Emerging talents, rising stars and established auteurs like Neo Sora, Marta Popivoda, Abdellah Taïa, Salvatore Mereu and Radu ...

Neo Sora (Happyend) and Salvatore Mereu (Three-Step Dance) are among the filmmakers set to debut new works as part of the ...

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate 'Barry Lyndon' and 'The Phoenician Scheme' costume Designer Milena Canonero with a ...

Lebanese indie Abbout Productions will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Raimondo Rezzonico Award celebrating the indie ethos.

The Locarno International Film Festival likes to call itself the “world capital of auteur cinema,” and while the Swiss event cannot claim the star power or industry heft of Cannes, ...

The independent Beirut-based production house Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will receive ...

On Aug. 23, 1946, just a few months after the inaugural Cannes Film Festival, the very first Locarno International Film Festival opened with a screening of Giacomo Gentilomo’s Italian neorealist ...

Emma Thompson will receive the Leopard Club Award at this year's Locarno Film Festival, where her latest flick, The Dead Of Winter, will debut. From director Brian Kirk, the film follows a widowed ...

Georges Schoucair became the CEO of Abbout Productions in 2004, and Myriam Sassine joined as lead producer in 2010.

Locarno Film Festival runs from August 7 — 17. Below, Nazzaro digs into this year’s edition, discussing why it was important to embrace the “diverse world” and honor Shah Rukh Khan, how ...