Locarno 2023 Festival Recap

Docs in Orbit

The 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland has come to a close, but we are still thinking about many of the films we encountered there. For our recap, we invited a cross-section of attendees to share their favorite film discoveries.
Included in this episode are films from nearly every section of the festival - the Concorso Internazionale (International Competition), the Concorso Cineasti del presente section (Filmmakers of the Present), the Pardi di domani (Leopards of Tomorrow, competition for short films), Semaine de la critique (Critics’ Week) and Fuori concorso (Out of Competition section).

• Aylin Gökmen, Docs in Orbit Co-Producer and the director of EVER SINCE, I HAVE BEEN FLYING on THE ISLAND by Julien Pujol, and I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND REPEAT TO MYSELF by Giselle Lin
• Julien Pujol, director of THE ISLAND on THE INVISIBLE FIGHT by Rainer Sarnet
• Giselle Lin, director of I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND REPEAT TO MYSELF on DREAMING & DYING by Nelson Yeo
• Nelson Yeo, director of DREAMING & DYING on DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD by Radu Jude
• Arya Cagin from EVER SINCE, I HAVE BEEN FLYING on SCORCHED EARTH by Markela Kontaratou
• Markela Kontaratou, director of SCORCHED EARTH on CONANN by Bertrand Mandico
• Anna Joos, filmmaker and academic on THE FIRST DAYS by Stéphane Breton
• Ruth Baettig from Film Explorer on BEEN THERE by Corina Schwingruber Ilić and THE HUMAN SURGE 3 by Eduardo Williams

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