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Locarno 2024: Industry Attendance Soars Amid Sales Agent Feeding Frenzy
Attendance soared at Locarno Pro, the Swiss Fest’s industry area, as sales agents swooped on multiple titles. The big question is why.
In all, at this year’s Locarno, Variety reported deals – pick ups, sales – on six movies with genre elements – “Sew Torn,” “Fréwaka,” “Electric Child,” “Agora,” “Moon” and “Red Path ” – as many as it did on arthouse drama titles, also six. “It’s the mythical and political Irish context of “Fréwaka” that makes it stick,” Variety says of “Frewaka.” “Red Path” begins with a ghastly act of inhuman jihadism, haunting characters and spectators for the rest of the film, which plays out as a coming of age drama. *MoreThan Films closed a sales rights pickup deal on the eve of the festival on “Listen to the Voices,” a memorable take on the wonder and violence of French Guiana, adding a few days later, Denise Fernandes’ Cape Verde-set debut “Hanami.”
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