Tag: locarnopro2025

Locarno Pro 2025 highlighted a diverse range of international projects, with industry awards recognizing emerging talent, cross-border collaborations, and new developments in independent cinema.

Locarno's First Look industry showcase turned its 14th edition spotlight on Canadian cinema, unveiling six diverse works in progress that underline the country's growing ambition and international reach.

New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno's Story Lab Pitching Session.

Producer Ed Guiney and director Radu Jude offered international film professionals a candid set of lessons on how trust, transparency, and the creative use of constraints can define, and ultimately strengthen, the producer-director relationship.

Canada used its spotlight at Locarno Pro to signal that international co-production is no longer an exception but a growing norm, backed by modernized treaties, robust financing, and globally competitive tax incentives.

With a programme built to reflect the evolving needs of the international film community, Locarno Pro 2025 offers a curated suite of initiatives, labs, and strategic forums designed to support emerging talent, advance co-productions, and foster critical dialogue across the independent film value chain.