Locarno Film Festival

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

After a vacation romance, Kenneth and Theres lose sight of each other. But fate brings them together again 30 years later.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

Berlin filmmaker Michael Brynntrup exposes his own sex life in a radical, relentless yet humorous invasion of privacy.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.

Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.

At 19, after finishing the army, Imri moves from a peripheral city in Israel to Tel Aviv. All the while, he saves up so that he can move to Japan.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.

"Dying. What's so brave about it? It's a feat pulled off by everyone".

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a doc road movie that takes him to Europe and the U.S.

Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer.