Festival del Film Locarno Series Comes to Washington, D.C.

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Festival del Film Locarno Series Comes to Washington, D.C. — DFAE

“When you sit in the Piazza Grande, waiting for the evening’s screening, you have the feeling that, in some way, you are also part of the action,” said Ambassador Martin Dahinden, and that is exactly the atmosphere the festival brings to the nation’s capital.

The first movie to be shown, The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said, is a dramatic comedy about the conflict between the natives and landowners of European descent in Chile. The film was part of the 2008 Open Doors program, a Festival section supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) which assists directors and producers from countries in the South and the East. The Ambassadors of Switzerland and Chile will give welcoming remarks. Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Festival del film Locarno, will participate in a Q&A session after the screening.

The series will continue with Swiss director Eileen Hofer’s Horizontes, a fine documentary portraying the lives of three Cuban ballet dancers at different stages in their careers. Director Eileen Hofer and Septime Webre, Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, will be present and will participate in a Q&A session after the movie. A light reception with Swiss treats will follow the screening.

The series will conclude with Richmond-born director Rick Alverson’s Entertainment, which was presented in the Piazza Grande in Locarno as part of the Concorso Internazionale and reconfirms Alverson’s unique approach and perspective on the U.S. film scene.

The Summer of Flying Fish – Saturday October 4, 2015, at 4:00 p.m.
at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, 6^th and Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Watch trailer here.

Horizontes – Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at 7:00 p.m.
at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Watch trailer here.

Entertainment – Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Watch trailer here.

If you are interested in attending one of the screenings, contact:
Valentina Imelli, Project Coordinator, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Affairs valentina.imelli@eda.admin.ch

For media inquiries and possible interviews, contact:
Salome Ramseier, Head of Communications, Embassy of Switzerland
Salome.ramseier@eda.admin.ch / 202-957-5201