The Locarno International Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup for its 79th edition, and it includes the latest films from the likes of South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then), a former Golden Leopard winner at the fest and past Locarno award winner Nelson Yeo (Dreaming & Dying) from Singapore in the international competition program. Also part of the lineup is a new movie from Spain’s Albert Serra (Afternoons of Solitude) in an out-of-competition spot.
Locarno 2026, taking place Aug. 5-15, will also present new works from U.S. filmmakers Erin Vassilopoulos (Superior) and Vincent Grashaw (Keep Quiet), Senegal’s Mamadou Dia (Demba), Portugal’s Edgar Pêra (Telepathic Letters), Canada’s Denis Côté (Vic and Flo Saw a Bear) and Wayne Wapeemukwa (Luk’Luk’I).
Meanwhile, world premieres, some of this season’s film festival favorites and classics will screen in Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section, taking place on the town’s main square set up with 8,000 seats. World premieres to be watched there include Ni Vue, Ni Connue (All About Corinne) by Marc Fitoussi, starring Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Bercot and Diane Kruger, Felix Randau’s Ich Ist ein Anderer (I Is Another) with Claes Bang, Valerie Pachner and Susanne Wuest, and Armony by Dario Albertini, whose cast includes Asia Argento and Ornella Muti.
