LOCARNO 2026 LINEUP: New Films From Hong Sangsoo, Albert Serra, and More Slated for 79th Edition
With Switzerland having advanced in the 2026 World Cup, the country is about to celebrate another huge event just around the corner. The Locarno International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, featuring 233 films from 69 countries, including 103 world premieres. Among these world premieres are Hong Sangsoo’s newest drama Nowhere To Lay My Eyes, Albert Serra’s Sixteen Moments of My Life, Giovanni Tortorici’s second feature (and Luca Guadagnino-produced) Keticé, Ann Oren’s Objet, Denis Côté’s Nobody’s Violence, and more. The festival will be held August 5-15.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno’s artistic director, said in a statement, “An adventurous selection, full of surprises, which tackles the challenges of the present without ever sacrificing the pleasures of storytelling and entertainment. Ours is a selection of films deliberately set against the complexities of the present day, which explores and reflects on the transformations currently taking place within cinema and in the wider audiovisual sector. Cinema, then – in all its forms and possibilities. A cinema that curiously explores genres and styles in search of that spark of the future we all need.”
See the full lineup below and more info here.
Piazza Grande
THE GREEN EYES (opening film)
By Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh
France, Belgium, Sweden
ARMONY
By Dario Albertini
Italy
WILD AT HEART
By David Lynch
U.S.
I IS ANOTHER
By Felix Randau
Germany, Austria
DANCES WITH WOLVES
By Kevin Costner
USA, United Kingdom
THE INVITE
By Olivia Wilde
U.S.
TAXI DRIVER
By Martin Scorsese
U.S.
PAPER TIGER
By James Gray
U.S.
FRANK & LOUIS by Petra Volpe
Switzerland, U.K.
CONGO BOY
By Rafiki Fariala
Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo,
DOWN THE ARM OF GOD
By Peter Brunner
France, U.S.
THE CHILEAN
By Sergio Castro-San Martín
Italy, Chile, Switzerland
LOVE LESSONS
By Martin Provost
France, Belgium
ALL ABOUT CORINNE
By Marc Fitoussi
France, Belgium
International Competition
RIVERBANK
By Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho
Brazil, Germany
WANDERING TREES
By Salvatore Mereu
Italy
BRAVE NEW LOVE
By Maria Bäck
Denmark, Sweden, Greece
D’ICI LÀ
By Sarah Leonor
France
I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING
By Isabelle Stever
Germany, Ukraine
KETTICÈ
By Giovanni Tortorici
Italy
FAR FROM THE TREES
By Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Spain, Peru, Italy
MANHUNT
By Wayne Wapeemukwa
Canada
YOU DON’T BELONG HERE
By Florin Șerban
Romania
NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES
By Hong Sangsoo
South Korea
O JACARÉ
By Basil Da Cunh
Switzerland, Portugal
OBJET A
By Ann Oren
Germany, Luxembourg, Greece
DONKEY PRINCESS
By Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
Chile, France, Uruguay, Netherlands, Germany
World premiere
REHMAT
By Gurvinder Singh
India, France
THE HOUSE ON THE MOON
By Nelson Yeo
Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, Indonesia
THÍNH GIÁC (HEARING) by Lê Bảo
Vietnam, Singapore, Norway, France, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan
NOBODY’S VIOLENCE
By Denis Côté
Canada
Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present)
AT NIGHT
By Beatrice Gibson
U.K., France
DEMONS
By Natalka Vorozhbyt
Ukraine, Poland
DESTROY ALL GIRLS
By Erin Vassilopoulos
U.S.
EGO REACH WE ALL (OUR TIME WILL COME)
By Amartei Armar
Ghana, France
HANABI (FIRE FLOWER)
By Ana Vaz
France, Brazil
THE ILLUSION OF AN EVERLASTING SUMMER
By Alessandra Sanguinetti
Argentina, U.S.
SUMMER MEADOW
By Naël Khleifi
Belgium, France
THE DAYS OFF
By Lucila Mariani
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France
MAGIC ATLAS
By SUN Xun
Singapore
TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO
By Luise Donschen
Germany
REVOLUTIONARIES NEVER DIE
By Mohanad Yaqubi
Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON
By Nicolaas Schmidt
Germany
SMALL TALK
By Mateo Ybarra
Switzerland
TEAR GAS
By Uta Beria
Georgia, France, Germany
IN ALL MY JOURNEYS I AM RETURNING
By Manuel Ponce de León
Colombia
