The Locarno Film Festival opens today with the world premiere of French directorial duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s The Green Eyes in front of 8,000 spectators on the lakeside town’s Piazza Grande. It’s like the opening beat of a concert,” says Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Giona A Nazzaro. Nazzaro says he is not keen on making a distinction between “so-called public films” and “cinema for the highbrow few.” Nazzaro says the diversity of the Locarno program builds on his work at Venice Critics’ Week, which he headed from 2016 to 2020. Restored by Zurich-based laboratory Cinegrell in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival, the new 4K version of Dances of Wolves incorporates 30 minutes of previously unseen footage extending its duration to just under four hours.