Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then – 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang – 2017) will be measuring up against a large swath of Euro films in the prestigious competition section at Locarno next month. Hong Sangsoo reteams with his usual players for By the Stream, while Wang Bing continues with docu film series that begin in Cannes with Youth (Spring) (2023) and continues with Youth (Hards Times). Among the items we have been tracking for a while now that were lassoed for the Concorso Internazionale section we find Virgil Vernier returning to the fest with Cent Mille Milliards (formerly known as Century Island, 100,000 Light-Years) – a project that was filmed in Monaco with Zakaria Bouti, Victoire Kong, Mina Gajovic.… Read the rest
