A scene from Baltasar KormĂĄkur's Two Guns
The Locarno Film Festival recently unveiled its full lineup of competition films and galas for the event taking place next month. The international premiere of Baltasar KormĂĄkur's Two Guns with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg will open the 66th edition of the festival in its open air Piazza Grande, one of 16 films that will screen at the festival's lakeside 8,000-seat open air cinema. The film revolves around a DEA agent and undercover Naval Intelligence officer who are investigating one another, but find out they have been set up by the mob. The film will usher the festival's lineup, programmed under the leadership of the festival's new Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian.
This year's program includes the 20-film international competition, of which 18 are world premieres. The festival will also present films spotlighting contemporary cinema, shorts and more. As previously announced, the festival will present a retrospective of George Cukor in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. That program will then head to New York in December.
Highlights from the International Competition include the World Premiere of Daniel and Diego Vega's El Mudo, Spanish director Albert Serra's Story of My Death, Swiss/French production Mary, Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest Real, and the International Premiere of Destin Cretton's Short Term 12, which won the jury prize at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Pascal Plisson's On the Way to School (Sur le chemin de l'ĂŠcole) will close out the festival, which takes place August 7 – 17 in Switzerland. The festival typically screens titles that later appear at fall film festivals in North America.
“I think of Locarno as a frontier festival,” Chatrian wrote in an introduction of the lineup. “A festival that tries to explore whatâs going on at the limits of the fi lm spectrum, on the edges of the frame, to pick up the things that are just off camera but which somehow define the scene. Today the significance of the notion of being avant-garde has perhaps worn a little thin: itâs no longer about being the first to reach a particular spot, itâs more a question of the desire and ability to give space and visibility to neglected or insufficiently regarded films, filmmakers and film industries.
Film Society will be in attendance to co-host, alongside Indiewire, the Critics Academy for the second time this year, mentoring nine aspiring film critics attending Locarno.
Locarno's Competition, Piazza Grande Galas and emerging filmmakers sections follow with information provided by the festival.
Concorso Internazionale – a panorama of contemporary auteur cinema where young talent rubs shoulders with that of established directors. A jury of major figures in cinema is charged with choosing one of the 20 competing fiction or documentary features from all over the world, screened as world or international premieres, to win the prestigious Pardo d'oro.
E AGORA? LEMBRA-ME (What Now? Remind Me) by Joaquim Pinto â¨Portugal â 2013 â 164 min. â¨with Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel â¨Production: C.r.i.m. â¨Co-production: Presente ediçþes de autor lda. â¨World Sales: C.r.i.m. â¨
World Premiere
EDUCAĂĂO SENTIMENTAL (Sentimental Education) by JĂşlio Bressane â¨Brazil â 2013 â 84 min. â¨with Josie Antello, Bernardo Marinho, DĂŠbora Olivieri â¨
Production: RepĂşblica Pureza Filmes Ltda, TB ProducĂľes â¨World Sales: Ludwig Maia ArtHouse â¨
World Premiere
EL MUDO by Daniel and Diego Vega â¨Peru/France/Mexico â 2013 â 86 min. â¨with Fernando Bacilio, Lidia RodrĂguez, Juan Luis Maldonado, Augussto Varillas, JosĂŠ Luis GĂłmez, Norka RamĂrez, Ernesto RĂĄez â¨
Production: Maretazo Cine â¨Co-production: Urban Factory, Nodream Cinema â¨World Sales: UDI – Urban Distribution International â¨
World Premiere
EXHIBITION by Joanna Hogg â¨United Kingdom â 2013 â 105 min. â¨with Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston â¨
Production: Wild Horses Film Company Limited â¨
World Premiere
FEUCHTGEBIETE by David Wnendt â¨Germany â 2013 â 109 min. â¨with Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse, Peri Baumeister, Edgar Selge, Harry Baer â¨
Production: Rommel Film â¨Co-production: ZDF â¨World Sales: The Match Factory â¨Swiss distributor: Filmcoopi ZĂźrich â¨
World Premiere
GARE DU NORD by Claire Simon â¨France/Canada â 2013 â 119 min. â¨with Nicole Garcia, Reda Kateb, François Damiens, Monia Chokri
â¨Production: Les Films d'Ici â¨Co-production: France 3 cinema, Productions thalie â¨World Sales: Les Films d'Ici â¨
World Premiere
HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT (Story of My Death) by Albert Serra â¨Spain/France â 2013 â 140 min. â¨with Vincenc Altaio Morral, Lluis Massanellas Serrat, Clara Visa, Noelia Rodenas, Jordi Pau Costa
â¨Production: Andergraun Films â¨Co-production: Capricci Films â¨World Sales: Capricci Films â¨
World Premiere
LâĂTRANGE COULEUR DES LARMES DE TON CORPS (The Strange Colour of Your Bodyâs Tears) by HĂŠlène Cattet and Bruno Forzani â¨Belgium/France/Luxembourg â 2013 â 102 min. â¨with Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck, Anna Dâannunzio, Manon Beuchot â¨
Production: Anonymes Films, Tobina Film â¨Co-production: Epidemic, Mollywood, Red lion â¨World Sales: Bac Films â¨
World Premiere
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS by Thomas Imbach â¨Switzerland/France â 2013 â 120 min. â¨with Camille Rutherford, Mehdi Dehbi, Aneurin Barnard, Sean Biggerstaff, Edward Hogg, Tony Curran â¨
Production: OKOFILM Productions â¨Co-production: SRF, SRG SSR, ARTE G.E.I.E. â¨Swiss distributor: PathĂŠ Suisse â¨
World Premiere
PAYS BARBARE by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi â¨France â 2013 â 65 min. â¨Documentary â¨
Production: Les Films dâIci â¨
World Premiere
REAL by Kiyoshi Kurosawa â¨Japan â 2013 â 127 min. â¨with Takeru Satoh, Haruka Ayase â¨
Production: Twins Japan inc. â¨World Sales: TBS – Tokyo Broadcasting System Television â¨
International Premiere
SANGUE by Pippo Delbono â¨Italy/Switzerland â 2013 â 89 min. â¨with Pippo Delbono, Margherita Delbono, Giovanni Senzani, Anna Fenzi, Bobò, Coro e orchestra del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli â¨
Production: Compagnia Pippo Delbono, Casa Azul Films â¨Co-production: CinĂŠmathèque suisse, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Vivo Films with Rai Cinema â¨
World Premiere
SHORT TERM 12 by Destin Cretton â¨United States â 2013 â 96 min. â¨with Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek, Keith Stanfield, Kevin Hernandez â¨Production: Animal Kingdom, Traction Media â¨World Sales: Memento Films International
â¨International Premiere
SHU JIA ZUO YE (A Time in Quchi) by Tso chi Chang â¨Taiwan â 2013 â 109 min. â¨with Liang-Yu Yang, Yun-Loong Kuan, Ya-Ruo Lin, Yung-Heng Yen, Shaoyi Jiang, Han-Yi Yao, Chi-Han Chen â¨
Production: Chang tso chi film studio â¨
World Premiere
TABLEAU NOIR (Black Board) by Yves Yersin â¨Switzerland â 2013 â 117 min. â¨Documentary â¨
Production: Ateliers Merlin SĂ rl â¨Co-production: TĂŠlĂŠvision Suisse SSR – TSR â¨Swiss distributor: Filmcoopi ZĂźrich â¨
World Premiere
TOMOGUI (Backwater) by Shinji Aoyama â¨Japan â 2013 â 102 min. â¨with Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinora, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuko Tanaka â¨Production: Stylejam Inc. â¨World Sales: Rezo Films â¨
World Premiere
TONNERRE by Guillaume Brac â¨France â 2013 â 106 min. â¨with Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez â¨
Production: Rectangle Productions â¨Co-production: Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinema â¨World Sales: Wild Bunch â¨First Feature
World Premiere
â¨U RI SUNHI (Our Sunhi) by Sangsoo Hong â¨South Korea â 2013 â 88 min. â¨with Yumi JUNG, Sunkyun LEE, Sangjoong KIM, Jaeyoung JUNG â¨
Production: Jeonwonsa Film Co. â¨World Sales: Finecut Co., Ltd. â¨
World Premiere
by Emmanuel Mouret â¨France â 2013 â 95 min. â¨with Joey Starr, Virginie Ledoyen, Jasmine Trinca â¨
Production: Moby Dick Films â¨World Sales: Kinology â¨
World Premiere
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (Când se lasă seara peste Bucureşti sau metabolism) by Corneliu Porumboiu â¨Romania â 2013 â 93 min. â¨with Bogdan Dumitrache, Diana Avramut, Mihaela Sirbu, Alexandru Papadopol â¨
Production: 42 KM FILM â¨Co-production: Les Films du Worso â¨World Sales: Wild Bunch â¨
World Premiere
Piazza Grande – is the heart of the Festival and its showcase. With its giant screen, one of the biggest in Europe, endowed with truly exceptional projection quality, the Piazza Grande is one of the finest open-air venues in the world. An enormous space that can seat an audience of up to 8,000 and makes every screening a unique event. The programming on the Piazza Grande offers prestigious screenings, most of them world, international or European premieres.
2 GUNS by Baltasar KormĂĄkur â¨United States â 2013 â 109 min. â¨with Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Edward James Olmos â¨Production: Marc Platt, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Adam Siegel, George Furla, Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby, â¨Co-production: Universal Pictures, Emmett/Furla Film â¨World Sales: Foresight â¨Swiss distributor: The Walt Disney Company (Switzerland) GmbH
â¨International Premiere – Opening Film
â¨VIJAY AND I by Sam Garbarski â¨Belgium/Luxembourg/Germany â 2013 â 96 min. â¨with Moritz Bleibtreu, Patricia Arquette, Danny Pudi â¨Production: Entre Chien et Loup, Samsa Film â¨
Co-production: Pandora Film, FĂŠdĂŠration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bruxellimage, RTBF (Belgian television) â¨World Sales: The Match Factory â¨Swiss distributor: Xenix Film â¨
World Premiere
â¨LA VARIABILE UMANA (The Human Factor) by Bruno Oliviero â¨Italy â 2013 â 83 min. â¨with Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Sandra Ceccarelli, Alice Raffaelli â¨
Production: Lumière & Co Srl, Invisibile Film, Rai Cinema â¨World Sales: Intramovies
â¨World Premiere
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WRONG COPS by Quentin Dupieux â¨France/United States â 2012 â 94 min. â¨with Mark Burnham, Marilyn Manson, Grace Zabriskie
â¨Production: Realitism Films â¨Co-production: Rubber Films, CTB Film Company â¨World Sales: Le Pacte â¨Swiss distributor: Praesens Film AG â¨
World Premiere
â¨WEâRE THE MILLERS by Rawson Marshall Thurber â¨United States â 2013 â 111 min. â¨with Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, Ed Helms â¨Presentation: New Line Cinema â¨Production: New Line Cinema, Newman/Tooley Films, Slap Happy
Productions, Heyday Films, Bender-Spink â¨World Sales: Warner Bros. Picturesâ¨Swiss distributor: Warner Bros. (Transatlantic) Inc., Schweiz
â¨International Premiere
â¨THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES ¡ JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN (Kvinden i buret) by Mikkel Nørgaard â¨Denmark/Germany/Sweden â 2013 â 97 min. â¨with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Søren Pilmark, Troels Lyby â¨
Production: Zentropa Entertainments 20 ApS â¨Co-production: Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Zentropa International Sweden AB â¨World Sales: TrustNordisk â¨Swiss distributor: Frenetic Films AG â¨
World Premiere
â¨LES GRANDES ONDES (Ă LâOUEST) (Longwave) by Lionel Baier â¨Switzerland/France/Portugal â 2013 â 85 min. â¨with ValĂŠrie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard, Jean-StĂŠphane Bron â¨
Production: Rita Productions, Les Films PellĂŠas, Bande Ă part Films â¨Co-production: Filmes do Tejo II, RTS Radio TĂŠlĂŠvision Suisse â¨World Sales: Films Boutique â¨Swiss distributor: PathĂŠ Suisse â¨
World Premiere
â¨RICH AND FAMOUS by George Cukor â¨United States â 1981 â 117 min. â¨with Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill â¨
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer â¨Retrospettiva George Cukor
â¨GABRIELLE by Louise Archambault â¨Canada â 2013 â 102 min. â¨with Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, MĂŠlissa DĂŠsormeaux-Poulin, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Robert Charlebois â¨
Production: Micro_Scope â¨World Sales: eOne Films International â¨Swiss distributor: Agora Films
â¨World Premiere
â¨LâEXPĂRIENCE BLOCHER by Jean-StĂŠphane Bron â¨Switzerland/France â 2013 â 100 min. â¨Documentary â¨
Production: Bande Ă part Films, Les Films PellĂŠas â¨Co-production: Radio TĂŠlĂŠvision Suisse, SSR SRG â¨World Sales: Les Films du Losange â¨Swiss distributor: Frenetic Films AG â¨World Premiere
â¨GLORIA by SebastiĂĄn Lelio â¨Chile â 2012 â 110 min. â¨with Paulina GarcĂa, Sergio HernĂĄndez â¨Production: Fabula â¨World Sales: Funny Balloons â¨Swiss distributor: Filmcoopi ZĂźrich AG
â¨MR. MORGANâS LAST LOVE by Sandra Nettelbeck â¨Germany/Belgium â 2013 â 116 min. â¨with Michael Caine, ClĂŠmence PoĂŠsy, Justin Kirk, Jane Alexander, Gillian Anderson â¨Production: Bavaria Pictures GmbH, Kaminski.Stiehm.Film GmbH, Senator Film KĂśln â¨Co-production: Scope Pictures, MMLL GmbH & Co. KH, Eberhard MĂźller Filmproduktion, A-Films Belgium â¨World Sales: Global Screen GmbH â¨Swiss distributor: Praesens-Film AG
â¨BLUE RUIN by Jeremy Saulnier â¨United States â 2013 â 92 min. â¨with Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb â¨Production: Filmscience
â¨World Sales: Memento Films International â¨Swiss distributor: Praesens-Film AG
â¨ABOUT TIME by Richard Curtis â¨United Kingdom â 2013 â 123 min. â¨with Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander â¨
Production: Working Title Films â¨World Sales: Universal Pictures International â¨Swiss distributor: Universal Pictures International Switzerland
â¨FITZCARRALDO by Werner Herzog â¨Germany/Peru â 1982 â 157 min. â¨with Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, JosĂŠ Lewgoy, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Paul Hittscher â¨Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion â¨Co-production: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) â¨World Sales: Werner Herzog Film â¨Pardo dâonore Swisscom to Werner Herzog
â¨SUR LE CHEMIN DE LâĂCOLE (On The Way to School) by Pascal Plisson â¨France â 2013 â 77 min. â¨Documentary â¨Production: Winds â¨Co-production: Herodiade, Ymagis â¨World Sales: Wild Bunch â¨Swiss distributor: Praesens Film AG
â¨International Premiere – Closing Film
Concorso Cineasti del present – is dedicated to emerging directors from all over the world and devoted to first and second features. 16 feature films screening as world or international premieres, from documentary to fiction, compete for the Pardo d'oro Cineasti del presente.
BUQĆLĆMUN (Chameleon) by Elvin Adigozel and Ru Hasanov â¨Azerbaijan/France/Russia â 2013 â 72 min. â¨with Farid Bahramov, Emin Seyfulla, Elvin Adigozel, Mubariz Khalilov, Vali Ibadov â¨
Production: Adari films â¨Co-production: Arizona Productions, Vita aktiva â¨World Sales: Arizona Productions â¨First Feature
World Premiere
â¨COSTA DA MORTE (Coast of Death) by Lois PatiĂąo â¨Spain â 2013 â 80 min. â¨Documentary â¨
Production: Zeitun films â¨First Feature
World Premiere
â¨FORTY YEARS FROM YESTERDAY by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck â¨United States â 2013 â 80 min. â¨with Chelsea Word, Bruce Graham, Rebekah Mott, Elizabeth Overton, Matthew Valdez â¨
Production: Four thirty-three pictures, Paper Moon Films â¨First Feature
International Premiere
L'HARMONIE (Harmony) by Blaise Harrison â¨France/Switzerland â 2013 â 60 min.
â¨Production: Les Films du Poisson â¨Co-production: Bande Ă part Films â¨World Sales: Doc&Film â¨First Feature
World Premiere
LE SENS DE L'HUMOUR (Sense of Humor) by Marilyne Canto â¨France â 2013 â 89 min. â¨with Marilyne Canto, Antoine Chappey, Samson Dajczman â¨
Production: Christmas in July â¨World Sales: Films Distribution â¨First Feature
World Premiere
â¨â¨LOS INSĂLITOS PECES GATO (The Amazing Cat Fish) by Claudia Sainte-Luce â¨Mexico â 2013 â 87 min. â¨with Ximena Ayala, Lisa Owen, Sonia Franco, Wendy GuillĂŠn, Andrea Baeza â¨
Production: Canibal Networks â¨World Sales: Pyramide Internationalâ¨Swiss distributor: Cineworxâ¨First Feature
World Premiere
â¨MANAKAMANA by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez â¨Nepal â 2013 â 117 min. â¨Documentary â¨Production: Sensory Ethnography Laboratory â¨First Feature – World Premiere
MOUTON by Gilles Deroo and Marianne Pistone â¨France â 2012 â 100 min. â¨with David Merabet, Michael Mormentyn, Cindy Dumont, Benjamin Cordier, Emmanuel Legrand â¨Production: BOULE DE SUIF production â¨First Feature
World Premiere
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ROXANNE by Valentin Hotea â¨Romania/Hungary â 2013 â 97 min. â¨with Čerban Pavlu, Diana Dumbravă, Mihai Călin, Adrian Văncică, Valeria Seciu â¨
Production: Hi Film Productions â¨Co-production: Abis Studio, Cor Leonis Ltd. â¨World Sales: Films Boutique â¨
First Feature – World Premiere
â¨SAI NAM TID SHOER (By the River) by Nontawat Numbenchapol â¨Thailand â 2013 â 71 min. â¨
Production: Mobile lab project co.ltd, Ok-pi-dern co.ltd â¨
World Premiere
â¨THE DIRTIES by Matt Johnson â¨Canada/United States â 2013 â 83 min. â¨with Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Krista Madison, David Matheson â¨
Production: 7800002 canada inc. â¨Co-production: Xyz films â¨
First Feature – International Premiere
â¨THE SPECIAL NEED by Carlo Zoratti â¨Germany/Italy â 2013 â 82 min. â¨Documentary
â¨Production: DETAiLFILM â¨Co-production: Videomante
â¨First Feature – World Premiere
â¨THE STONE by Se-rae CHO â¨South Korea â 2013 â 113 min. â¨with Dong-in CHO, Roi-ha KIM, Won-sang PARK â¨
Production: SHINE PICTURES â¨World Sales: FINECUT CO., LTD â¨
First Feature – World Premiere
THE UGLY ONE by Eric Baudelaire â¨France/Lebanon/Japan â 2013 â 101 min. â¨with Rabih MrouĂŠ, Juliette Navis, Manal Khader â¨
Production: Poulet-Malassis â¨
World Premiere
THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS çŠäšĺ by Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt
United States â 2013 â 97 min. â¨with Jennifer Kim, Szeming Celia Au, Andrea Chen, Teresa Hui, Haruka Hashimoto â¨
Production: Alex Carver and Daniel Schmidt
â¨First Feature – World Premiere
YUAN FANG (Distant) by Zhengfan Yangâ¨China â 2013 â 88 min. â¨with Shaokai Chen, Tuzhen Chen, Jiayan He, Yuanhao Luo, Cheng Chen â¨
Production: Burn the Film Production House â¨
First Feature – World Premiere