Locarno Film Festival opens with focus on Middle East and Iran

• The 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival opened with a focus on the Middle East and Iran.
• Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider praised the festival's courage in addressing controversial topics.
• The festival is screening 'With Hasan in Gaza', a documentary featuring footage from 2001.
• Swiss filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron's mini-series 'The Deal', about the 2015 nuclear agreement, will screen its first two episodes.
• Maja Hoffmann is the President of the Locarno Film Festival.

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