On Aug. 9, Locarno Film Festival ’s red carpet will be rolled out for the second time in a row to the acclaimed U.K. experimental filmmaker and artist Ben Rivers . After “Bogancloch” – acquired for North America by Cinema Guild – the helmer’s latest work, “Mare’s Nest,” will vie for the festival’s Golden Leopard. Its next festival stop will be Toronto where it will open the Wavelength section. Variety debuts the trailer here.

Wrapped in Rivers’ signature cinematic style which merges fiction, documentary, poetic essay and fable, the movie is loosely based on U.S. author and playwright Don DeLillo’s play about climate change “The Word for Snow.” In the all-child-cast futuristic road-movie, we follow the young girl Moon (played by rising talent Moon Guo Barker) as “she travels throu

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