Locarno 2026 shorts — what (if anything) was published

Checked 17 Sep 2026: Locarno programme pages, each film's director and production company websites, and listed funders' pages were searched for published budgets, crew sizes, schedules or fee statements; none of the credited filmmakers or producers for the set below publish those figures.

The specific shorts and credited directors (as listed in festival materials) that were checked are:

• Typhoon Mambo — Domenico Singha Pedroli
• Elegy for the Forgotten, on an Endless War — Bani Khoshnoudi
• Goat — Judy Kibinge
• Maids of Petroleum — Hans Baumann
• The Architect Who Built His Own Collapse — Chun-Tien Chen
• Gherking — Claudius Gentinetta
• The God that Destroys — Jyoti Mistry
• Filmsaaz

For this checked set, no published budgets, crew sizes, production schedules or director/producer fee statements were found on the festival pages, filmmakers' sites, production company pages or listed funders' sites. Where those numbers are absent, freelancers and vendors must treat cost and payment terms as negotiable and confirm them in writing before starting work.