Locarno 2019

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 7:44 p.m.

b"This week, the Film Comment podcast reports on location from the 2019 Locarno International Film Festival. FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold was joined by Jessica Green, programmer and Artistic Director of the Houston Cinema Arts Society, and programmer and FC contributor Jordan Cronk, for a discussion of festival highlights. These include Pedro Costa\\u2019s Vitalina Varela, Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter\\u2019s doc Space Dogs, Ja'Tovia M. Gary\\u2019s The Giverny Document, Ulrich K\\xf6hler and Henner Winkler\\u2019s A Voluntary Year, Nad\\xe8ge Trebal\\u2019s Twelve Thousand, and a selection of films from the festival\\u2019s retrospective program which shined a spotlight on black cinema."