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Locarno Film Festival
Over the seventy-plus years of its history, the Locarno Film Festival has earned a secure position on the leading edge of the prestigious international film festival scene. Lying at the heart of Italian-speaking Switzerland on the shore of Lake Maggiore, with the Alps at its back, Locarno is transformed for eleven days each August into the world capital of auteur cinema, becoming a meeting place for thousands of fans who share a passion for filmmaking in all its variety. The Festival celebrates and supports film as an art form, rewarding the festival-going public — the real soul of the event — with a program that is rich, eclectic and surprising year after year. In Locarno, movies can be watched in the magical darkness of a theater, or enjoyed in the open air, against the stunning backdrop of the Piazza Grande, among an audience of up to eight thousand people. At the same time, the Locarno Film Festival is a vital event in the film industry calendar, attracting both established professionals and emerging talents with a raft of dedicated initiatives in its Locarno Pro and Locarno Young programs. The Festival also welcomes the many prestigious guests who travel to present their films, or are invited to receive awards for career achievements in cinema.
Film Sections
Sections open to submissions
Concorso internazionale
The Concorso internazionale presents as world or international premieres a selection of fiction feature films, documentaries, or animated films over 60 minutes in length. This panorama of contemporary auteur cinema includes films by young talents alongside work by established filmmakers.
Concorso Cineasti del presente
The Concorso Cineasti del presente is reserved for first and second fulllength features over 60 minutes. This section offers a selection of films as world or international premieres, ranging from documentary to fiction and including the most hybrid and up-to-date forms of cinematic creativity.
Pardi di domani
The Pardi di domani section presents as a world or international premiere short and medium-length films not more than 59 minutes in length. All genres are eligible. This section includes two competitions open for filmmakers who have not yet made feature-length films: one reserved for Swiss productions and co-productions (Concorso nazionale), while the other is open to works from the rest of the world (Concorso internazionale). A third competitive program (Corti d’autore) presents works by well-established filmmakers exploring new narrative forms and innovative film language.
Sections not open to submissions
Piazza Grande
The Piazza Grande section offers as world, international or European premieres works intended for a mainstream audience but made by genuine auteur filmmakers, with original genre films and the best of recently made documentaries.
Fuori concorso
The Fuori concorso selection offers recent works – feature films and shorts, film essays and documentaries – by well-established filmmakers, mainly as world or international premieres.
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Histoire(s) du cinéma is the sidebar dedicated to the history of cinema. It offers works from filmmakers and artists to whom the Festival dedicates special tributes, restored prints of rare and important works, but also films (documentaries, essays, experimental and hybrid films) that shed new light on the history of cinema.
Retrospettiva
The Retrospettiva – a historical or thematic program, or the complete works of a major filmmaker – is designed to make a contribution to the history of cinema or to enable the audience to (re)discover the body of work of an important auteur.
Open Doors
Open Doors Screenings is a non-competitive section, focusing in 2021 on a selection of films from the cinematographic and cultural universe of the following countries: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Mongolia. Open Doors is organized with the collaboration of the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and from 2019 to 2021 is exploring South East Asia and Mongolia. For more information and regulations:
www.locarnofestival.ch/opendoors
Locarno Kids
The Locarno Kids section offers films for children and teenagers. It has a special emphasis on works screening as national premieres, together with restored titles that help rediscover film history.
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About Locarno Film Festival Every August, around 200,000 cinema-goers, over 1,100 journalists, and 3,200 professionals converge on the small Swiss-Italian town of Locarno,which becomes the world capital of cinema. View my profile Send me a message My festival |
