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Locarno announced the tribute during its announcement on Wednesday of its full 2023 line-up.
The festivals main International Competition will showcase 17 films this year, 16 of them world premieres.
A moment that we have attempted to grasp and recount by dialoguing with the films we have selected.
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International Competition Titles
AnimalDir.Sofia ExarchouGreece/Austria/Romania/Cyprus/BulgariaWorld premiere
Baan(Home) (Portugal)Dir.
Leonor TelesPortugalWorld premiere, First Feature
El Auge Del Humano 3Dir.
Eduardo WilliamsArgentina/Portugal/Netherlands/Taiwan/Brazil/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka/ Peru)World premiere
Essential Truths Of The LakeDir.
Lav DiazPhilippines/France/Portugal/Singapore/Italy/Switzerland/United KingdomWorld premiere
La Image Permanent (The Permanent Picture)Dir.
Laura FerresFrance/SpainWorld premiere, First Feature
Lousy CarterDir.
Rainer SarnetEstonia/Latvia/Greece/FinlandWorld premiere
Nuit Obscure Au Revoir Ici, NImporte OuDir.
Radu JudeRomania/Luxembourg/France/CroatiaWorld premiere
PatagoniaDir.
Simone BozzelliItalyWorld premiere, First Feature
RossosperanzaDir.
Annarita ZambranoItaly/FranceWorld premiere
StepneDir.Maryna VrodaUkraine/Germany/Poland/SlovakiaWorld premiere, First Feature
Sweet dreamsDir.
Ena SendijarevicNetherlands/Sweden/Indonesia/Reunion 2023World premiere
The Vanishing SoldierDir.Dani RosenbergIsraelWorld premiere
YannickDir.
Quentin DupieuxFranceInternational premiere
Piazza Grande Line-up
Anatomy Of A FallDir.
Justine TrietFrance
Antarctica Calling(Continent Magnetique)Dir.
Luc JacquetFranceWorld premiere
Guardians of the Formula(Cuvari Formule)Dir.
Dragan BjelogrlicSerbia/Slovenia/Montenegro/North MacedoniaWorld premiere
DammiDir.
Yann Mounir DemangeFranceWorld premiere
Falling StarsDir.
Richard Karpala, Gabriel BienczyckiUSWorld premiere, First Feature
The Falling StarDir.
Fiona Gordon, Dominique AbelFrance/BelgiumWorld premiere
The Beautiful SummerDir.
Laura LuchettiItalyWorld premiere
City of Women(1980)Dir.
by Federico FelliniItaly/France
La Paloma(1974)Dir.
Daniel SchmidSwitzerland/France
La Voie RoyaleDir.
by Frederic MermoudFrance/SwitzerlandWorld premiere
Smugglers(Milsu)Dir.
RYOO Seung-wanSouth KoreaEuropean premiere
Filmmakers of The Present Competition
Camping du LacDir.
Eleonore SaintagnanBelgium/FranceWorld premiere, First Feature
Ein Schoner OrtDir.
Katharina HuberGermanyWorld premiere, First Feature
Excursion(Ekskurzija)Dir.
Una GunjakBosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/ Serbia/France/Norway/QatarWorld premiere, First Feature
Family PortraitDir.
Lucy KerrUSAWorld premiere, First Feature
Dreaming & Dying(Hao Jiu Bu Jian)Dir.
Nelson YeoSingapore/IndonesiaWorld premiere, First Feature
La MorsureDir.
Romain de Saint-BlanquatFranceWorld premiere, First Feature
Negu HurbilakDir.
Colectivo NeguSpainWorld premiere, First Feature
On The GoDir.
Maria Gisele Royo, Julia de CastroSpainWorld premiere, First Feature
Rapture(Rimdogittanga)Dir.
Dominic SangmaIndia/China/Switzerland/Netherlands/QatarWorld premiere
RiviereDir.
Hugues HaricheSwitzerland/FranceWorld premiere, First Feature
Todos Los IncendiosDir.
Mauricio Calderon RicoMexicoWorld premiere, First Feature
TouchedDir.
Claudia RorariusGermanyWorld premiere
Und Dass Man Ohne Tauschung Zu Leben VermagDir.
Katharina LudinGermany/SwitzerlandWorld premiere, First Feature
Whispers Of Fire & WaterDir.
Lubdhak ChatterjeeIndiaWorld premiere, First Feature
West Border(Xi Du)Dir.
