quietearth [Film Festival 07.15.09] movie news



Locarno, a Swiss fest dedicated to indie arthouse fair, especially with an arthouse lilt, has unveiled its lineup and it includes 10 world premiers. Locarno premiers serious weirdness (and awesomeness) like David Manuli's Beket (review here) which bowed last year.

I have yet to go through everything, so I'm just posting this as of now.

Check the full lineup after the break.


THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL
PIAZZA GRANDE
"500 Days of Summer," Marc Webb, U.S. (opener)
"Blue Sofa" (short), Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono, Lara Fremder, Italy
"The Two Horses of Genghis Khan" (closer), Byambasuren Davaa, Germany
"Giulias Verschwinden," Christoph Schaub, Switzerland
"La Guerre des fils de la lumiere contre les fils des tenebres," Amos Gitai, France
"The Valley," Mihaly Gyorik, Switzerland-Italy-Hungary
"Les Derniers jours du monde," Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France-Spain-Taiwan
"Les Yeux de Simone" (short), Jean-Louis Porchet, Switzerland-France
"My Sister's Keeper," Nick Cassavetes, U.S.
"Petit Indi," Marc Recha, Spain-France
"Pom Poko," Isao Takahata, Japan
"Redline," Takeshi Koike, Japan
"Same Same but Different," Detlev Buck, Germany
"Sounds and Silence," Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer, Switzerland
"Unter Bauern -- Retter In Der Nacht," Ludi Boeken, Germany-France

PIAZZA GRANDE MANGA NIGHT
"Mobile Suit Gundam," Ryoji Fujiwara and Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japan
"La Maison en petits cubes" (short), Kunio Kato, Japan
"First Squad: The Moment of Truth," Yoshiharu Asino, Misha Shprits and Aljoscha Klimov, Canada-Russia-Germany

INTL. COMPETITION
"A Religiosa portuguesa," Eugene Green, Portugal-France
"Akadimia Platonos," Filippos Tsitos, Greece-Germany
"Au voleur," Sarah Leonor, France
"Buben Baraban," Aleksei Mizgiryov, Russia
"Complices," Frederic Mermoud, France-Switzerland
"Frontier Blues," Babak Jalali, Iran-U.K.-Italy
"La Cantante de tango," Diego Martinez Vignatti, Belgium-Argentina
"La Donation," Bernard Emond, Canada
"La Invencion de la carne," Santiago Loza, Argentina
"L'insurgee," Laurent Perreau, France
"Nothing Personal," Urszula Antoniak, Netherlands-Ireland
"The Famous and the Dead," Esmir Filho, Brazil-France
"At the End of Daybreak," Ho Yuhang, Malaysia-Hong Kong-South Korea
"She, a Chinese," Xiaolu Guo, U.K.-France-Germany
"Shirley Adams," Oliver Hermanus, South Africa-U.S.
"Summer Wars," Mamoru Hosoda, Japan
"The Search," Pema Tseden, China
"Where Are You?," Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan

OUT OF COMPETITION
"La Paura," Pippo Delbono, France

FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT COMPETITION
"A fuga, a raiva, a danca, a bunda, a boca, a calma, a vida da mulher gorilla," Felipe Braganca and Marina Meliande, Brazil
"Castro," Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina
"Greetings From the Woods," Mikel Cee Karlsson, Sweden
"Ivul," Andrew Kotting, France-Switzerland
"Warriors of Love," Simon Staho, Denmark
"Men on the Bridge," Asli Ozge, Germany-Turkey-Netherlands
"La Reine des pommes," Valerie Donzelli, France
"Mirna," Corso Salani, Italy
"Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai," Mizuho Nishikubo, Japan
"Nikotoko Island," Takuya Dairiki and Takashi Miura, Japan
"October Country," Michael Palmieri and Donald Mosher, U.S.
"Piombo Fuso," Stefano Savona, Italy
"Sogno il mondo il venerdi," Pasquale Marrazzo, Italy
"The Anchorage," C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom, U.S.
"The Marsdreamers," Richard Dindo, Switzerland-France
"Todos mienten," Matias Pineiro, Argentina
"Un Transport en commun," Dyana Gaye, France

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