Personal 68th Locarno Film Festival List
Films that are not on IMDb:
• Le Dernier Passage (The Final Passage), Dir.: Pascal Magontier (2015)
• Fragments du paradis (About Heaven), Dir.: Stéphane Goël (2015)
• Erlkönig (Erlking), Dir.: Georges Schwizgebel (2015)
• Garoto (Kid), Dir.: Júlio Bressane (2015)
• Origem Do Mundo (Origin of the World), Dir.: Moa Batsow (2015)
• Vivere alla grande (Living the High Life), Dir.: Fabio Leli (2015)
• Heliopolis (The Violin Teacher), Dir.: Sérgio Machado (2015)
• Le Dernier Passage (The Final Passage), Dir.: Pascal Magontier (2015)
• Fragments du paradis (About Heaven), Dir.: Stéphane Goël (2015)
• Erlkönig (Erlking), Dir.: Georges Schwizgebel (2015)
• Garoto (Kid), Dir.: Júlio Bressane (2015)
• Origem Do Mundo (Origin of the World), Dir.: Moa Batsow (2015)
• Vivere alla grande (Living the High Life), Dir.: Fabio Leli (2015)
• Heliopolis (The Violin Teacher), Dir.: Sérgio Machado (2015)
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- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsMeryl StreepKevin KlineMamie GummerA musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family.
- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaStarsShinsuke HiranoKoichi WatanabeYukiko WatanabeIn the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population's rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women, but for a few years now, some of the factories have had to use foreigners in order to keep functioning. Hirano oyster factory has never employed any outsiders but finally decides to bring in two workers from China. Will all the employees get along?
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsCécile de FranceIzïa HigelinNoémie LvovskyA young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.
- DirectorSteve ChenStarsNhem SokunLida DuchHak KimLida sells modern real estate developments to the new middle class in Phnom Penh. Her relationship with her boyfriend is deteriorating so she escapes to the beach, but finds there that the specters from the past haunt in sublime ways.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsBurghart KlaußnerRonald ZehrfeldLilith StangenbergThe story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
- DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsJake GyllenhaalRachel McAdamsOona LaurenceAfter a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career.
- DirectorClaire SimonA portrait of the people who pass through or take up residence in Paris's Le Bois de Vincennes park.
- DirectorJudd ApatowStarsAmy SchumerBill HaderBrie LarsonHaving thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
- DirectorElisabeth ScharangStarsJohannes KrischCorinna HarfouchBirgit MinichmayrJack Unterweger was and remains an enigma, elevated to celebrity status and acclaimed for his underworld-plunging poetry and fiction before being charged with the murders of 11 prostitutes in Austria and abroad.
- DirectorJulio Hernández CordónStarsDiego CalvaEduardo Eliseo MartinezShvasti CalderónIn a contemporary Mexico City, two skating lovers develop their relationship at the same time as they try to carry on business with drug mafia.
- DirectorPhilippe Le GuayStarsJean RochefortSandrine KiberlainLaurent LucasAlthough he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. His moments of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming increasingly more frequent, but he stubbornly refuses to admit that anything is wrong.
- DirectorKarim SayadAlgiers, 2015. Adlan and Terrorist navigate the Sacré Coeur neighborhood, desperately trying to make a few dinars.
- DirectorMatthias SahliStarsUrs-Peter WoltersNicole SteinerWalter MenziHausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to house arrest for six months. An ankle monitor called Percy assists him during his arrest. But one day he realizes with horror how far Percy goes in its function.
- DirectorJela HaslerIn a dry, barren landscape, a herd of cattle is grazing, accompanied by dogs, looked after by cowboys. Step by step the seemingly peaceful place starts to prove fallacious to the viewer - while the cows end their day as it begun.
- DirectorCaterina MonaStarsGiorgia WurthStefano PesceAlan CerutiDavide, Carla and Giulia were three. Davide, Carla and Max are three. But their peace of mind is unraveled by the news of two girls found after being kept prisoner for years in a cellar. The information reopens a wound for Carla and gives Davide new hope. What happened on that day, ten years ago, that changed the couple's lives forever?
- DirectorLora Mure-RavaudStarsLaure SauretAbderrahmane CoulibalyEdmond HenchozLouise returns to her chalet in Switzerland. Abder is in the north of France. They talk via Skype for the first time. A virtual conversation that will last far into the night...
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsIrdens ExantusCaroline TrudelPatrick HuardAn idealistic young Haitian travels to rural Quebec to intern for an independent Member of Parliament when a national debate erupts that finds the MP holding the tie-breaking vote.
- DirectorRick AlversonStarsGregg TurkingtonJohn C. ReillyTye SheridanEn route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsRanbir KapoorAnushka SharmaKaran JoharAn ordinary man goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a 'Big Shot'.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsMaria Luisa AcetoAngela La GrecaLuciano La GrecaAn agricultural setting in the mid-14th century. Vineyards and olive groves stretch as far as the eye can see. In the distance, there is a farmstead, simple but not poor. The family that lives there consists of father, mother and an eight-year old son, Nino. As farmers, they have everything they need and nothing more. The rhythm of their days is set by the hours tolled by the bells, the passing of the seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, the rain and wind, the searing heat of summer. Nino wakes at dawn and takes the goats to pasture. Traversing archaic, sublime landscapes, he walks as if on an immensely long journey down a path of knowledge.
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsMarthe KellerMax RiemeltBruno GanzJo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.
- DirectorLionel BaierStarsPatrick LappCarmen MauraIvan GeorgievDavid Miller is sick and has decided to end it all. But despite choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing goes according to plan. Does death lie at the end of this night which is supposed to be his last? Based on a true story, vanity isn't simply just a deadly sin.
- DirectorChung LeeStarsHsiao-chuan ChangSonia SuiRegina WanA-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No. 1, Greenfield Lane", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic. Lin helps him get rid of the ghosts, but the laundry hides secrets more than she bargains for. What "No. 1, Greenfield Lane" runs away from turn out to be the ghosts from his past.
- DirectorBen RiversStarsÓliver LaxeAt the heart of the film's multiple narratives is an adaptation of A Distant Episode, the savage short story set in Morocco by American author Paul Bowles, first published in 1947. Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, "The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers" observes its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe, directing his own film Las Mimosas in Morocco, only to walk off set and into Rivers' narrative. Shot against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the Sahara, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, Laxe is drawn into a hallucinatory and perilous adventure of cruelty and madness to form a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself. "In a café in Morocco, about 50 years ago, Paul Bowles overheard a man, high on kif, say the title of this film. And so he wrote a story around this statement, a story that moves between different planes of reality. I read the story, and the story behind the story, and the strange phrase kept circling around my mind, creating images and dreams. This film is a manifestation of these images, along with obsessions about cinema and how far we will go to make it". Oliver Laxe.
- DirectorAlfonso Gomez-RejonStarsThomas MannRJ CylerOlivia CookeHigh schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsLou CastelPaola PitagoraMarino MaséA young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
- DirectorPavel G. VesnakovStarsAleksandar AleksievDeyan DonkovYana TitovaThe sudden death of his father urges ZEUS (20), now head of the family, to organize a decent funeral. Zeus decides to contact his older half-brother VASSIL (38), a former criminal, who left the family years ago, because of a severe argument with his father. Vassil has no feelings left for his father and also no intentions to help his younger brother, who desperately is looking for money. Finally he agrees to help Zeus, but on the road they get stopped by a police officer.
- DirectorKiro RussoStarsAna ColqueTeo GuzmanWarita Guzman
- DirectorOsi WaldStarsYaron MotolaAn Israeli actor lands a supporting role in a major Hollywood production. He goes on an inner journey giving in to his fears on the day of his departure to the "other" Promised Land.
- DirectorTom Rosenberg
- DirectorXacio BañoStarsXosé BaratoRocío GonzálezEcho's voice was stolen and she was sentenced to repeat what everyone else said. Trapped, she decides to take shelter in a cave and to distance herself from human touch.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittShailene WoodleyMelissa LeoThe NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.