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Locarno Head Giona A. Nazzaro On Embracing The “Diverse World” With Shah Rukh Khan Honor And Remaining Competitive On The Festival Calendar
Locarno Film Festival runs from August 7 — 17.
Across the festival’s official competitions, you can find new works by arthouse leaders like Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing, Radu Jude, and Ben Rivers — all world premieres. Hollywood will also be present on the Piazza Grande with an expansive retrospective titled The Lady with the Torch set to be mounted at the fest to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures. Neapolitan filmmaker Gianluca Jodice’s latest feature The Flood, a historical drama about the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s reign opens the festival on August 7.
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