Piazza Grande Events, 12 August
- Presentation of Open Doors
- Screening of The Hundred-Foot Jurney by Lasse Hallström
Special Events/Conversations with guest
Round Table Titanus Retrospective at 10:00 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Roberto Turigliatto and Sergio M. Germani.
Open Doors Award Ceremony at 12:30 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Tiziana Mona.
"Rendez-vous du cinéma suisse" alle 14:30 alla Magnolia hosted by Catherine Ann Berger (SWISS F...
Daily Press Information
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Piazza Grande Events, 8 August
- Leopard Award to Mia Farrow
- Screening of Love Island introduced by director Jasmila Zbadic
- Screening of A Hitman Solitude Before the Shot introduced by director Mischa Böder
Special Events/Conversations with guests
Conversation with A...
Program changes
Estate Violenta by Valerio Zurlini will be screened at the Ex Rex at 9:00
Piazza Grande Events, 7 August
- Lifetime Achievement Award - Parmigiani to Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Screening of Dancing Arabsintroduced by director Eran Riklis
Special Events/Conversations with guests
Conversation with Rita Pavone at 12:00 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Giona Nazzaro.
Conversation with Melanie Griffith and Rachel McDonald at 17:00 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted ...
The Industry Office has joined forces with the Locarno Summer Academy to launch the pilot project Industry Academy (8 – 12 August), an educational, multi-disciplinary program for young industry professionals.
The Industry Academy will be a place where a group of nine young European professionals starting out in the areas of distribution, exhibition, sales and marketing, will meet with seasoned industry professionals. They come from six different countries: Bel...
Piazza Grande Events, 6 August
The opening ceremony will take place Wednesday 6 August on the Piazza Grande at 21:00.
- Presentation of the official juries of the three competitions
- Pardo alla Carriera to Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Screening of Lucy introduced by director Luc Besson
Special Events/Conversations with guests
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp character, the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to Chaplin with a screening of ...
The 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno, the second under Carlo Chatrian’s stewardship as Artistic Director, will be officially inaugurated by its President Marco Solari on Wednesday August 6.
At 16:00 at the Auditorium FEVI, marking the, the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to Charlie Chaplin to mark the centenary of his creation, the Tramp, via a screening of Modern Times with live musical accompaniment by the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, c...
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One of the most influential figures in film history, Roman Polanski, accompanied by the actress Emmanuelle Seigner, will be a guest of honor at the 67° Festival del film Locarno, where he will give a talk about film that is open to the public.
Director, actor, producer and screenwriter, Roman Polanski has had a profound impact on the history of modern cinema. His unmistakable humor and ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retain...
Difret by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
During the 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno, a special event will be organized in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).
Sunday, 10 August, the Ethiopian film Difret, by Zerezenay Berhane Mehari, will be presented in a special screening and followed by a panel discussion with the director, the producer of the film Mehret Mandefro, as well as Navi ...
Sunday 3 August and Tuesday 5 August will see the traditional Piazza Grande event with two free screenings to serve as a taster for the 67° Festival del film Locarno: Raiders of the Lost Ark and The 400 Blows.
As usual the Locarno Festival offers its residents and visitors two free evenings on the Piazza Grande which offer a privileged foretaste of the 67th edition (6 – 16 August).
The first Pre-Festival evening, on Sunday 3 August, goes Hollywood with a screening of...
Italian actor and director Giancarlo Giannini will attend the 67° Festival del film Locarno as one of the guests of honor of the Titanus retrospective and will receive an Excellence Award Moët & Chandon.
Following his successes in the theater, directed by Zeffirelli, and on television, Giancarlo Giannini made his film debut in 1965 in Gino Mangini’s I criminali della metropoli. In 1967 his talents as a singer and dancer led him to take on the ...
Pardo alla carriera to Jean-Pierre Léaud
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The 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud in awarding him a Pardo alla carriera, career award.
In honor of Jean-Pierre Léaud the Festival will screen 4 films spanning his career: Masculine-Feminine (Masculin Fémin, 1966) by Jean-Luc God...
Listen Up Philip by Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip (Concorso internazionale) and Joel Potrykus’s Buzzard (Concorso Cineasti del presente) signals the return of two filmmakers launched at recent editions of the Festival.
The 67th Festival del film Locarno (6 – 16 August) confirms its interest in leading figures in new indie American cinema, which has demonstrated a new vitality in recent years. Two directors launched, and winning awards...
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The multi-talented French director will receive the Pardo d’onore Swisscom during the 67° Festival del film Locarno (6 – 16 August).
After working as a theater photographer, Agnès Varda began directing in 1954 with the feature-length film La Pointe Courte, with Philippe Noiret, also at his first role. The film, which was edited by Alain Resnais, made an immediate impact as one of the most influential work...
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This is to announce the composition of the official juries for the Concorso internazionale, Concorso Cineasti del presente, Pardi di domani and Best first film.
The jury for the Concorso internazionale will have as its President the Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, winner of last year’s Leone d’oro at Venice for Sacro GRA. He will be accompanied by German filmmaker Thomas Arslan (Dealer, 1999; Gold,...
The official program for the 67° Festival del film Locarno has been announced.
The awards to Juliette Binoche (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Lifetime Achievement Award - Parmigiani) and Mia Farrow (Leopard Club Award) were also announced today.
Those attending Locarno will include Dario Argento, Olivier Assayas, Luc Besson, Garrett Brown, Suzanne Clément, Pedro Costa, Julie Depardieu, Lav Diaz, Víctor Erice, Flori...
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Luc Besson's eagerly awaited film Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, will open the 67° Festival del film Locarno on 6 August. The director will introduce the film on the Piazza Grande just ahead of the film's Swiss release.
Lucy is produced by EuropaCorp and distr...
Photo Courtesy of Teo Keng Beng
Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi will be the recipient of the Best Independent Producer Award.
The 67th Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, as the recipient of the Premio Raimondo Rezzonico for Best Independent Producer. A key player on the Asian film scene for over three decades, Nansun Shi has made a decisive contribution to the international ...
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The Festival del film Locarno’s Co-production Lab Open Doors is dedicated this year to Sub-Saharan Africa and especially to the English and Portuguese speaking countries. 12 projects will be brought to Locarno by their directors and producers to present them to potential partners.
With the support of the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Agency for Development and Cooperati...
The recipient of the Vision Award will be Oscar prize-winner Garrett Brown, creator of the revolutionary Steadicam®.
Following the award to special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull in 2013, the Festival continues its dedication to distinguishing those who, through their inspirations and technical knowledge, have left their mark on film history. The 67th edition of the Festival will pay tribute to the American cameraman Garrett Brown, who, in the 1970s created and perfected t...
The twelfth edition of Open Doors will be dedicated to Sub-Saharan Africa.
With support from the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Open Doors aims to support and highlight films and filmmakers from the South and the East, where independent filmmaking is vulnerable, via a focus on a different region every year. The next edition will explore Sub-Saharan Africa, following the spotlight on Francophone African countries in 2012. 2014...
Director Edgar Reitz, who has so brilliantly explored German history in his saga Heimat, will be the guest of honour at the second edition of L’immagine e la parola (12-15 April 2014).
Following Aleksandr Sokurov, who featured in the first edition, another great master of European cinema will be centre stage at the Festival del film Locarno’s spring spin-off event. Edgar Reitz, a master of New German cinema, and the auteur behind the saga Heimat, in which he...
The Retrospective for the 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno (6–16 August 2014) will be dedicated to the Italian production studio Titanus.
The Locarno Festival will pay tribute to this major production studio, following the Lux retrospective in 1984. Thanks to close collaboration with the present-day Titanus, the program will be a very comprehensive exploration of the role this production company, founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, has played from its or...
The fourth edition of Carte Blanche, the Festival del film Locarno’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production, will focus on Brazil.
Thanks to a partnership with Cinema do Brasil, Carte Blanche will select five to seven films in post-production. The producers of the selected films will participate at the Locarno Festival, where they will present their projects to film industry professionals. In order to facilitate post-production and sales, the work...
At the Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland, August 7-17, 2013), the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI PRIZE went to:
"What Now? Remind Me" (E agora? Lembra-me)
by Joaquim Pinto (Portugal, 2013),
shown in the International Competition.
"The Portuguese director chronicles a year in his life trialling HIV drugs, and spreads his net ambitiously wider for a m...
