The award ceremony of the 8th Doc Alliance Selection Award will take place for the first time at the Festival del film Locarno during the Industry Days. The name of the new award winner will be announced on 8 August, in the presence of Doc Alliance festival directors and the jury.
The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote quality creative...
The American actor, director and producer Edward Norton will be among the guests at the 68th Festival del film Locarno, where he will be awarded the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon.
Carlo Chatrian, Festival’s Artistic Director: “I’m very happy and proud to welcome Edward Norton to Locarno. He is someone who has shown immense talent in giving shape to characters as fascinating and complex as the times in which we live. I’m certain that his presence will leave i...
This 2015 edition of the Locarno Summer Academy launches a new section: the Industry Academy, a new training program dedicated to young industry professionals in distribution, sales, marketing, exhibition and programming. This initiative, designed and moderated by Marion Klotz, will be held between 5 and 12 August in close relation with the Industry Days.
Marion Klotz: “We received a large number of appl...
The Italian director will be honored with the Pardo d’onore Swisscom during the 68th Festival del film Locarno. To mark the occasion there will be a Piazza Grande screening of I pugni in tasca (Fists in the Pocket), some 50 years after its first screening at Locarno.
The 68th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will award the Pardo d’onore Swisscom to Marco Bellocchio. With this award the Festival pays tribute to an extraordinarily rich career, and affi...
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The Festival del film Locarno’s Co-production Lab Open Doors is dedicated this year to four countries from the Maghreb: Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. 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 Cooperation (SDC), Open Doors aims to support and highlight filmmakers from a region in...
Pardo alla carriera to Bulle Ogier
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The French actress Bulle Ogier will receive a Pardo alla carriera at the 68th Festival del film Locarno.
The 68th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the French actress Bulle Ogier with a Pardo alla carriera. Following tributes to Anna Karina (2013) and Jean-Pierre Léaud (2014), with this Award the Festival aims to continue its re-reading of the legacy of the Nouvelle Vague, and pay homage ...
The Festival del film Locarno and Art Basel introduce a new collaboration. The first outcome of this synergy will be a special program dedicated to Duncan Campbell.
The Festival President Marco Solari announces a new collaboration between the Festival del film Locarno and Art Basel: “Two events with a big importance and tradition – already associated by the Top Events of Switzerland label – join forces. A significant synergy for the Festival on the Swiss and international cult...
At a press conference at Locarno the full program for the third edition of L’immagine e la parola, the Festival del film Locarno’s spring event, part of Primavera Locarnese, was announced. Guests of honor are French writer, screenwriter and filmmaker Emmanuel Carrère –co-curator of the program –, Oscar winning director Pawel Pawlikowski and actress and director Valeria Golino.
L’immagine e la parola, held 19 – 22 March, at the venu...
Walter Murch, the triple Oscar winning editor and sound designer, will be the recipient of the Vision Award - Nescens at the 68th Festival del film Locarno.
Continuing the Festival’s policy of recognizing those individuals whose intuitions and skills have left their mark on film history, the 68th edition will see the Vision Award - Nescens awarded to Walter Murch, the editor and sound designer (a term he coined himself). This award follows those previously att...
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The fifth edition of Carte Blanche, the Festival del film Locarno’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production, this year turns the spotlight on Israel. The films that will be selected will have the chance to be presented to the professionals attending Locarno during the Industry Days.
Thanks to a partnership with the Israel Film Fund, which coordinates the Israeli works in progress of the initiative, Carte Blanche will select 5 to 7 fi...
The Italian actress and director will be a guest at the Festival di Locarno's spring event in Locarno and Ascona 19 – 22 March. Valeria Golino, alongside Emmanuel Carrère, will perform in a staged reading from the French writer's latest novel, “Le Royaume”. Additionally, she will also introduce the film she directed, “Miele”, along with co-screenwriters Francesca Marciano and Valia Santella.
The program of the film of L’immagine e ...
AdaptLab: from page to screen
This year L’immagine e la parola (19 – 22 March) will be joined by a session of AdaptLab, a workshop on the adaptation of literary works for the screen, developed by TorinoFilmLab and addressing industry professionals.
This major initiative from TorinoFilmLab will take place at Locarno for the very first time. AdaptLab will hold its inaugural session from 19 t...
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The Polish filmmaker, director of the critically acclaimed Ida, is to be among the guests of the third spring-time literature event of the Festival del film Locarno.
This year will also see Locarno hosting for the first time a session of AdaptLab, a workshop on the adaptation of literary works for the screen, developed by TorinoFilmLab and addressing industry professionals.
The presence of Pawel Pawlikowski adds an extra facet to the program for L&...
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Emmanuel Carrère, the French author, screenwriter and director will be the focus of the Festival del film Locarno’s spring event’s third edition, L’immagine e la parola (19 – 22 March). The Festival has invited Carrère, a multi-faceted talent with a taste for formal experiment, to curate a program of screenings and encounters that will explore his creative world, and investigate relationships between film and the w...
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Locarno Industry Days’ new initiative gives continuity to the past editions of post-production showcase Carte Blanche hosting the most promising upcoming producers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
From its first edition in 2011, the Festival del film Locarno post-production showcase Carte Blanche, focusing every year in a selected country, has given the possibility to producers of the most promising ...
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The thirteenth edition of Open Doors will be dedicated to four countries from the Maghreb: Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
With the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Open Doors aims to highlight and offer support to films and filmmakers...
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On Saturday 16 August on the Piazza Grande the awards were presented to the winners of the 67th Festival del film Locarno, before an audience of 5,000 people. The 2014 edition, the second under Carlo Chatrian’s artistic direction, concluded on a high note, and was crowned with the Pardo d’oro going to the film MULA SA KUNG ANO ANG NOON (From What Is Before) by Lav Diaz.
Festival President Marco Solari officially closed the 67th edition,...
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
MULA SA KUNG ANO ANG NOON (From What Is Before) by Lav Diaz, Philippines
Premio speciale della giuria
LISTEN UP PHILIP by Alex Ross Perry, United States
Pardo per la miglior regia
PEDRO COSTA for CAVALO DINHEIRO, Portugal
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile
ARIANE LABED for FIDELIO, L’ODYSSÉE D’ALICE by Lucie Borleteau, France
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile
ARTEM BYSTROV for DURAK (The Fool) by ...
Press conference palmarès
This year the press conference of the official juries awards will take place on Saturday, August 16th, at the Palazzo Morettini at 11:00, without embargo. The press release will follow and will include the independent juries awards. The award ceremony will take place at 21:00 on the Piazza Grande. The independent juries ceremony will be at 16:30 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum).
Additional screenings
African Metropolis: Homecoming / The Line...
Piazza Grande Events, 14 August
- Vision Award - Nescens to Garrett Brown
- Screening of Pause introduced by director Mathieu Urfer
- Screening of La Vénus à la fourrure by Roman Polanski
Special Events/Conversations with guest
The Locarno Critics Academy Panel at 13:30 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Eric Kohn
Masterclass with Aleksandr Sokurov at 15:00 at the PalaVideo hosted by Alessandro
Marcionni with students of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University...
Piazza Grande Events, 13 August
- Pardo alla carriera to Víctor Erice
- Screening of Schweizer Helden by Peter Luisi
Special Events/Conversations with guest
Conversation with Víctor Erice, Pardo alla carriera, at 10:00 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Miguel Marías.
Conversation with Giancarlo Giannini, Excellence Award Moët & Chandon, at 12:00 at the Spazio Cinema (Forum) hosted by Daniela Persico.
Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
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Today saw the announcement of the awards for the Open Doors Co-production Lab, organized with support from the Swiss Agency for...
The Festival del film Locarno regrets to announce that Roman Polanski has decided to cancel his visit to its 67th edition.
Only a short while ago, the leadership of the Festival has received the following message from Roman Polanski (in Italian):
”Dear Friends,
I am sorry to inform you that having considered the extent to which my planned appearance at the Locar...
