The film will be screened in an absolutely picturesque setting: next to Lake Maggiore, under the stars in the Piazza Grande square with a capacity of 8,000 spectators.
One of the oldest international film festivals is the Locarno Film Festivalwhich will be held this year from 3 to 13 August.
Premiere in the 75th edition action comedy will do “Bullet Train” by David Leachstarring Brad Pitt and a select group of “select killers” with Michael Shannon (Michael Shannon), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Joey King (Joey King) and Sandra Bullock (Sandra Bullock).
The film will be screened in an absolutely picturesque setting: next to Lake Maggiore, under the stars in the Piazza Grande square with a capacity of 8,000 spectators.
Other films that will make their appearance in Piazza Grande will be Laurie Anderson’s Home Of The Brave, British director Thomas Hardiman’s Medusa Deluxe and German director Kilian Riedhof’s French-language drama You Will Not Have My Hate, based on in the memoir of a man and his son after he lost his wife in the 2015 Bataclan terrorist attack.
Piazza Grande will also host a series of tributes to the actor Matt Dillon (Matt Dillon), producer Jason Blum (Jason Blum) and directors Laurie Anderson (Laurie Anderson) and Kelly Reichardt (Kelly Reichardt).
The festival itself also announced in a statement that it will honor international Greek director Kostas Gavras for his contribution to the 7th Art on August 11 and he will participate in a panel discussion the following day. During the event, two of the director’s lesser-known films will be screened: the noir “Killer’s Apartment” (1965) and the war film “Un home de trop” (1967), which is his second film.
More generally, the festival will screen 226 films from 113 countries, among 4,245 submissions according to Deadline.
“The selection of films we have assembled, after watching and evaluating over 3,000 films, is intended to be the mark of an era and a cinema in action,” said Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the festival. “Of a historical era moving simultaneously in many directions and a cinema that explores the problems facing the world and how we can live in it responsibly and sustainably,” concluded Giona A. Nazzaro.
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