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In 2020, the Locarno Film Festival is expanding its reach by bringing its films to global web audiences. It will do so through its own platform, Play.locarnofestival.ch, and through partnerships with other important VOD platforms. Discover all the possibilities to see the Festival's films online!
Thanks to its new website, the Locarno Film Festival is able to offer a platform for viewers who want to experience Locarno 2020 from a distance. All viewing options available on Play.locarnofestival.ch are listed on the edition’s program
By extending and increasing its collaborations with VOD platforms, the Locarno Film Festival aims to help shine a light on independent and auteur cinema, starting with many titles shown at the Festival throughout its long history. In August, all these unforgettable cinematic moments are available directly in viewers' homes.
Swisscom
The partnership between the Festival and Swisscom continues in the name of innovation, with a new cross-media initiative to bring cinema into viewers’ homes. As always, Swisscom TV will feature a program dedicated to the Festival, with a selection of films on-demand recommended by Swiss personalities from the world of art, sports and culture. Special editions of Teleclub, such as Zoom Mania and Zoom Persönlich, will focus on this program and deal with topics that are close to the Festival’s heart, with a more in-depth look at the films that helped shape the event’s identity. Additional contributions on Bluewin.ch will complete this Locarno 2020 cross-media initiative.
For those following the Festival from outside of Switzerland, the rendezvous point is undoubtedly MUBI, one of the most important worldwide resources for auteur cinema online and a reference point for new cinephilia, not least thanks to the possibility of creating your own profile and exchanging opinions and tips with film buffs all over the world. Depending on the country you’re based in, during Locarno 2020 you will be able to access some of the films from the section A Journey in the Festival’s History, a selection of both acclaimed and obscure works, all of them surprising and modern, reflecting the Festival’s spirit of discovery across 72 years.
Click here for the program, available on our website to see which films will be available on MUBI.
Past works by some of the filmmakers selected for The Films After Tomorrow will feature on Tënk, the young European VOD platform devoted entirely to auteur documentaries. From 31 July, for eight weeks, the service will feature Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Leviathan (2012), screened in the Concorso internazionale at Locarno65; Mateo Ybarra’s short Oiseaux de nuit (2018); Miko Revereza’s short Distancing (2019), presented in the Moving Ahead section at Locarno72; Pierre-François Sauter’s Face au juge (2009); and Eric Baudelaire’s The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011). Each film is introduced with a text written by the Locarno Film Festival Selection Committee.
Also available from 7 August to 3 October 2020 will be Il Monte delle Formiche (2017) by Riccardo Palladino, presented in Locarno in Concorso Cineasti del presente and viewable on Tënk from all over Europe except Italy; Le Fort des fous (2017) by Nerimane Mari, in Concorso Cineasti del presente at the Festival in 2017; Pianomania (2009) by Robert Cibis and Lilian Franck, which screened in Locarno’s Semaine de la critique in 2009.
It is also possible to discover some of the films presented in past editions of the Festival on MYmovies.it, the cinema magazine and database, an excellent source for Italian viewers, which from 10 to 13 August presents one film on-demand a day. In order: If Only (2019) by Ginevra Elkann, the opening film at Locarno72; Non è sogno (2019) by Giovanni Cioni, Fuori concorso at Locarno72; The Guest (2018) by Duccio Chiarini, presented in Piazza Grande at Locarno71; and Menocchio the Heretic (2018) by Alberto Fasulo, presented in Concorso internazionale at Locarno71. All the films will be available free of charge on MYmovies.it for the Italian territory upon active booking from 4 August onwards.
You can find many other films from the history of the Locarno Film Festival on the page dedicated to the LocarnoHomeFestival, a project born during the lockdown as an expression of sympathy towards the public and the film industry. LocarnoHomeFestival offers to inform the public about films that were presented in past editions of the Festival and are currently available on various online streaming platforms, either free of charge or for a fee (the availability of individual films on the same platform may vary from country to country).