76th Locarno Film Festival 2023
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1. Willkawiwa (El sagrado fuego de los muertos) (2023)
15 min | Short
Jaime dies unexpectedly. From his body, an animal soul escapes and travels the Andean moors in search of his wife's spirit. They set out together on their collective trek to the Land of the Dead.
Director: Pável Quevedo Ullauri | Stars: Wolframio Sinué, Ana Umajinga
2. The Invisible Fight (2023)
115 min | Action, Comedy
A guard on the Soviet-Chinese border who, after surviving a deadly attack, decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.
Director: Rainer Sarnet | Stars: Ursel Tilk, Ester Kuntu, Kaarel Pogga, Indrek Sammul
Votes: 411
3. Until Branches Bend (2022)
98 min | Drama
A feature-length psychological drama about a pregnant cannery worker who, after discovering what she believes to be an invasive insect in a peach, must convince her community that the danger it poses is very real.
Director: Sophie Jarvis | Stars: Grace Glowicki, Alexandra Roberts, Quelemia Sparrow, Lochlyn Munro
Votes: 104
4. Krähen - Nature Is Watching Us (2023)
90 min | Documentary
Crows have been among us ever since the dawn of time. They act in this way since we are the best hunters, cruelest warriors, and wasteful consumers-and their numbers are growing.
Director: Martin Schilt | Stars: Alexander Busch, Bernd Heinrich, Matthias Loretto, John Marzluff
Votes: 58
5. Rossosperanza (2023)
87 min | Drama
Zena, Adriano, Alfonso and Marzia, the outcast children of noble families, are gathered in the exclusive Villa Bianca, where their parents have sent them to become "normal".
Director: Annarita Zambrano | Stars: Matteo De Buono, Leonardo Giuliani, Lorenzo Iannarone, Filippo Librando
Votes: 28
6. Dammi (2023)
16 min | Short, Drama
A man travels back to Paris while navigating his past experiences and weird glimpses of the present in an effort to reconnect with his estranged father. He is forced to face his fears and guilt while also reclaiming his lost Arab identity.
Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Riz Ahmed, Suzy Bemba, Abdel Bendaher
Votes: 24
7. Les soeurs Pathan (2023)
76 min
Sofia and Suzain, two survivors of the 2002 anti-Muslim massacres, are coming of age in Gujarat, India.
Director: Eléonore Boissinot
Votes: 5
8. Und dass man ohne Täuschung zu leben vermag (2023)
108 min | Drama
Merit, Eva, Lion, Rose, and David circumnavigate their tense relationships with caution. They converse, yet their words do not converge. They simulate their lifestyles while performing in plays.
Director: Katharina Lüdin | Stars: Unica-Rosa Blaue-Poppy, Anna Bolk, Oska Melina Borcherding, Martin Clausen
Votes: 10
9. Negu Hurbilak (2023)
90 min | Drama
In 2011, the prolonged armed conflict in the Basque Country appears to come to an end. A young woman runs away wanting to cross the border. She arrives in Zubieta, a border village where ancient myths and modern conflicts seem to converge.
Directors: Ekain Albite, Negu Collective, Mikel Ibarguren, Nicolau Mallofré, Adrià Roca | Stars: Anita, Beñardo, Kitxa, Jone Laspiur
Votes: 30
10. Touched (I) (2023)
135 min | Drama
When Maria meets Alex, a resident who is paraplegic, she goes through a transformational experience and they start an illicit relationship. Alex's demands and humiliation test Maria to the breaking point as their love grows stronger.
Director: Claudia Rorarius | Stars: Isold Halldórudóttir, Stavros Zafeiris, Tim Valerian Alberti, Camille Dombrowsky
Votes: 72
11. Stepne (2023)
117 min | Drama
Anatoliy, a man who comes home to care for his dying mother. An encounter with his brother and a woman he loves causes him to reflect on the decisions he has made along the way.
Director: Maryna Vroda | Stars: Nina Antonova, Oleksandr Maksiakov, Oleg Primogenov, Radmila Shegoleva
Votes: 52
12. Patagonia (2023)
112 min | Drama
After spending his entire life in a small town, Yuri escapes with Agostino, a children's entertainer who lives on the road in a motor home. Yuri is caught in a whirlpool of love and dependence with Agostino.
Director: Simone Bozzelli | Stars: Andrea Fuorto, Augusto Mario Russi, Elettra Dallimore Mallaby, Alexander Benigni
Votes: 188
13. Räkä ja Roiskis (2023)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy
In a comic adventure, brothers Snot and Splash aim to apprehend a thief who is robbing holes in the city but wind up saving the planet from being pulled into a crumbling waste disposal system.
Director: Teemu Nikki | Stars: Pekka Strang, Kati Outinen, Jari Virman, Matti Onnismaa
Votes: 21
14. Rapture (2023)
127 min | Drama
Since the church foretold that an 80-day apocalyptic darkness would come, a community has lived in constant fear of kidnappers. A ten-year-old youngster who is night blind has never found the village to be more frightful.
Director: Dominic Sangma | Stars: Handam R. Marak, Balsrame A. Sangma, Celestine K. Sangma, Torikhu A. Sangma
Votes: 104
15. Whispers of Fire & Water (2023)
83 min | Drama
It traces a journey of an audio installation artist who visits the largest coal mining region of Eastern India. There he encounters depleting natural resources and a landscape shaped by fire and water.
Director: Lubdhak Chatterjee | Stars: Rohini Chatterjee, Sagnik Mukherjee, Amit Saha, Deepak Halder
Votes: 18
16. Family Portrait (I) (2023)
78 min | Drama
A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her.
Director: Lucy Kerr | Stars: Rachel Alig, Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust, Miriam Spumpkin
Votes: 40
17. Yo y Las Bestias (2021)
77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An alternative rock band's singer-guitarist starts a solo career, seeking inspiration as Venezuela's crisis roils, accompanied by The Beasts, two masked and mysterious beings.
Director: Nico Manzano | Stars: Jesús Nunes, Gabriel Agüero, Eduardo Bol, Jesús Carreño
Votes: 116
18. Canard (2023)
9 min | Animation, Short
Vladimir and Olga raise ducks on a small isolated farm in the countryside. They hope for a child, but this expectation soon turns into a nightmare.
Director: Elie Chapuis
Votes: 10
19. The Lovers (III) (2023)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
Director: Carolina Sandvik
Votes: 26
20. La morsure (2023)
90 min | Drama
A Catholic schoolgirl is convinced tonight is her last night on Earth and decides to attend a costume party with her best friend.
Director: Romain de Saint-Blanquat | Stars: Fred Blin, Léonie Dahan-Lamort, Lilith Grasmug, Cyril Metzger
Votes: 124
21. Excursion (2023)
93 min | Drama
A teenage girl's seemingly little lie leads her into a storm of expectations, condemnation, and social dogmas.
Director: Una Gunjak | Stars: Asja Zara Lagumdzija, Maja Izetbegovic, Nadja Spaho, Mediha Musliovic
Votes: 159
22. Thunder (2022)
92 min | Drama
In a Swiss village, Elisabeth, 17, returns home from the convent after learning of her sister's mysterious death. Reunited with her three childhood friends, she discovers that faith and desire can sometimes be intertwined.
Director: Carmen Jaquier | Stars: Lilith Grasmug, Mermoz Melchior, Benjamin Python, Noah Watzlawick
Votes: 327
23. Falling Stars (2023)
80 min | Drama, Horror
On the first night of harvest, three brothers set out for the desert to see a witch's corpse.
Directors: Gabriel Bienczycki, Richard Karpala | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Orianna Milne, Samantha Turret, Rene Leech
Votes: 46
24. Jill (2022)
101 min | Drama
A modern fairy tale about how distrust in the collective society divides a family and how Jill many years later learns about what there is left to trust.
Director: Steven Michael Hayes | Stars: Juliet Rylance, Tom Pelphrey, Zackary Arthur, Garrett Wareing
Votes: 78
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