Variety | 2018Locarno Festival

Locarno: Swiss Director Lionel Baier Set For Sicily-Set 'South' (EXCLUSIVE)

In another key Swiss film announcement at the Locarno Festival, director Lionel Baier ("Longwave") is developing "South," a Sicily-set road movie mixing Europe's bureaucratic immigration woes with those of rocky mother-and-son relation

By Nick Vivarelli

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