The lineup for the 2017 festival has been revealed, including new films by Wang Bing, Radu Jude, Raúl Ruiz and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Jean-Marie Straub, Jacques Tourneur and much more.
PIAZZA GRANDE
Amori che non sonno stare al mondo (Francesca Comencini, Italy)
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, USA)
Chien (Samuel Benchetrit, France/Belgium)
Demain et tous les autres jours (Noémie Lvovsky, France)
Drei Zinnen (Jan Zabeil, Germany/Italy)
Good Time (Ben & Joshua Safdie, USA)
Gotthard - One Life, One Soul (Kevin Merz, Switzerland)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Iceman (Felix Randau, Germany/Italy/Austria)
Laissez bronzer les cadavres (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium/France)
Lola Pater (Nadir Moknèche, France/Belgium)
Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy/France/Germany)
Sparring (Samuel Jouy, France)
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, USA)
The Song of Scorpions (Anup Singh, Switzerland/France/Singapore)
What Happed to Monday (Tommy Wirkola, UK)
CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE
9 Doigts (F.J. Ossang, France)
As Boas Maneiras (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil/France)
Charlseton (Andreï Cretulescu, Romania/France)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson, USA)
En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay, USA)
Freiheit (Jan Speckenbach, Germany/Slovaquie)
Gemini (Aaron Katz, USA)
Gli Asteroidi (Germano Maccioni, Italy)
Goliath (Dominik Locher, Switzerland)
Good Luck (Ben Russell, France/Germany)
La Telenovela Errante (Raúl Ruiz & Valéria Sarmiento, Chile)
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch, USA)
Madame Hyde (Serge Bozon, France/Belgium)
Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing, France/China/Germany)
Qing Ting Zhi Yan (Xu Bing, China/USA)
Ta peau si lisse (Denis Côté, Canada/Switzerland)
Vinterbrødre (Hlynur Pálmason, Denmark/Iceland)
Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/France/Germany/Colombia/Norway)
CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE
3/4 (Ilian Metev, Bulgaria/Germany)
Abschied von den Eltern (Astrid Johanna Ofner, Austria)
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, USA)
Cho-Haeng (Kim Dea-hwan, South Korea)
Dene wos guet geit (Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland)
Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi, USA/Turkey/Netherlands)
Easy (Andrea Magnani, Italy/Ukraine)
Edaha no koto (Ninomiya Ryutaro, Japan)
Il Monte delle Formiche (Ricardo Palladino, Italy)
Le Fort des Fous (Narimane Mari, France/Qatar/Greece/Germany)
Meteorlar (Gürcan Keltek, Netherlands/Turkey)
Milla (Valerie Massadian, France/Portugal)
Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
Sashishi Deda (Ana Urushadze, Georgia/Estonia)
Severina (Felipe Hirsch, Brazil/Uruguay)
Verão Danado (Pedro Cabeleira, Portugal)
SIGNS OF LIFE
Aliens (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
Cocote (Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic/Argentina/Germany)
Era uma vez Brasíla (Adirley Quierós, Brazil)
Filmus (Clément Safra, France)
In Praise of Nothing (Boris Mitic, Serbia/France/Croatia)
Ouroboros (Basma Alsharif, France/Palestine/USA)
Panoptic (Rana Eid, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates)
Phantasiesätze (Dane Komljen, Germany/Denmark)
Surbiles (Giovanni Columbu, Italy)
Zirdziņ, Hallo! (Laila Pakalniņa, Latvia)
Țara moartă (Radu Jude, 2017)
PARDI DI DOMANI - CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE
Agvarim shel Ella (Oren Adaf, Israel)
António e Catarina (Cristina Hanes, Portugal)
Armageddon 2 (Corey Hughes, Cuba)
Boomerang (David Bouttin, France)
British by the Grace of God (Sean Robert Dunn, UK/USA/United Arab Emirates)
Crossing River (Han Yumeng, China)
Das satanische Dickicht - DREI (Willy Hans, Germany)
Douggy (Matvey Fiks, USA/Russia)
Edge of Alchemy (Stacey Steers, USA)
Fine di un amore (Alberto Tamburelli, Italy)
Haine negre (Octav Chelaru, Romania)
Harbour (Stefanie Kolk, Netherlands)
Jeunes Hommes à la fenêtre (Loukianos Moshonas, France)
Kapitalistis (Pablo Muñoz Gomez, Belgium/France)
Loop (Matija Gluscevic, Serbia)
Los perros de Amundsen (Rafael Ramírez, Cuba)
Negah (Farnoosh Samadi, Iran)
Nikog nema (Jelena Gavrilović, Serbia)
Palenque (Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Colombia/USA)
Plus Ultra (Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado, Spain)
Shmama (Miki Polonski, Israel)
Signature (Chikaura Kei, Japan)
Silica (Pia Borg, Australia/UK)
Song X (Mont Tesprateep, Thailand)
Vypusk '97 (Pavlo Ostrikov, Ukraine)
Wateland no. 1: Ardent, Verdant (Jodie Mack, USA)
Zhizn' moego druga (Alexander Zolotukhin, Russia)
PARDI DI DOMANI - CONCORSO NAZIONALE
59 Secondes (Mauro Carraro, Switzerland/France)
A Song From the Future (Tomasso Donati, Switzerland)
Kuckuck (Aline Höchli, Switzerland)
La femme canon (David Toutevoix & Albertine Zullo, Switzerland/France/Canada)
Les histoires vraies (Lucien Monot, Switzerland)
Les Intranquilles (Magdalena Froger, Switzerland)
Parades (Sarah Arnold, France/Switzerland)
Resistance (Laurence Favre, Switzerland)
Rewind Forward (Justin Stoneham, Switzerland)
und alles fällt (Nadine Schwitter, Germany)
Villa Ventura (Roman Hüben, Switzerland)
FUORI CONCORSO - FEATURES
Acta Non Verba (Yvann Yagchi, Switzerland/UK)
Anatomia del miracolo (Alessandre Celesia, France/Italy)
Azmaish (Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan)
Choisir à vingt ans (Villi Hermann, Switzerland/Algeria)
Contes des juillet (Guillaume Brac, France)
Filles du feu (Stéphane Breton, France)
Grandeur et décadence d'un peit commerce de cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland)
Ibi (Andrea Segre, Italy)
Le Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder, France/Switzerland)
Zazidanie (Boris Yukhananov & Aleksandr Shein, Russia)
Nothingwood (Sonia Kronlund, France/Germany)
Nous sommes jeunes et nos jours sont longs (Léa Forest & Cosme Castro, France)
Piazza Grande (Misha Györik & Michael Beltrami, Switzerland)
Pietra tenera (Aurélie Mertenat, Switzerland)
Prototype (Blake Williams, Canada/USA)
Sand und Blut (Matthias Krepp & Angelika Spangel, Austria)
The Reagan Show (Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill,USA)
Willkommen in der Schweiz (Sabine Gisiger, Switzerland)
Immortality For All: A Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism (Anton Vidokle, Kazakhstan/Germany/Russia/USA)
FUORI CONCORSO - SHORTS
A manifesto for the un-communal (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Germany/Israel)
Arrière-saison (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France/Japan)
Granma (Alfie Nze & Daniele Gaglianone, Italy)
O Homem de Trás-os-Montes (Miguel Moraes Cabral, Portugal)
Per una rosa (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
Si loin, si proche (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France/Japan)
Tshweesh (Feyrouz Serhal, Lebanon/Germany/Spain/Qatar)
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
Pardo d'onore Manor Jean-Marie Straub
Cézanne, Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet
Premio Raimondo Rezzonico Michel Merkt
Frost (Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania/France/Poland/Ukraine)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany/France/USA)
Strong Island (Yance Ford, USA/Denmark)
Premio Cinema Ticino Esmé Sciaroni
La pazza gioia (Paolo Virzì, Italy/France)
Omaggio Nastassja Kinski
Cat People (Paul Schrader, USA)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, UK/France/Federal Republic of Germany)
Leopard Club Award Adrien Brody
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, France/Poland/Germany/UK)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, USA)
Cinéma suisse redécouvert
Der Kongress der Pinguine (Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf, Switzerland)
Kleine Freiheit (Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf, Switzerland)
Pardo d'onore Manor Jean-Marie Straub Shorts
Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter