A journey to a mysterious place on the outskirts of Mexico City where birth, life and death dance to the same tune. A short film that will turn into 5,000 postcards and travel through the mail for years. A singular project by Valentin Merz with Locarno Film Festival's BaseCamp and Swiss Post.
Cláudia is a Portuguese immigrant who deals with a terrorizing boss, her rejecting daughter and the strong mountain wind, as she cleans sophisticated Airbnb’s in the Swiss Alps.
An omnibus film made under the creative supervision of Alice Diop, with the help of Ticino Film Commission and RSI.
Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At the “Specola solare” in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.
An omnibus film made under the creative eye of Radu Jude, with the help of Cătălin Cristuțiu and the support of the Ticino Film Commission, RSI and Majid Foundation. Eleven directors from all over the world worked with the archive material provided by RSI to create their own films, which merged into this collective work that reflects on the meaning of images from the past to give them a new light.
