Locarno Film Festival

A crazy coming-of-age story in which Orthodox monks teach kung fu in the Soviet Union.

For a couple living self-sufficiently, installing a wind turbine becomes a test of their relationship.

New York rich kid James is forced to choose between his drug fuled lifestyle and the last chance to redeem his relationship with his mother.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

Immerse yourself in the summer of a carefree teenager who suddenly loses her best friend and realizes that nothing lasts forever.

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathians, to Dracula.

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

Albert Serra stages Jesus' Way of the Cross in his usual subversive style.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

A riveting psychological horror film that delves into the depths of human obedience and naivety.

Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.

According to Kant, physicians must walk a tightrope. In this film, the doctor teeters on the wire while treating his own mother.

Rosa von Praunheim recounts the fascinating biography of the revolutionary sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld and his groundbreaking findings.

Victims of their circumstances: The two best friends Emma and Anaïs face very different futures.

Adèle's attempt to recover from a breakup leads to surprising results. Jumping from one lover to the next, she realizes that they are similar.

A Massachusetts woman who tirelessly cares for her bedridden cousin and her drug-addicted son finds herself grappling with painful memories.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Photojournalist Camille goes to the Central African Republic to cover a brewing civil war. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

This delicate ensemble film tells the story of the Leblancs and their well-kept family secret.

Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.

Carefully arranged portrait of Icelandic society shows protagonists from all walks of life.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

Buddhist noir: In Buthan the undercover police officer Kinley investigates the disappearance of a Buddhist abbess, who is known as "the demon".

100 years ago, Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, choreographed a solo dance to deal with the traumatic accidental death of her children.

French drama about love, economic dependence and gender roles.

Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene.

Marianna is an 40-year-old woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a gender reassignment.

Four characters will meet, love and separate in Gare du Nord, one of the busiest train stations in Europe.

After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.

Shadi returns to Nazareth to fulfill his duty (WAJIB) as a big brother, where simmering conflicts await.

After an eco-disaster, the abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical city of Bethlehem was transformed into a huge orchard.

After an insurance fraud, Jimmy flees to Cambodia, where his partner and mentor Marvin has also gone into hiding - and still owes him his share.

Cult director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Steiner) created a swan song to a dying genre with his debut. Starring Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara.

An actress, a painter and 3 classically trained musicians came to New York from Belgrade before the Balkan War to pursue their art and their dream.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

In the midst of the Mozambican civil war, a train is the only lifeline and becomes the setting for stories of love and hate.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

A woman walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

The investor watches over the gated community of Beauval like Big Brother from 1984.

Horrifying videos of the Syrian civil war, taken with mobile phones in the besieged city of Homs, show the horrors of war unfiltered.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.

After serving his prison sentence, trucker Alain is forced to temporarily move back to his mother's house and old habits will re-emerge.

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through ...

Stavros, a shopkeeper in the Akadimia Platonos district in Athens, spends his life complaining about foreigners and hanging out in front of his shop with ...

Sid got involved with the wife of a crime boss and is will have to pay for it. He flees to the mountains and finds there what was denied him in his hedonistic ...

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.

A rough roller coaster ride with unique survivalists in a world full of challenges and beauty - from the sewers of Las Vergas to Mars.

Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.

When a newcomer arrives at the home for difficult youngsters, a compassionate social worker is plagued by memories from her past.

Aki Kaurismäki's heart-warming dramedy has won over 15 international awards.

Five long-time friends hatch a daring scheme to escape from their old people's home. Their plan is to become roomates in their own place.

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split.

Alice works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be a granddaughter in need ...

One winter evening, at an empty gas station, young country musician Sami meets beautiful Julia, who has run out of gas. Sami, who’s been living alone ...

The documentary shows the training path of nurses in France - with all its ups and downs.

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.

Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own ...

After a professional setback, the architect Alexandre and his wife Aliénor, a psychologist, travel to Italy to complete his book.

Exploring Lisbon, a French actress delves into love, guilt, and redemption, mirroring her 17th-century role's emotional journey.

King is a cantankerous ex-boxer and bar owner who is immune to love - until he meets a 16-year-old girl. Serbian-German-Swedish drama about emotions and ...

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?

Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.

At 19, after finishing the army, Imri moves from a peripheral city in Israel to Tel Aviv. All the while, he saves up so that he can move to Japan.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the mysterious life of a mystical man called Monsieur Oscar.

Filming the unfilmable: From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii. Working ...

Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...

They call him Mr. Light. He's kind and thoughtful, and like moths to a flame, people are drawn to him - except the corrupt mayor, who's approval he needs ...

Animals arrive at the slaughterhouse at night. Before dawn, a young man leads them to their death, while his beloved dog watches the process.

Hounded deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman.

Vittorio De Sica 1948's classic social drama.

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan leads a secret life of addiction that most of his students ...

In a poor area of Medellín, Columbia, 12 year-old Kevin sells poems and reads them aloud to people, who can't read.

A young woman painfully says Good Bye First Love as she and her partner mature and choose different life paths. But it’s a hard way. Fifteen-year-old ...

Drama about Ellen, an air stewardess seeking meaning to what she realizes. Ellen seeks a place to belong and finds it in a group of young activists of ...

A Peruvian comedy about a cold and uptight pawnbroker, who suddenly learns about warmth, love and compassion in the form of a baby and a woman. In short, ...

An offbeat love story with Maggie Gyllenhaal in an outstanding performance as a secretary who enters into an S/M relationship with her boss (James Spader). Following ...

The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.

"Dying. What's so brave about it? It's a feat pulled off by everyone".

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a doc road movie that takes him to Europe and the U.S.

Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.

To atone for the injustice of colonialism, a revolutionary group attacks a Swiss bank.

The Partyqueen Nico is a luxury girl from a wealthy home. At a party she falls in love with Paco, who is her complete opposite.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer.

Pietro's wife has died. When fall comes, the busy TV executive has to bring his little daughter to school. And ends up staying there, waiting on a bench, ...