Marta Balaga Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-Summer movie event, has announced its lineup, welcoming recognizable names to its main competition, from Filipino auteur Lav Diaz (“Essential Truths of the Lake”) to Romanian powerhouse Radu Jude, who will show “Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World.” As already announced, Cate Blanchett and Zar Amir Ebrahimi are set to attend the Locarno Film Festival’s closing night to promote the European launch of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari’s debut film “Shayda.” Among the titles selected for Locarno’s more broad-audience-friendly Piazza Grande lineup, Justine Triet will attend with her Cannes Palme’ d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall,” along with Ken Loach and his “The Old Oak.” The festival will also celebrate the careers of Harmony Korine, producer Marianne Slot, editor Pietro Scalia, Tsai Ming-liang and present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Italian producer Renzo Rossellini.

Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed will pick up the Excellence Award Davide Campari, honoring “artistic personalities whose contributions have made a mark on contemporary cinema.” Ahmed is behind the Academy Award winning short “The Long Goodbye”; he was also nominated for his turn in “Sound of Metal.” “[French director Jacques]Rivette writes somewhere: ‘Cinema is, fundamentally, a descriptive and didactic art: the two are linked.

Its true vocation is the essay: Descriptive ordering of reality, the revealing of the relationships, connections and concordances of various phenomena.’ This is what I tried, with my modest talent, to do in this film,” Jude, a Berlinale Golden Bear winner, said of “Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World.”. “[I wanted] to connect

Locarno Reveals Lineup, With Radu Jude, Lav Diaz, Quentin Dupieux, Newcomer Maryna Vroda, and Awards Riz Ahmed

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