The lineup for the 75th-anniversary edition of the festival has been announced, including new films by Helena Wittmann, João Pedro Rodrígues, Aleksandr Sokurov and others, alongside retrospectives, tributes, and much more.
PIAZZA GRANDE
Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit. (Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.) (André Schäfer)
Annie Colère (Blandine Lenoir)
Bullet Train (David Leitch)
Compartiment tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murder) (Costa-Gavras)
Delta (Michele Vannucci)
Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
Last Dance (Delphine Lehericey)
Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman)
My Neighbor Adolf (Leon Prudovsky)
Paradise Highway (Anna Gutto)
Piano Piano (Nicola Prosatore)
Printed Rainbow (Gitanjali Rao)
Semret (Caterina Mona)
Une femme de notre temps (Jean Paul Civeyrac)
Vous n'aurez pas ma haine (You Will Not Have My Hate) (Kilian Riedhof)
Where the Crawdads Sing (Olivia Newman)
CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE
Ariyippu (Declaration) (Mahesh Narayanan)
Balıqlara xütbə (Sermon to the Fish) (Hilal Baydarov)
Bowling Saturne (Saturn Bowling) (Patricia Mazuy)
De noche los gatos son pardos (Valentin Merz)
Gigi la legge (The Adventures of Gigi the Law) (Alessandro Comodin)
Hikayat elbeit elorjowani (Tales of the Purple House) (Abbas Fahdel)
Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
Il Pataffio (Francesco Lagi)
Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Nação Valente (Tommy Guns) (Carlos Conceição)
Piaffe (Ann Oren)
Regra 34 (Rule 34) (Julia Murat)
Serviam – Ich will dienen (Serviam – I Will Serve) (Ruth Mader)
Skazka (Fairytale) (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Stella est amoureuse (Stella in Love) (Sylvie Verheyde)
Stone Turtle (Ming Jin Woo)
Tengo sueños eléctricos (Valentina Maurel)
CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE
A Perfect Day for Caribou (Jeff Rutherford)
Arnon pen nakrian tuayang (Arnold Is a Model Student) (Sorayos Prapapan)
Astrakan (David Depesseville)
Before I Change My Mind (Trevor Anderson)
Den siste våren (Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?) (Franciska Eliassen)
Fragments from Heaven (Adnane Baraka)
Love Dog (Bianca Lucas)
Matadero (Santiago Fillol)
Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês (Our Lady of the Chinese Shop) (Ery Claver)
Petites (Julie Lerat-Gersant)
Petrol (Alena Lodkina)
Sigurno mjesto (Safe Place) (Juraj Lerotić)
Svetlonoc (Nightsiren) (Tereza Nvotová)
Yak Tam Katia? (How Is Katia?) (Christina Tynkevych)
FUORI CONCORSO (OUT OF COMPETITION)
Candy Land (John Swab)
ERICA JONG - Breaking the Wall (Kaspar Kasics)
La dérive des continents (au sud) (Lionel Baier)
LOLA (Andrew Legge)
Nuit obscure - Feuillets sauvages (Les brûlants, les obstinés) (Sylvain George)
Objectos de luz (Love Lights) (Acácio de Almeida, Marie Carré)
Onde Fica Esta Rua? ou Sem Antes Nem Depois (Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After) (João Pedro Rodrígues, João Rui Guerra da Mata)
Prisma (Episode 1 and 2) (Ludovico Bessegato)
Prologos (Mantas Kvedaravičius)
W (Anna Eriksson)
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Opening Film
Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith)
Pardo d’onore Manor to Kelly Reichardt
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
Premio Raimondo Rezzonico to Jason Blum
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
Vision Award Ticinomoda to Laurie Anderson
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson) (Piazza Grande Second Screening)
Pardo alla carriera Ascona-Locarno to Costa-Gavras
Compartiment tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murder) (Costa-Gavras) (Piazza Grande Second Screening)
Un homme de trop (Costa-Gavras)
Lifetime Achievement Award to Matt Dillon
City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Cinéma suisse redécouvert
Die letzten Heimposamenter (Yves Yersin, Eduard Winiger)
The Written Face (Daniel Schmid)
Histoire(s) du cinéma – Heritage Online
Nos vies privées (Denis Côté)
O Dia do Desespero (Manoel de Oliveira)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Las mujeres panteras (René Cardona)
Tempo d’amarsi (Elio Ruffo)
RETROSPECTIVE
Douglas Sirk
Zwei Windhunde (Detlef Sierck)
3 x Ehe (Dreimal Ehe) (Detlef Sierck)
Der eingebildete kranke (Detlef Sierck)
April, April! (Detlef Sierck)
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (Detlef Sierck)
Stützen der Gesellschaft (Detlef Sierck)
Schlussakkord (Detlef Sierck)
Das Hofkonzert (Detlef Sierck)
Zu neuen Ufern (Detlef Sierck)
La Habanera (Detlef Sierck)
Dreiklang (Hans Hinrich)
Accord final (I.R. Bay [Ignacy Rosencranz]) (Supervised by: Detlef Sierck, uncredited)
Boefje (Detlef Sierck)
Hitler’s Madman (Douglas Sirk)
Summer Storm (Douglas Sirk)
A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk)
Lured/Personal Column (Douglas Sirk)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk)
Slightly French (Douglas Sirk)
Shockproof (Douglas Sirk)
The First Legion (Douglas Sirk)
Mystery Submarine (Douglas Sirk)
Thunder on the Hill (Douglas Sirk)
The Lady Pays Off (Douglas Sirk)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk)
No Room for the Groom (Douglas Sirk)
Meet Me at the Fair (Douglas Sirk)
Take Me to Town (Douglas Sirk)
All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
Taza, Son of Cochise (Douglas Sirk)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
Sign of the Pagan (Douglas Sirk)
Captain Lightfoot (Douglas Sirk)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
Battle Hymn (Douglas Sirk)
Interlude (Douglas Sirk)
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk) (Piazza Grande Second Screening)
Sprich zu mir wie der Regen (Douglas Sirk)
Silvesternacht - Ein Dialog (Douglas Sirk)
Bourbon Street Blues (Douglas Sirk)
Homages
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Mirage de la Vie: Portrait de Douglas Sirk (Daniel Schmid)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport)
Douglas Sirk—Hope as in Despair (Roman Hüben)