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A Long Day of Shorts

Filmmakers are adept at challenging perceptions, engaging an audience and presenting a different point of view. In this collection we see how voices can disguise, images can’t always be trusted, position and authority can betray...

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Cropped Youth

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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Locarno and Campari, together

Supporting Theatres

Closer to Life
Rediscover 73 years of Festival, relive 40 years of Partnership

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Locarno 2020 Projects

Projects & Initiatives

Discutiamo, discutiamo

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Locarno Kids

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Locarno Academy

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As a meeting point for people who make and work in cinema, the Locarno Film Festival has always been a place for reflection and debate on moving images, their future and their history. That’s why development and promotion of the Festival archive are two key concepts of the Locarno 2020 Projects.

The Films After Tomorrow

The Locarno 2020 initiative to restart cinema

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Twenty feature-length projects to be completed, ten international and twelve Swiss filmmakers, two special Pardi, and other awards. And, for the audience, a journey through the Festival’s history with films chosen by the selected directors.

Locarno 2020

Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films is the edition of the Locarno Film Festival devoted to the support of the film industry in the year of the global health crisis. A new festival concept, which guarantees concrete support for independent auteur cinema through physical and online initiatives. 

Film Sections


The Locarno Film Festival rethinks its structure, strengthening its commitment to the future of films and filmmakers all over the world: six sections and three competitions to explore the future imagined by the cinema, as always in the name of quality and independence.

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Projects


As a meeting point for people who make and work in cinema, the Locarno Film Festival has always been a place for reflection and debate on moving images, their future and their history. That’s why development and promotion of the Festival archive are two key concepts of the Locarno 2020 Projects.

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Practical guide


Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films is the edition of the Locarno Film Festival devoted to the support of the film industry in the year of the global health crisis. A new festival concept, which guarantees concrete support for independent auteur cinema through physical and online initiatives.

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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.

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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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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