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 Alfonso Cuarón, Ken Loach, Shah Rukh Khan, Emma Thompson, WillemDafoe, Isabella Rossellini and many more.
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan on the Journey Behind “Frank & Louis”
Winner of the Prix du Public UBS at #Locarno79, Petra Volpe’s unflinching and emotional prison drama “Frank & Louis”, her first English-language film and her sixth at Locarno, depicts prisoner Frank (Kingsley Ben-Adir) as takes a caregiving job looking after Louis (Rob Morgan), who has Alzheimer’s, mostly to improve his chances of release. This week on #LocarnoMeets, we take the chance to sit down with the two extraordinary lead actors to chat through the journey behind the film, their collaboration with director Volpe, and how they worked to craft this an expression of humanity.
13 Oct 2026
Darren Aronofsky Talks '90s Filmmaking & Loving Your Most Hated Films
At #Locarno79, Darren Aronofsky, one of Hollywood’s weirdest mainstream filmmakers and one of its undeniable mavericks, took home our highest honour, the Pardo d’Onore (Honorary Leopard). This week on #LocarnoMeets, we leapt at the chance to sit down with the man whose career started with a drum & bass maths movie (“Pi”), passed through the wrestling comeback flick (“The Wrestler”), and wound its way all the way to a Biblical home invasion horror film (“mother!”). Along the way, Aronofsky has never once compromised, even while winning Hollywood’s top prizes and earning the respect of cinephiles around the world.
6 Oct 2026
Isabelle Huppert on “All About Corinne” and the Art of Successful Collaboration
This week on #LocarnoMeets, Isabelle Huppert joins us to talk Marc Fitoussi’s tender comedy “All About Corinne” (“Ni vue, ni connue”), the closing film of #Locarno79. Alongside Sandrine Kiberlain, Huppert plays the lead in a story that reunites her with Fitoussi, a director she has long trusted and often collaborated with. We talk about how she adapts to such different filmmakers, what keeps her artistic partnership with Fitoussi fresh, and her memories from collaborating with visionary filmmakers Claude Chabrol and Michael Haneke.
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Irène Jacob
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Amos Gitai
Rithy Panh
Freddy Macdonald
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