The Hollywood Reporter previews Swiss-linked films screening at the 79th Locarno Film Festival (5–16 August 2026), highlighting homegrown productions across the festival's various sections, including the dedicated "Panorama Suisse" strand for Swiss films that have found festival or box-office success. The piece matters as an early guide for festivalgoers to Swiss cinema on offer, spanning genres from political thriller to stage-set psychological drama.

Featured titles include:
– The Chilean (director Sergio Castro-San Martín), an Italy-Chile-Switzerland co-production screening in Piazza Grande about an exiled Chilean bomb-maker forced back into revolutionary violence.
– Happiness Is So Close! (director François-Christophe Marzal), an out-of-competition Swiss film starring Jean-Luc Bideau as an ageing actor gripped by paranoia over his Don Quixote understudy; Bideau receives an honorary Leopard ahead of the 9 August premiere.
– Small Talk (director Matteo Yberra), entered in the Filmmakers of the Present competition (article text cut short before further detail).
– The Locarno Kids Screenings programme also features two titles with Swiss involvement.