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Locarno Open Doors: Winners Of Industry Sidebar Announced, African Continent Set At 2025 Focus


Locarno Open Doors has set the African continent as it's focus from 2025.

While speaking on Locarno’s Piazza Grande the night before, Patricia Danzi, Director General of Open Doors’ main partner, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), announced the program will focus on the African continent for the next four editions. Jury statement: “For a proposal that portrays often overlooked post-war processes, with a very strong artistic approach, a non-chronological storytelling and with a poetic and intimate vision that renews the idea of genre. CHF 5,000 to La levedad de ella by Rosa María Rodriguez, produced by Armando Capó Ramos (GatoRosafilms), Martha Orozco (Martfilms) and Cristina Gallego (Ciudad Lunar), Cuba / Mexico / Colombia

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