Riccardo Bernasconi

In a decadent Circus in the middle of a large city today, the "Strongest Man in the World" can no longer lift his elephant. Every artist does his best, but the once successful circus has lost its public. The trapeze girl decides to risk her own life, in a desperate attempt to help the man she loves find his lost self-confidence.

'Rabbit Girl' is the story of a young bookseller with a double life: she sells books during the day and has a burlesque rabbit show in the evenings. Her love story with the delivery boy is at risk when he suddenly appears at one of her shows.

Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces him to clean his uncle’s headstone. There Billy meets Myrtle, a little girl ghost stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead. Freeing Myrtle means losing the only friend Billy has ever had.

In the Twenties a young and solitary alchemist dedicates his existence to collecting and experimenting with botanical species… and nymphs. But something is still missing in this collection, something that could even destroy it.

It’s not easy being a vampire nowadays, especially if you’ve promised not to drink human blood. Hysterical!

Facing the massive interruption the world went through during the lockdown months, the artistic community did a lot of thinking, about solitude, emptiness, fear of illness and implicitly of the future, and the relationship with domestic space and technology. A group of Swiss film directors turned these themes into the shorts that became the national project known as Collection Lockdown by Swiss Filmmakers. The Locarno Film Festival is showing nine of these films on the big screen, showcasing the work of filmmakers who continued creating cinema to share their experience from during those days.

A young werechihuahua needs to find out the truth about his father, one of the most famous werewolves in town.

Hitler is not dead. He is hiding in the woods. With a gypsy woman. Their son is Donald Trump. Two nazi hunters women are tracking him down.