Laura Ferrés’ latest project will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

The 34-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s La Image Permanent is among the titles that have been added to the international competition for the upcoming 76th edition of the festival, running August 2 and 12.

The film will contend for the festival’s Golden Leopard award.

El Auge Del Humano 3, from director Eduardo Williams, will also compete at the festival in its world premiere.

In all, the festival’s main International Competition will showcase 17 films this year, 16 of them world premieres.

Another 15 titles by emerging directors will play in the festival’s Filmmakers of The Present competition, including Mexican director Mauricio Calderón Rico’s Todos Los Incendios, Spanish director Colectivo Negu’s Negu Hurbilak and María Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro’s On The Go.

Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said the selection offered a dialogue-provoking snap-shot of the world today.

“While recent events certainly do not leave much room for optimism, cinema helps us to imagine – literally “put into images” – a possibility of the world,” he said, in a written statement on the selection.

“For this reason, while being aware of the historical moment in which our work has plunged, we have searched and looked in many directions, trying to grasp the meaning of a present that, despite everything, offers itself rich and exciting. A moment that we have attempted to grasp and recount by dialoguing with the films we have selected.”

Here’s a complete list of the films set to be featured at the festival:

International Competition Titles

Animal
Dir. Sofia Exarchou
Greece/Austria/Romania/Cyprus/Bulgaria
World premiere

Baan (Home) (Portugal)
Dir. Leonor Teles
Portugal
World premiere, First Feature

El Auge Del Humano 3
Dir. Eduardo Williams
Argentina/Portugal/Netherlands/Taiwan/Brazil/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka/ Peru)
World premiere

Essential Truths Of The Lake
Dir. Lav Diaz
Philippines/France/Portugal/Singapore/Italy/Switzerland/United Kingdom
World premiere

La Image Permanent (The Permanent Picture)
Dir. Laura Ferrés
France/Spain
World premiere, First Feature

Lousy Carter
Dir. Bob Byington
US
World premiere

Manga d’Terra (Switzerland/Portugal)
Dir.Basil Da Cunha
Switzerland/Portugal
World premiere

Mantagheye Bohrani (Critical Zone)
DirAli Ahmadzadeh
Iran/Germany
World premiere

Nähtamatu Võitlus (The Invisible Fight)
Dir. Rainer Sarnet
Estonia/Latvia/Greece/Finland
World premiere

Nuit Obscure – Au Revoir Ici, N’Importe Où
Dir. Sylvain George
France/Switzerland
World premiere

Nu Aștepta Prea Mult De La Sfârșitul Lumii (Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World)
Dir. Radu Jude
Romania/Luxembourg/France/Croatia
World premiere

Patagonia
Dir. Simone Bozzelli
Italy
World premiere, First Feature

Rossosperanza
Dir. Annarita Zambrano
Italy/France
World premiere

Stepne
Dir.Maryna Vroda
Ukraine/Germany/Poland/Slovakia
World premiere, First Feature

Sweet dreams
Dir. Ena Sendijarević
Netherlands/Sweden/Indonesia/Réunion – 2023
World premiere

The Vanishing Soldier
Dir.Dani Rosenberg
Israel
World premiere

Yannick
Dir. Quentin Dupieux
France
International premiere

Piazza Grande Line-up

Anatomy Of A Fall
Dir. Justine Triet
France

Antarctica Calling (Continent Magnétique)
Dir. Luc Jacquet
France
World premiere

Guardians of the Formula (Čuvari Formule)
Dir. Dragan Bjelogrlić
Serbia/Slovenia/Montenegro/North Macedonia
World premiere

Dammi
Dir. Yann Mounir Demange
France
World premiere

Falling Stars
Dir. Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
US
World premiere, First Feature

The Falling Star
Dir. Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel
France/Belgium
World premiere

The Beautiful Summer
Dir. Laura Luchetti
Italy
World premiere

City of Women (1980)
Dir. by Federico Fellini
Italy/France

La Paloma (1974)
Dir. Daniel Schmid
Switzerland/France

La Voie Royale
Dir. by Frédéric Mermoud
France/Switzerland
World premiere

Smugglers (Milsu)
Dir. RYOO Seung-wan
South Korea
European premiere

Filmmakers of The Present Competition

Camping du Lac
Dir. Eléonore Saintagnan
Belgium/France
World premiere, First Feature

Ein Schöner Ort
Dir. Katharina Huber
Germany
World premiere, First Feature

Excursion (Ekskurzija)
Dir. Una Gunjak
Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/ Serbia/France/Norway/Qatar
World premiere, First Feature

Family Portrait
Dir. Lucy Kerr
USA
World premiere, First Feature

Dreaming & Dying (Hao Jiu Bu Jian)
Dir. Nelson Yeo
Singapore/Indonesia
World premiere, First Feature

La Morsure
Dir. Romain de Saint-Blanquat
France
World premiere, First Feature

Negu Hurbilak
Dir. Colectivo Negu
Spain
World premiere, First Feature

On The Go
Dir. María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro
Spain
World premiere, First Feature

Rapture (Rimdogittanga)
Dir. Dominic Sangma
India/China/Switzerland/Netherlands/Qatar
World premiere

Rivière
Dir. Hugues Hariche
Switzerland/France
World premiere, First Feature

Todos Los Incendios
Dir. Mauricio Calderón Rico
Mexico
World premiere, First Feature

Touched
Dir. Claudia Rorarius
Germany
World premiere

Und Dass Man Ohne Täuschung Zu Leben Vermag
Dir. Katharina Lüdin
Germany/Switzerland
World premiere, First Feature

Whispers Of Fire & Water
Dir. Lubdhak Chatterjee
India
World premiere, First Feature

West Border (Xi Du)
Dir. Yan Luo
ChinaWorld premiere, First Feature