Vietnamese director Lê Bảo returns with “Hearing,” a slow-cinema family drama premiering in main competition at the Locarno Film Festival, following the acclaim of his 2021 debut “Taste.” The film uses spare narrative and intricate sound design to explore an extended family confronting years of silence, rifts and estrangement, marking Lê as a distinctive voice…

British director Andrew Haigh, fresh off the acclaimed success of All of Us Strangers, has chosen to make a deeply personal passion project rather than pursue bigger, higher-profile opportunities. His new film, A Long Winter, is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s 2006 short story that Haigh has been trying to bring to the screen for…