The Locarno Film Festival is betting on a sunny and combative program, like a resistance to current events.

Like other major artistic events, the Locarno Film Festival, a haven for cinephiles on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland, increasingly resembles a small paradise shaken by the tsunami of current events. Wars are taking hold (Ukraine, Gaza, etc.), and imaginations are filling with increasingly unbearable images of reality. How, then, can we program in a world where the horizon is darkening? What can we retain from the ever-increasing flow of works arriving on the screens of the selectors (at Locarno, 6,373 films were received, including short films and series)?

The ^78th edition of the Swiss event, which runs until August 16, is betting on a combative and sunny program, explains its artistic director, the Italian Giona A. Nazzaro, weighing each of his words in French. "How can we find films that, in their creativity and language, can address the complexity of the times? On the situation in Gaza, language has found its limits. There are two tragedies, the current one, and the one that we will have to face tomorrow: how can we talk to each other, forgive, rebuild?" he summarizes.

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