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Yesterday a first taste of the festival with the screening of the film that crowned the duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in the new genre. Tomorrow, the look of the successful world premiere co-production between Switzerland, Germany and Czech Republic titled GOTTHARD. But let's get to the news this year that are synthesized as well by the artistic director Carlo Chatrian: "I dedicate to Michael Cimino and Abbas Kiarostami this edition. Not just as a thank you for the emotions that have given to the Festival audience, but also because they represent cinema that is at home in Locarno. Cinema Law that reality and transfigures, film that is not afraid to be thought even when facing great stories that "small" are never, cinema that uses the whole tone scale, the wide field to the foreground. Film that comes as a breath of wind, and take you away with it ". In tribute to Abbas Kiarostami is presented posthumously his laboratory in Cuba: 7 short films that communicate with the last work created by the great filmmaker who died recently. In the international competition were the directors who come from Egypt, from Thailand, Bulgaria and Portugal, Argentina and United States with the same characteristic that their protagonists are all on the move. As if driven by a wind that breathes within them, they move from one end of a continent like the brilliant "revisiting Shakespearean" proposed by Piñeiro, or restless in the folds of a city like Marija in the movie. they move, despite themselves, in time, as it happens all'ornitologo João Pedro Rodrigues or mother, described by Milagros Mumenthaler. They also move when the film is enclosed in a place: It is the case of the beautiful tracking shots that follow the paths of seduction designed by Yousry Nasrallah. And when they are immobilized in a hospital bed with its occupant to move like Scarred Hearts. He asks the Artistic Director: "What tells quest'irrequietezza? Perhaps the desire to see things and people from another point of view, the feeling that a movement is necessary when this does not fit to our desires. So are movies errant those chosen for the edition 69, films seeking their own entity going to fathom the past as is the fascinating portrait proposed by Anocha Suwichakornpong ". The same happens in the Piazza Grande program and other sections. Film

investigating the actuality, such as the path of Islamic radicalization in The Countdown ciel or history in its most famous exile in Latin America traces of Stefan Zweig in Von der Morgenröte or those destined to oblivion as the disappearance of an Indonesian poet under the Suharto regime in Solo, Solitude. Piazza Grande in addition to the two Pre-Festival provides 16 titles. two of which are dedicated to the history of cinema. Therein expected blockbusters and art films, debuts and other established directors. There is also the return of Ken Loach's Palme d'Or 2016 e the grandiose staging conceived by

Ashutosh Gowariker in his Mohenjo Daro, film that will close the 69 edition.

But let the composition of the jury of the International Competition with President Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, assisted by Kate Moran, actress (France / United States), Rafi Pitts, director (Iran), Rodrigo Teixeira, producer (Brazil) e WANG Bing, director (China). Instead the jury of Competition Filmmakers of the Present is chaired by Dario

Silver, assisted by Greek actress Angeliki Papoulia, Antonin Peretjatko, director (France), Cornelia Seitler, producer (Switzerland) e da Sean Price Williams, photography director (United States).

members of the Spanish actress Marian Álvarez, Julie Corman, producer (United States), Shahrbanoo Sadat, director (Afghanistan) and the Swiss director Nicolas Steiner.

transgressive sixties, It will host the 69th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on the Square that nine years ago (2007) Tribute Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the masters with whom he worked, getting the lifetime achievement award. So commented Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Festival: "I am very pleased to reward the extraordinary career of an actress as Jane Birkin, who went through the history of modern cinema with a trajectory that has no equal. Able to ignite the frame with his presence, to decline the word seduction in an original way, to be fashionable while being fashions side, Jane Birkin has created characters who remain impressed by that singular note of lost innocence that will vibrate in her ".

Finally Locarno will pay tribute to the beloved Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli which this year celebrated 55 year career and her "70 times the spring". She will be handed over in Piazza Grande, Friday 5 August, il Leopard Club Award 2016.