With Swisscom, MUBI, Play Suisse and play.locarnofestival.ch, the Locarno Film Festival widens its offer to the public that won’t be able to attend the event physically, with an online selection of competition films and gems from the past.
Besides the ones in Piazza Grande and the city cinemas, the Loc...
In its 75th anniversary year, the Locarno Film Festival looks to the future with a raft of initiatives for the younger generations, and for creatives who are innovating the language of moving images: from the Locarno Academy to BaseCamp and the Locarno Residency, the future of the Festival is being built in the factory of Locarno.
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At a time when discourse on film is increasingly centered on the imminent changes coming to the ...
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Locarno Pro is a place for networking, meeting new partners, and discovering new talents and projects in development:
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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
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The Festival approaches and we cannot wait to welcome you all to Piazza Grande to celebrate this 75th edition!
After two editions marked by the pandemic, this year the event will return to being in all respects what it has always been: an appointment open to all types of audiences, to which access is unrestricted, with hundreds of film premieres presented, and many opportunities to meet and rediscover the pleasure of sharing the seventh art.
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The eclectic and talented British actor, who won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016), will receive the award on the evening of August 3 in the Piazza Grande, where he will also present the Locarno Film Festival's opening film Bullet Train, by David Leitch, a filmmaker who previously attended Locarno in 2017 with Atomic Blonde.
Taylor-Johnson is known for roles as varied as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy&n...
In its anniversary edition, the Locarno Film Festival will open up to the new languages of the contemporary, with a 24-hour live talk on new media on Twitch, through the works and reflections of artists such as Hito Steyerl and the Total Refusal collective, with a virtual reality proposal in collaboration with GIFF, and with the presentation in video essay form of the first results of the work done by USI Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts Kevin B....
British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of the miniseries Normal People (2020), will receive the Leopard Club Award at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (3 - 13 August 2022). The award ceremony, which will take place in the evening of Friday 5 August in Piazza Grande, will be complimented the following day by a screening of the film Pond Life (2018) by Bill Buckhurst.
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Edgar-Jones’ magnetic screen presenc...
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The Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico for Best Independent Producer on the international scene will this year go to Jason Blum, a pivotal figure who has rebooted contemporary independent filmmaking, coming up with hits such as Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) and BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018). Blum will receive the prize on the evening of Saturday 6 August, and the tribute to him will include screenings o...
The Lifetime Achievement Award, the Locarno Film Festival's tribute to film personalities with extraordinary careers, will be given to U.S. actor Matt Dillon. The award ceremony on Thursday, August 4 in Piazza Grande will be accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989) and City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon, 2002), and a Q&A with the audience on Friday, August 5 at the Forum @Spazio Cinema. © Tom Munro
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Open Doors announces today the first selection of projects and creative producers from its new focus on Latin America and the Caribbean regions. This group of film directors and producers, who are catalysts of the region’s cinematic output, will be hosted and presented at the 75th Locarno Film Festival this August.
Open Doors returns to the region that was last featured in 2008 with titles like La vida de los peces by Matias Bize, Tanta agua by Ana Guevara and Letitia Jorge...
The Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare will be given to Indian filmmaker Gitanjali Rao, director of Bombay Rose (2019). The ceremony on the Piazza Grande on Monday, August 8, 2022 will be accompanied by a screening of her short film Printed Rainbow (2006).
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The new film from Italian director Michele Vannucci, produced by Groenlandia and Kino Produzioni with Rai Cinema and sold by True Colours, will be presented at Locarno as an advance world premiere in Piazza Grande. Introducing the film on stage, together with the director, will be its stars Alessandro Borghi and Luigi Lo Cascio.
One of the screenings which is sure to light up the 75th Locarno Film Festival (3-13 August 2022), and its signature venue Piazz...
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The Locarno Film Festival is known not only for its gaze into the future of cinema, but also its steadfast commitment to reviving the cinema of the past in fresh contexts. For Locarno, the past is part of a continuous present. The Festival’s Retrospective, the section Histoire(s) du cinéma and the program Cinéma suisse redécouvert, world famous for their ability to stimulate long lasting artistic and cultural conv...
During its 75th edition (3-13 August 2022), the Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to Costa-Gavras, master of the cinema of civic engagement. The Greek-French director will receive the Pardo alla carriera Ascona-Locarno achievement award on the evening of Thursday 11 August, in Piazza Grande. On Friday 12 August Costa-Gavras will appear at the Forum @Spazio Cinema in a panel conversation with the audience, while spectators at Locarno75 will also have a chance to see two ...
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The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to U.S. composer, visual artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, a prize dedicated to creatives whose work has extended the horizons of the filmic image. The award will be handed over in a ceremony on Wednesday 10 August in Piazza Grande, followed on Thursday 11 August by a panel conversation with the audience at the Spazio Cinema, plus screenings of two titles directed by Ande...
Once again, Locarno will be the place where the corners of five European countries meet and where fledgling film projects find their early footing in the festival world. This is the Alliance 4 Development (A4D), Locarno Pro’s co-development initiative for film projects from France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland, which now welcomes new submissions for its seventh edition. This vital industry program, taking place at the Festival during the Locarno Pro days (August 5-7...
© Locarno Film Festival/Ti-Press Tuesday 12 April 2022 saw the signing at the PalaCinema in Locarno of a letter of intent whose terms will strengthen the partnership between Swatch and the Locarno Film Festival: from 2023 the Swiss watchmaker will become one of the event’s four Main partners.
The ties between Swatch and the Locarno Film Festival are set to become firmer than ever. The new partnership will build on years of close cooperation that have already brought impor...
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The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to Kelly Reichardt, one of the most original and independent voices in contemporary American filmmaking. Reichardt will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award on the evening of Friday 12 August in Piazza Grande. On Saturday 13 August at the Spazio Cinema she will be at the center of a panel conversation with the audience, who will also have a chance to see two stand-out titles from her career during Locarn...
Keen to repeat the success of last year, the Locarno Film Festival decided once again to hold an international competition, open to the younger generations, to design the graphic and aesthetic guidelines for its forthcoming edition. The winning design by artist Vito Manolo Roma mirrors a break with the past and gets across the spirit of the Festival’s 75th anniversary: to celebrate a long history of art and cinema, while opening a new chapter in the story.
The competitio...
The Locarno Film Festival is pleased to announce the launch of a new project named Locarno Residency, with the support of Swiss Life: a tutorial pathway for young filmmakers working on their feature-length directorial debut. The Residency provides tutorial assistance and a first-feature development support screenwriting program, with both online sessions and in-person group workshops in Locarno. Candidates can apply until 2 May 2022.
Following up on the 9th edition of L...
It’s the fourth time running for the Locarno Film Festival’s off-season, on-demand program, which extends the event’s horizons beyond the summer edition. On February 1-28, these 22 shorts will provide a taste of cinema while waiting for August, when the Festival, with features and shorts, will celebrate its 75th anniversary.
We watched them, we loved them, we gave them prizes, and now we start over, watching them again. Or for the first time, if you missed t...
The first piece to fall into place for the upcoming 75th anniversary edition of the Locarno Film Festival (3-13 August 2022) is the Retrospective, dedicated to master filmmaker Douglas Sirk, 35 years after his death. Valuable and previously unpublished documents from the archives of the Cinémathèque suisse will provide the key to unlocking a fresh critical interpretation, reviewing the historical context of a filmmaker rediscovered and much admired by the French N...
Saturday 14 August, brought the 74th Locarno Film Festival to a close with the final awards ceremony. The 2021 edition, the first held under new Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro, marks a major restart for the Festival. Last night in Piazza Grande also saw the announcement of the Variety Piazza Grande Award for ROSE by Aurélie Saada and the Prix du Public UBS for HINTERLAND by Stefan Ruzowitzky. The evening’s extra surprise came from John Landis, who handed the Lif...
The 2021 edition, the first under the artistic direction of Giona A. Nazzaro, ended successfully and awarded the Pardo d’oro to SEPERTI DENDAM, RINDU HARUS DIBAYAR TUNTAS (Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash) by Edwin. Furthermore, to end the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival with a surprise, tonight on the Piazza Grande the great master Dario Argento will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work and his surprising acting in VORTEX by Gaspar Noé.
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Locarno Pro, the area of the Locarno Film Festival dedicated to film industry professionals, is pleased to announce the partnership between the South Asia - Locarno Industry Academy and NFDC Film Bazaar, to be held online from 20 to 25 November 2021. A new edition of this training project - for the first time in the Asian continent – is intended to expand the network of young talents in the sector created in recent years by the Festival.
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