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This year Locarno Pro offers

Meetings and Networking
Locarno Pro is a place for networking, meeting new partners, and discovering new talents and projects in development:
 
Match Me!
Alliance 4 Development
Open Doors Hub

Additionally, every day from August 5 to 7 (from 6:30pm to 8pm), the Locarno Pro Meet & Greet will be organized at the brand new Davide Campari Lounge right behind the Piazza Grande screen.
 
Screenings
Locarno Pro is all about discovering new films. Find out how to experience screenings, from First Look on German Cinema to Open Doors' first year in Latin America and the Caribbean, via the official competitions.

First Look
Open Doors Screenings
The program for the Industry Screenings and for the Press Screenings will be available around mid-July.
 
Workshops and consulting
Locarno Pro is the place where you can develop your projects and meet new business partners. Discover the selected participants of our initiatives:

Alliance 4 Development
Industry Academy
Open Doors Lab

 
Think Tanks
Reflections and in-depth analysis have always been at the heart of Pro's activities. This year in particular, the reflection between seniors and juniors, between present and future, is aimed at different current industry topics, including Film Financing today and Streaming Platforms, Structural changes and transformation of some key industry professions, Film Markets and Industry Events in the hybrid era and Social Impact in Film Industry:

StepIn
U30
 
Conversations and Discussions
Locarno Pro is also a place for talks and discussions such as roundtables on distribution windows for classic films, on film financing opportunities today, on the new Open Doors’ region in focus; 3 masterclasses (Christine Vachon, Katriel Schory and Lucius Barre), one panel presentation on original language film distribution in the US (with Neon Distribution) and 4 Keynote Speeches on the status of the film industry today (from the Audience and audiovisual consumption in the post-pandemic era to the Social Impact in the Film Industry) open to Industry and Press accredited.
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Find out how to experience Locarno75 with an Industry Accreditation.

 

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