The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Darren Aronofsky  with its Honorary Leopard Award. The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate the American auteur on Aug. 14 during a ceremony on its 8,000-seat Piazza Grande. Aronofsky will also present his films “The Fountain” (2006) and “Mother!” (2017) and take part in an onstage public conversation. “With era-defining films like “Pi”(1998), “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), the Venice film festival award-winner “The Wrestler” (2008), “Black Swan” (2010), “Noah” (2014), and “The Whale” (2022) – for which Brendan Fraser was deservedly awarded Best Actor at the Academy Awards – Darren Aronofsky has carved out a space in contemporary cinema that defies tidy categorisation,” the fest said in a statement. “By turns provocative, spiritual, and formally daring, his films have for more than a quarter century probed the outer limits of faith, desire, and obsession,” it added.…