The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators.
Michael Koch is a Swiss film director and screenwriter.
Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director and screenwriter.
Wild Sky is a 2011 French autobiographical documentary film and cinematic essay/poem directed by Rachid B. and co-written by Florent Mangeot.
The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is an international film festival dedicated to short films held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Adastra Films is a film production and distribution company based in Cannes, France. It was founded in March 2008 by Sébastien Aubert and David Guiraud.
Albert Serra Juanola is a Spanish independent filmmaker and manager of the production company Andergraun Films, set up by Montse Triola primarily to produce Serra's films. He is best known for his films Story of My Death (2013), The Death of Louis XIV (2016), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Pacifiction (2022).
Ruben Amar is a French screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for the independent feature film Swim Little Fish Swim and his two last short films Checkpoint and A Girl Like You With a Boy Like Me.
Isabelle Balducchi, is a French screenwriter, director and producer.
Sarah Van Den Boom is a French animation film director and co-founder of the Papy3D Productions production company.
Olla is a 2019 French short film written and directed by Ariane Labed, her directorial debut.
Bonobo is a 2018 Swiss short film directed by Swiss director Zoel Aeschbacher as a graduation film for his directing studies at the ECAL. The film premiered at 2018 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. It has been selected and awarded at several film festivals including Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival where it won the Best Short Film Spirit Award. In September 2019 the film received the Oscar Qualifying Gold Medal for "Best Narrative" (International) at the Student Academy Awards.
Nefta Football Club is a 2018 live action short film directed by French director Yves Piat. It has been selected and awarded at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival as well as Aspen Shortsfest, where it won the Oscar Qualifying Jury Award for Comedy.
Les Valseurs is a French film production & distribution company founded in 2013 by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty.
Steakhouse is a 2021 Slovenian animated short film directed by Špela Čadež. The short has been presented and won awards in a number of festivals, such as a Jury Mention at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and the Short Film Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival qualifying the short for the 95th Academy Awards and got nominated for an Annie Award in Best Short Subject category in 2022.
The 75th annual Locarno Festival opened on 3 August 2022 in Locarno, Switzerland with film Bullet Train by David Leitch. The 75th edition of Locarno Film Festival celebrated as diamond jubilee edition screened 226 films including 105 world premieres and 3 international premieres. It hosted retrospective screenings of Douglas Sirk's films in its Retrospettiva section.
Ramata-Toulaye Sy is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter.
Astel is a Senegalese-French short drama film, directed by Ramata-Toulaye Sy and released in 2021. The film stars Hawa Mamadou Dia as Astel, a young girl in Senegal who loves to accompany her father when he herds cows, but is forced to conform to more traditional "women's work" with her mother after a shepherd's leering looks at her lead her father to realize she is no longer safe.
Best Queer Short is an annual film award presented by the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, to honor the year's best LGBTQ-themed short film in each year's festival program. The award was created in 2022, as a collaboration between Clermont-Ferrand and the Cannes Film Festival's Queer Palm jury.
Love, Dad is a Czech/Slovak animated short documentary film, directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen and released in 2021. The film centres on her relationship with her father, which was loving in her childhood but became strained and distant as she grew into adulthood.
