Locarno Meets

Locarno Film Festival

Welcome to Locarno Meets, an original Locarno Film Festival podcast brought to you by UBS. Established legends of cinema and exciting new talent chat about art, life, movies, and everything in between. Locarno Meets has featured memorable discussions with veritable legends of cinema like Shah Rukh Khan, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuarón, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, Irène Jacob, and many more.

  1. “Bugonia” Producer Ed Guiney Talks Indie Movies, Yorgos Lanthimos & the Smarthouse

    23/12/2025

    “Bugonia” Producer Ed Guiney Talks Indie Movies, Yorgos Lanthimos & the Smarthouse

    Ed Guiney is an Irish producer known for his collaborations with filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos and Joana Hogg. We invited him to join us on Locarno Meets to give his insights on the state of indie filmmaking in Europe, his artistic partnership with Yorgos Lanthimos, Letterboxd’s influence on arthouse attendance, and his definition of the role of producer.

    23 min
  2. “I Like It When a Director Has a Vision”: Willem Dafoe Talks Acting Process, David Lynch, and ‘The Birthday Party’

    16/12/2025

    “I Like It When a Director Has a Vision”: Willem Dafoe Talks Acting Process, David Lynch, and ‘The Birthday Party’

    Over the course of a more than 45-year career, Willem Dafoe has played everything, from the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man” to Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”. But crucially, he has never rested on his laurels, and continues to collaborate on ever more bold and daring projects with a new generation of emerging filmmakers. In Locarno to present Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s caustic “The Birthday Party” on the Piazza Grande, we sat down with Dafoe on Locarno Meets to talk about how you should find your own role when on set, working with David Lynch on “Wild at Heart”, juggling the demands of Hollywood and the arthouse, and getting fired from the set of “Heaven’s Gate” for laughing at a dirty joke.

    40 min
  3. From Sundance to the Piazza Grande: Bill Condon Talks J-Lo Indie Musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

    09/12/2025

    From Sundance to the Piazza Grande: Bill Condon Talks J-Lo Indie Musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

    Our guest this week on Locarno Meets is Bill Condon, the man behind some of the biggest movie musicals of the modern age, from “Chicago” to “Dreamgirls” to “Beauty and the Beast”. He joined us to talk timeliness, down and dirty prison dramas, working with Jennifer Lopez’s tight schedule, and how it all combined in his latest film “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, which was the closing film of Locarno78.

    26 min
  4. Pink Paint & the Pleasures of Horror Cinema: Julie Pacino Talks “I Live Here Now”

    02/12/2025

    Pink Paint & the Pleasures of Horror Cinema: Julie Pacino Talks “I Live Here Now”

    An eye-popping, heart-pounding genre film that premiered at Locarno78, “I Live Here Now” is a very funny, very scary, and very weird debut movie from Julie Pacino. This week on LocarnoMeets, the director joins us to talk about pink paint, David Lynch, and being traumatized on the set of “The Devil’s Advocate”.

    23 min
  5. Golshifteh Farahani: Exile from Iran, Necessity of Art & Full Body Action Cinema

    25/11/2025

    Golshifteh Farahani: Exile from Iran, Necessity of Art & Full Body Action Cinema

    This week on Locarno Meets we're joined by the Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who – in a remarkable and emotional in-depth discussion – talks about leaving Iran, the retribution she faced for debuting in Hollywood with “Body of Lies”, the Women, Life, Freedom (Zan, Zendegī, Āzādī) movement, making the extraordinary and disturbing “Alpha” with Julia Ducournau, and finally the joy – and physical toll – of making high-octane action movies.

    28 min
  6. “Sentimental Value” Screenwriter Eskil Vogt on Joachim Trier and Writing Nuance

    18/11/2025

    “Sentimental Value” Screenwriter Eskil Vogt on Joachim Trier and Writing Nuance

    Joining us this week on Locarno Meets is Eskil Vogt, the Norwegian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his collaborations with Joachim Trier that include the celebrated “Oslo, August 31st”, “The Worst Person in the World”, and this year’s “Sentimental Value”. We chatted with Vogt about that ongoing creative partnership, the difficulties and revelations of working in middle age, and working with children on his own film “The Innocents”, which premiered in Cannes in 2021.

    26 min
  7. Emma Thompson: “We Cried a Lot Making this Film”

    11/11/2025

    Emma Thompson: “We Cried a Lot Making this Film”

    Our video podcast Locarno Meets is back for its third season, and for the first episode we sat down with Emma Thompson to talk about her new thriller “Dead of Winter”, which is now released in the UK following its world premiere at Locarno78, as well as her theory of adapting Jane Austen, her origins in sketch comedy, and bundling her Best Screenplay Oscar through airport security. Locarno Meets: a Locarno Film Festival original podcast – brought to you by UBS – where established legends of cinema and exciting new talents chat about art, life, movies, and everything in between.

    27 min
  8. Caroline Goodall: from Steven Spielberg to Lars von Trier to “The Princess Diaries”

    12/03/2025

    Caroline Goodall: from Steven Spielberg to Lars von Trier to “The Princess Diaries”

    For our final episode for season two of Locarno Meets, we were delighted to be joined by actress Caroline Goodall, whose illustrious career has seen her turn in remarkable performances in now-classic films by many of the greatest names in contemporary cinema. Goodall was in Locarno to promote her latest film, the Piazza Grande-playing “Sew Torn”, directed by the prodigious young director Freddy MacDonald. We spoke with the marvellous actress about working, in this case, with a gifted filmmaker in his early twenties, as well as reminiscing about some of her major films, like “Schindler’s List”, “Hook”, “The Princess Diaries”, and Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac”.

    26 min
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Welcome to Locarno Meets, an original Locarno Film Festival podcast brought to you by UBS. Established legends of cinema and exciting new talent chat about art, life, movies, and everything in between. Locarno Meets has featured memorable discussions with veritable legends of cinema like Shah Rukh Khan, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuarón, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, Irène Jacob, and many more.

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