: Japan, France, Thailand, Laos; Year: 2016; Director: Katsuya Tomita)

By The Time It Gets Dark (Dao Khanong)

A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress are all connected to each other in hidden ways.

(Country: Thailand, Netherlands, France, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong)

Correspondences (Correspondências)

The story of poet Jorge de Sena's 20 year exile and his correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

(Country: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English/Italian/Greek/Russian; Year: 2016; Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes)

Der Traumhafte Weg

An English youth and a German girl fall in love but are separated by circumstance, only for chance to bring them to the same city 30 years later.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Angela Schanelec)

Glory (Slava)

Review preview for Glory

This is black comedy at its best, subtle, confident in deadpan, as bleak and dry as a sun-scorched siding.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
A railway worker finds a large amount of money on the line and duly hands it over to the authorities, who give him a watch, which stops working.

(Country: Bulgaria, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Kristina Grozeva , Petar Valchanov; Writer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov; Stars: Stefan Denolyubov , Margita Gosheva)

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Godless

A lonely morphine addict, care home worker and casual fraudster finds her life transformed by her friendship with an elderly man - who may have secrets of his own.

(Country: Bulgaria, Denmark, France; Year: 2016; Director: Ralitza Petrova)

Hermia And Helena (Hermia & Helena)

A struggling young theatre director receives a series of mysterious postcards from a stranger, leading her on a strange journey.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Matías Piñeiro)

The Idea Of A Lake (La Idea De Un Lago)

A pregnant photographer, trying to complete her book before she gives birth, is drawn back to he disappearance of her father under the military dictatorship.

(Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Milagros Mumenthaler; Writer: Milagros Mumenthaler; Stars: Carla Crespo , Rosario Bléfari , Malena Moiron )

Inimi Cicatrizate

In a sanatorium on the Black Sea coat, a young man dying of bone tuberculosis falls in love with another patient.

(Country: Romania, Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Radu Jude)

The Last Family (Ostatnia Rodzina)

A surrealist painter famous for his S&M themes tries to keep his suicidal son from harm.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Jan P Matuszyński; Writer: Robert Bolesto; Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna, Andrzej Chyra)

Marija

Review preview for Marija

Margarita Breitkreiz gives a formidable performance.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A young cleaning women, suddenly unemployed, is willing to do anything to fulfil her dream of owning her own hairdressing salon.

(Country: Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Michael Koch; Writer: Juliane Grossheim, Michael Koch; Stars: Margarita Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Olga Dinnikova, Sahin Eryilmaz )

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Mister Universo

After losing his lucky charm, a young lion tamer sets off on a long journey in search of the Mister Universe who originally gave it to him.

(Country: Austria, Italy; Year: 2016; Director: Tizza Covi , Rainer Frimmel; Writer: Tizza Covi; Stars: Tairo Caroli , Wendy Weber , Arthur Robin , Lilly Robin)

The Ornithologist (O Ornitólogo)

Review preview for The Ornithologist

In keeping with the hagiographic tradition, Hamy keeps his performance rather flat, but this is problematic for The Ornothologist as a film; its success as a piece of art is somewhat at odds with audience appeal.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An ornithologist searching for black storks is swept away by rapids and awakens in a mysterious, dark forest.

(Country: Portugal, France, Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: João Pedro Rodrigues; Writer: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Stars: Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao, João Pedro Rodrigues, Han Wen, Chan Suan, Juliane Elting )

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Wet Woman In The Wind (Kaze Ni Nureta Onna)

A former playwright living in a remote village finds himself ensnared by a sexually overwhelming young woman.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Akihito Shiota; Writer: Akihito Shiota; Stars: Yuki Mamiya, Tasuku Nagaoka, Ryushin Tei, Michiko Suzuki)

The Young One (Jeunesse)

A young man hoping for adventure hops aboard a freighter, but tensions grow as things fail to go to plan.

(Country: France, Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Julien Samani)