Locarno: Lakeside Fest Unveils 2026 Selection With Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunha, Gurvinder Singh & Denis Côté Pictures In Competition

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 79th edition with new films from Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunha, Gurvinder Singh and Denis Côté in the main International Competition. The festival, running from August 5 to 15, will open with a Piazza Grande world premiere for Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s The Green Eyes. Following two children whose lives are turned upside down when their father abandons the family home to escape deportation, it is the directorial duo’s second feature after their 2020 breakout Gagarine. Other Piazza Grande highlights include The Invite, with director and co-star Olivia Wilde due to attend the screening, as well as Cannes 2026 contender Paper Tiger and a newly restored copy of Kevin Costner’s Dancing With Wolves. Watch on Deadline In the main International Competition, prolific Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, who was at Berlin this year with The Day She Returns, is back on the festival circuit with Nowhere To Lay My Eyes; Canadian director Denis Côté will unveil 17th feature Nobody’s Violence, while Swiss-Portuguese director Basil Da Cunha is in the mix with Lisbon-set gangland tale O Jacaré. Singaporean director Yeo, who made Locarno history in 2023 with first Southeast Asian film to win both the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition and the festival’s Best First Feature award with his debut feature Dreaming & Dying, returns with The House On The Moon. Featuring an ensemble Taiwanese and Singaporean cast, it combines science fiction and Wu Xia, the Chinese tradition of martial-arts hero stories. Summing up this year’s lineup and Locarno’s selection ethos in general, festival director Giona A. Nazzaro described it as “curated diversity”. Locarno 2026 Lineup Piazza Grande THE GREEN EYES (opening film) By Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh France, Belgium, Sweden ARMONY By Dario Albertini Italy WILD AT HEART By David Lynch U.S. I IS ANOTHER By Felix Randau Germany, Austria DANCES WITH WOLVES By Kevin Costner USA, United Kingdom THE INVITE By Olivia Wilde U.S. TAXI DRIVER By Martin Scorsese U.S. PAPER TIGER By James Gray U.S. FRANK & LOUIS by Petra Volpe Switzerland, U.K. CONGO BOY By Rafiki Fariala Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, DOWN THE ARM OF GOD By Peter Brunner France, U.S. THE CHILEAN By Sergio Castro-San Martín Italy, Chile, Switzerland LOVE LESSONS By Martin Provost France, Belgium ALL ABOUT CORINNE By Marc Fitoussi France, Belgium International Competition RIVERBANK By Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho Brazil, Germany WANDERING TREES By Salvatore Mereu Italy BRAVE NEW LOVE By Maria Bäck Denmark, Sweden, Greece D’ICI LÀ By Sarah Leonor France I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING By Isabelle Stever Germany, Ukraine KETTICÈ By Giovanni Tortorici Italy FAR FROM THE TREES By Meritxell Colell Aparicio Spain, Peru, Italy MANHUNT By Wayne Wapeemukwa Canada YOU DON’T BELONG HERE By Florin Șerban Romania NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES By Hong Sangsoo South Korea O JACARÉ By Basil Da Cunh Switzerland, Portugal OBJET A By Ann Oren Germany, Luxembourg, Greece DONKEY PRINCESS By Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña Chile, France, Uruguay, Netherlands, Germany World premiere REHMAT By Gurvinder Singh India, France THE HOUSE ON THE MOON By Nelson Yeo Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, Indonesia THÍNH GIÁC (HEARING) by Lê Bảo Vietnam, Singapore, Norway, France, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan NOBODY’S VIOLENCE By Denis Côté Canada Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) AT NIGHT By Beatrice Gibson U.K., France DEMONS By Natalka Vorozhbyt Ukraine, Poland DESTROY ALL GIRLS By Erin Vassilopoulos U.S. EGO REACH WE ALL (OUR TIME WILL COME) By Amartei Armar Ghana, France HANABI (FIRE FLOWER) By Ana Vaz France, Brazil THE ILLUSION OF AN EVERLASTING SUMMER By Alessandra Sanguinetti Argentina, U.S. SUMMER MEADOW By Naël Khleifi Belgium, France THE DAYS OFF By Lucila Mariani Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France MAGIC ATLAS By SUN Xun Singapore TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO By Luise Donschen Germany REVOLUTIONARIES NEVER DIE By Mohanad Yaqubi Palestine, Belgium, Qatar SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON By Nicolaas Schmidt Germany SMALL TALK By Mateo Ybarra Switzerland TEAR GAS By Uta Beria Georgia, France, Germany IN ALL MY JOURNEYS I AM RETURNING By Manuel Ponce de León Colombia