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\nLocarno Film Festival 2017<\/B>

\n2 – 12 August 2017

\nLocarno, Switzerland

\nLocarno website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The line-up for the 70th Locarno Festival promises a range of excting home-grown films amongst some big hitters and some hidden gems.<\/I><\/b><\/p>\n

Electric Sheep will be at the Locarno Film Festival for the first time this year, and with its 16 title-strong Piazza Grande features and 11 world premieres, the 70th edition of the festival promises to be intriguing, fun and hugely exciting.<\/p>\n

Opening tonight with Tomorrow and Every Other Day<\/i> directed by Noemie Lvovsky, the Locarno competition line-up usually focuses on content rather than big names and this year is no exception. We are particularly looking forward to the new film by John Carroll Lynch, Lucky<\/i>, starring Hary Dean Stanton and David Lynch, and other promising works by exciting new and established filmmakers such as Aaron Katz ( Gemini<\/i>) and Jim McKay (En el S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda<\/i>), Swiss director Dominik Locher ( Goliath<\/i>, Quebec \u2013based Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9 (A Skin So Soft<\/i>), French auteur Serge Bozon ( Madame Hyde<\/i>, starring Isabelle Huppert), Romanian director Andrei Cretulescu (Charlston<\/i>) and Travis Wilkerson, whose latest work Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun<\/i> concerns a crime that has haunted his personal life since his childhood.<\/p>\n

The Piazza Grande films in this 70th anniversary edition include Atomic Blonde<\/i> with Charlize Theron, Cannes festival hit Good Time<\/i> starring Robert Pattinson, Kumail Nanjiani\u2019s refreshingly unusual romantic comedy The Big Sick<\/i>, What Happened to Monday?<\/i> with Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe and Noomi rapace, and the world premiere of Anup Singh\u2019s The Song of Scorpions<\/i>, starring Irrfan Khan, who will be one of the festival’s special guests this year.<\/p>\n

Actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz, who stars in Samuel Jouy\u2019s debut feature Sparring<\/i>, will receive the festival\u2019s 2017 excellence award, while Nastassja Kinski will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award and Adrien Brody will receive the honorary 2017 Leopard Club award.<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s retrospective is dedicated to B-movie legend Jacques Tourneur (1904 – 1977), whose 1943 classic I Walked With A Zombie<\/i> also plays in the Piazza Grande section.<\/p>\n

Check out the line-up below, along with our reviews where available.<\/p>\n

PIAZZA GRANDE<\/b>
\nStories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World<\/i>, Francesca Comencini, Italy
\nAtomic Blonde<\/i>, David Leitch, U.S.
\nChien<\/i>, Samuel Benchetrit, France
\nTomorrow and Thereafter<\/i>, Noemie Lvovsky, France
\nThree Peaks<\/i>, Jan Zabeil, Germany, Italy
\nGood Time<\/i>, Josh and Ben Safdie, U.S.
\nGotthard \u2013 One Life, One Soul<\/i>, Kevin Merz, Italy
\nI Walked With a Zombie<\/i>, Jacques Tourneur, U.S.
\nIceman<\/i>, Feliz Randau, Germany, Italy, Austria
\nLet The Corpses Tan<\/i>, Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium, France
\nLola Pater<\/i>, Nadir Mokneche, France
\nSicilia!<\/i>, Jean-Marie Straub, Italy, France, Germany
\nSparring<\/i>, Samuel Jouy, France
\nThe Big Sick<\/i>, Michael Showalter, U.S.
\nThe Song of Scorpions<\/i>, Anup Singh, Switzerland, France
\nWhat Happened to Monday<\/i>, Tommy Wirkola, U.K.<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION<\/b>
\n9 Doigts<\/i>, F.J. Ossang, France, Portugal
\nGood Manners,<\/i> Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil
\nCharleston<\/i>, Andrei Cretulescu, France, Romania
\nDid You Wonder Who Fired The Gun<\/i>, Travis Wilkerson, U.S.
\nFreedom<\/i>, Jan Speckenbach, Germany
\nGemini<\/i>, Aaron Katz, U.S.
\nGli Asteroidi<\/i>, Germano Maccioni, Italy
\nGoliath<\/i>, Dominik Locher, Switzerland
\nGood Luck<\/i>, Ben Russell, France, Germania
\nLa Telenovela Errante<\/i>, Raul Ruiz, Chile
\nLucky<\/i>, John Carroll Lynch, U.S.
\nMadame Hyde<\/i>, Serge Bozon, France
\nMrs. Fang<\/i>, Wang Bing, China, Germany
\nDragonfly Eyes<\/i>, Xu Bing, Cina
\nA Skin So Soft<\/i>, Denis Cote, Canada
\nWinter Brothers<\/i>, Hlynur Palmason, Denmark, Iceland
\nWajib, Annemarie Jacir<\/i>, Palestine, France
\nEn el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day)<\/i>, Jim McKay, U.S.<\/p>\n

For more Information about this year’s programme visit the Locarno website<\/A>. <\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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