Giona A. Nazzaro will function Inventive Director of the Locarno Movie Competition for an additional three years following a contract extension introduced this afternoon by the Swiss competition.
Nazzaro, a well-liked critic, movie historian, and former head of the Venice Movie Competition’s Critics’ Week, has been Locarno’s chief since 2021. Beneath the extension, he’ll stick with the competition till 2028.
“I wish to thank President Maja Hoffmann and the complete Board of Administrators of the Locarno Movie Competition for the belief and esteem positioned in me and within the group that I’ve the privilege of main,” Nazzaro mentioned in an announcement.
“To pursue collectively the work of those first 5 years, in a second filled with unheard-of transformations within the audiovisual sector and movie trade – at a fancy historic second – is an thrilling problem that may encourage us confidently in direction of our eightieth anniversary.”
The competition’s 2025 version runs August 6-16. Final yr, the competition’s prime prize was picked up by Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė along with her debut characteristic, Poisonous.
Directed by Bliuvaitė from a screenplay she additionally wrote, the movie follows two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, who type a novel bond at an area modeling faculty, the place the promise of a greater life pushes ladies to violate their our bodies in more and more excessive methods.
The competition’s 2025 rep programme will give attention to British postwar cinema. Locarno has teamed with the BFI Nationwide Archive, Cinémathèque suisse, and Studiocanal on the retrospective, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.
This system will span the work of well-known British filmmakers like David Lean, Carol Reed, and Powell and Pressburger to lesser-known administrators like Seth Holt and Lance Consolation. Ladies filmmakers engaged on British shores like Muriel Field, Wendy Toye, Margaret Tait, and Jill Craigie in addition to American filmmakers exiled to the UK by the anti-Communist blacklist like Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, and Edward Dmytryk will even characteristic.
