Besides the ones in Piazza Grande and the city cinemas, the Locarno Film Festival will also be on the screens, monitors and television sets of the audience that won’t be able to come to Locarno. With one eye on the competition and one in the past, Locarno75 will offer, via a wide array of platforms and partnerships, a selection of films that best sum up the Festival’s spirit. From the passion for short films to the focus on distant filmmaking countries, from first features among which to discover future talents to those who have already taken their first steps, last year in Locarno. 

This year, the Festival’s platform will serve as a window looking over the other side of the world. Thanks to play.locarnofestival.ch, you will be able to watch the entire Open Doors short film selection, coming from Central America and the Caribbean. Worldwide, and free of charge, ten shorts from Cuba, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, for a first serving of the new three-year focus Open Doors is devoting to Latin American and the Caribbean.

To relive the history of the Festival, one can also enjoy the storytelling of journalist and author Lorenzo Buccella with Locarno Confidential. The documentary, commissioned by RSI to celebrate Locarno75, produced by Michael Beltrami and directed by Chris Guidotti, will be available on SRG SSR’s streaming platform Play Suisse, starting August 3.