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Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival Sold by The Coproduction Office, ‘The Fin’ questions social divisions in a dystopian unified Korea.

Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival variety.com/2025/film/gl... #locarno2025 #thefin #koreancinema

North And South Korea Are Reunified In Syeyoung Park’s Locarno Competition Title ‘The Fin’ — First Trailer Locarno runs until August 16.

North And South Korea Are Reunified In Syeyoung Park’s Locarno Competition Title ‘The Fin’ — First Trailer deadline.com/2025/08/syey... #thefin #locarno2025

Locarno 2025 review: The Fin (Syeyoung Park) "Park adds a political and dramatic depth to his film which is just as powerful and striking as the mesmerizing aesthetics." The Fin takes place at some

THE FIN ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Park adds a political and dramatic depth to his film which is just as powerful and striking as the mesmerizing aesthetics.” icsfilm.org/festivals/lo....

Legend of the Happy Worker - DMovies David Lynch's editor takes the director's seat and creates a modern-day Western with abundant light, scorching soils and... no guns - from the 78th Locarno Film Festival

David Lynch's editor takes the director's seat and creates a modern-day Western with abundant light, scorching soils and... no guns

From the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival:

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Locarno Says Farewell to David Lynch With Tribute Film ‘An Unfinished Room…’ "His contribution to beauty, dreams, and art will never be forgotten," artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said. "And tonight, we celebrate him with this tiny, wonderful masterpiece, edited by Duwayne ...

Locarno Says Farewell to David Lynch With Tribute Film ‘An Unfinished Room…’
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Legend of the Happy Worker demonstrates the value of crypto-financing 06/08/2025 - Swiss-based Arts 3’s involvement in Duwayne Dunham’s film, premiering at Locarno, proves how crypto-financing can operate within hybrid production funding models

💡 Duwayne Dunham’s movie Legend of the Happy Worker demonstrates the value of crypto-financing. The film, which premieres at #Locarno2025, was co-financed through blockchain infrastructure as part of a broader funding strategy employed by Arts 3, a Swiss-based company.
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Legend of the Happy Worker Review Legend of the Happy Worker is too slight for what it wants to say, but cheery performances and production mean it’s likeable all the same.

"Legend of the Happy Worker feels slight, but that’s part of the point, and part of its appeal."

Read @cynicalfilm.bsky.social's review of Duwayne Dunham's 'fable for our time’, which has just premiered at the Locarno Film Festival! 😍

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Matthew Joseph Jenner examines the American Dream in Duwayne Dunham's LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER, a bold and colourful existential parable about the innate human desire to be seen as successful #Locarno78 buff.ly/nIWAkPH

Duwayne Dunham Discusses ‘Legend of the Happy Worker,’ His “Fable for Our Time,” and David Lynch He addresses AI, the pursuit of happiness, and shares that he wants to cause debate with the Locarno-premiering film starring Josh Whitehouse, Thomas Haden Church, Colm Meaney, and a golden shovel.

Duwayne Dunham Discusses ‘Legend of the Happy Worker,’ His “Fable for Our Time,” and David Lynch www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... #legendofthehappyworker #duwaynedunham #locarno2025 #locarnofilmfestival #davidlynch

Legend of the Happy Worker demonstrates the value of crypto-financing 06/08/2025 - Swiss-based Arts 3’s involvement in Duwayne Dunham’s film, premiering at Locarno, proves how crypto-financing can operate within hybrid production funding models

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‘Legend Of The Happy Worker’ Trailer: First Look At The Locarno Competition Title Exec Produced By David Lynch 'Legend Of The Happy Worker' debuts this week at Locarno.

‘Legend Of The Happy Worker’ Trailer: First Look At The Locarno Competition Title Exec Produced By David Lynch deadline.com/2025/08/lege...

🇺🇦 WORLD PREMIERE at #TIFF50
Valentyn Vasyanovych (Atlantis, Reflection) returns with TO THE VICTORY! / ЗА ПЕРЕМОГУ! — a haunting post-war tale of a man left behind.
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Ukraine–Lithuania | 2025 | 105 min

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‘Dracula’ by Radu Jude, David Lynch-Exec Produced ‘Happy Worker’ Set for Locarno Lineup New movies from Abdelletif Kechiche, Vincent Grashaw, and Ben Rivers will also premiere at the Swiss fest, with artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro saying: "Let's regain the world one film at a time."

Fwiw: THE LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER (dir. by Twin Peaks editor Duwayne Dunham, exec produced by David Lynch, from a screenplay (by others) Lynch gave to Dunham post-BLUE VELVET) is finally being released, after wrapping filming in 2018. Co-stars Amy Shiels.
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The Fin by Syeyoung Park will premiere in the Cineasti del Presente Competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.

In a post-war and ecologically devastated Korea, Sujin, a young government worker begins to doubt the state’s ideology as she pursues Mia, a mutated outcast
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Intramovies Picks Up Locarno Contender ‘Mosquitoes’: ‘A Film Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before’ (EXCLUSIVE) Intramovies acquires sales rights to Locarno main competition contender ‘Mosquitos’ directed by Valentina and Nicole Bertand

Intramovies Picks Up Locarno Contender ‘Mosquitoes’: ‘A Film Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before’ (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2025/film/gl... #locarno78 #mosquitoes

A still from the film When The Light Breaks. Two white people, one with a shaved head and the other with shoulder-length hair, sit on a clifftop, holding one another and watching a tangerine-coloured sunset.

"It took me a while to shed this experience and shed the character, and I was honestly terrified to see the result because it had challenged every bit of me" - Elín Hall on When The Light Breaks www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #filmsky 🎬

A Useful Ghost: Recognised in Cannes, Thai director hopes film stirs political debate at home The quirky film, about a women who dies and whose spirit returns by possessing a vacuum cleaner, explores power and political oppression in Thailand

“One of the main intentions for the film would be [to talk about] how we deal with injustice in the past,” says Ratchapoom. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A USEFUL GHOST, ganadora de la Semana de la Crítica en Cannes 2025, llegará a cines mexicanos de mano de Tulip Pictures.

Su historia sigue a una aspiradora poseída por una mujer que incluso muerta de probarle a su familia que es útil.

Nuestra crítica: laestatuilla.com/criticas/cri...

Eric San says the origami scene was inspired by a meal with his mum. She turned a chopstick packet into a shape. 'I was holding it like it was a jewel in my hand,' he recalls
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Hysteria - DMovies A small confrontation at a movie set blows into unhinged anger, conspiracy, and racism, in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's sly drama - from Tiff Romania

A small confrontation at a movie set blows into unhinged anger, conspiracy, and racism, in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's sly drama

From Tiff Romania:

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Space Cadet - Film Review - Eye For Film Robot’s sole purpose has always been to nurture Celeste into the brilliant scientist she has now become. But as the young astronaut sets off on her first interstellar mission, Robot is left behind.

The story of a friendship between a little girl and her robot is charted in Space Cadet www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/space... #Annecy2025 #FilmSky🎬

See our exclusive poster premiere for Félix Dufour-Laperrière's 'Death Does Not Exist,' which premiered at Cannes and competes at Annecy next week.

‘Colours of Time’ Review: Cédric Klapisch’s Genial, ​Dual​-Timeline Crowdpleaser​ About Art and Ancestry Cédric Klapisch's "Colours of Time" sees Suzanne Lindon as a new ​arrival in ​​Belle Époque Paris while her ​modern descendants discover her story

‘Colours of Time’ Review: Cédric Klapisch’s Genial, ​Dual​-Timeline Crowdpleaser​ About Art and Ancestry variety.com/2025/film/re...

‘Militantropos’ Review: Austere Anti-War Doc Employs Formal Control in an Impassioned Defense of Ukraine Ukrainian doc from Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi brings an anthropologist’s eye to how war is lived through, waged and filmed.

« Militantropos’ brings an anthropologist’s eye to how war is lived through, waged and filmed » variety.com/2025/film/re... #cannes2025 #ukraine 🇺🇦

Dandelion's Odyssey - Film Review - Eye For Film Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa - four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth - are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown plan...

Four seeds go on a life-or-death adventure in animation Dandelion's Odyssey www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dande... #Cannes2025 #FilmSky🎬

Crítica: "Caravan", un corazón dividido en el camino (Cannes 2025) - La Estatuilla "Caravan" es una road movie sensible sobre los sentimientos encontrados de una madre cansada de cuidar a su hijo con síndrome de Down.

De #Cannes2025 | CARAVAN es una road movie sensible y honesta sobre los sentimientos encontrados de una madre cansada de cuidar a su hijo con síndrome de Down y autismo.

@wallyrgr.bsky.social nos platica sobre esta película de Un Certain Regard.

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CLÉO DIARA gana Mejor Actuación de Un Certain Regard por su trabajo en I ONLY REST IN THE STORM.

Por acá nuestra crítica de esta película (coincidimos totalmente con ese merecido premio): laestatuilla.com/criticas/cri...

Cannes Film Festival Review: Pedro Pinho's 'I Only Rest in the Storm' Cannes Film Festival Review: Pedro Pinho's 'I Only Rest in the Storm' | Vague Visages

New by Alistair Ryder • Cannes Film Festival Review: Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest in the Storm’ #IOnlyRestInTheStorm #Cannes2025

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9 French Films Premiering at Cannes 2025 frenchly.us/french-films... #cannes2025

A Magnificent Life - Film Review - Eye For Film Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.

The career of Marcel Pagnol is brought to the screen in animation A Magnificent Life www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-mag... #Cannes2025 #FilmSky🎬