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Applications for Locarno 74 are open

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News · 11 | 11 | 2020

Submissions Are Open for Locarno74

As of today, you can submit your feature or short film for the 2021 edition of the Locarno Film Festival

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News · 22 | 12 | 2020

Nomads Land. Cinema is coming back

The Open Doors journey through Southeast Asia reaches Mongolia. It’s a vast land, a land of few, the land of Genghis Khan. It’s a land where cinema has the space, and the talent, to grow (again).

Organization

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Locarno 74 is coming and we are looking for a Head of Hospitality, a Programming Office Assistant and a Head of Documentation Office

News · 10 | 12 | 2020

Closer to Life, also in 2021

News · 18 | 12 | 2020

Farewell 2020, Time to Reconvene

Locarno Film Festival

Film Sections

With 11 sections, 3 competitions and 20 awards, quality and variety are key. This is the framework of a Festival that explores cinema from every perspective, to discover in the present the filmmakers and films destined to have a future.

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Special Awards

Pardo d’onore Manor, Excellence Award, Premio Raimondo Rezzonico, Vision Award Ticinomoda, Leopard Club Award, Prix du Public UBS, Premio Cinema Ticino, Pardo alla carriera... These are the Festival’s special awards that every year celebrate the personalities who are writing the history of cinema.

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Palmarès

75 years of history, 73 editions to celebrate cinema... first with the Vela d'oro, then with the iconic golden leopard, the Pardo d'oro.

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Relive Locarno 2020

For the Future of Films

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For the Future of Films was the 2020 edition of the Locarno Film Festival. This special edition, designed to be a "year zero", gathered films and viewers in the great digital Piazza that is the world wide web and in our local theaters.

Projects & Initiatives

Discutiamo, discutiamo - Locarno Conversations

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Projects & Initiatives

UBS and the Locarno Film Festival: celebrating 40 years of Partnership

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Projects & Initiatives

Locarno Kids HomeMade Movies

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Locarno Pro

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Gathering under its wings the different initiatives and services that professionals have been accessing over the years, Locarno Pro aims to enhance and deepen connections between the diverse players circulating around films in the Festival.

Rediscover 74 years of Festival

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About the Locarno Film Festival

Throughout its 73-year history, the Locarno Film Festival has occupied a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals. Every August, for eleven days the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno, right in the heart of Europe, becomes the world capital of auteur cinema.

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Partners

Our public and private sector Partners are the ones who make the organization of the Locarno Film Festival possible, providing invaluable and tangible support year after year, and thus demonstrating their strong sense of duty to culture and to our region.

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