Facts and Figures

The Facts&Figures page contains information arrived by the end of June. Complete and continually updated information will be available on the Festival website.

Submissions 

Total: 4,432 
Features: 1,375 
Shorts: 3,057

Festival

This data includes movies selected at the time the Press Kit was published. It is possible that additional films may be selected. Updated data will be available on the Festival website.

Programmed films: 209
World premieres: 100
International premieres: 8
First Features:  21
First Feature eligible for First Feature Award: 19

Countries of production

These statistics include films from: Piazza Grande: Prefestival, Piazza Grande, Concorso internazionale, Concorso Cineasti del presente, Pardi di domani, Fuori concorso, the World or International premieres selected in Histoire(s) du Cinéma, and the World or International premieres of the Open Doors section.

Submissions 

Features 

Main countries of production: 100 
Including co-production countries:115 

Shorts 

Main countries of production: 121 
Including co-production countries: 131 

Selection 

Features 

Main countries of production: 29
Including co-productions: 45

Shorts 

Main countries of production: 27
Including co-productions: 34

Swiss Films 

Swiss productions in the 2021 selection: 32

Swiss productions

Piazza Grande: Prefestival

LYNX by Laurent Geslin – Switzerland/France – 2021 

Piazza Grande

MONTE VERITÀ by Stefan Jäger – Switzerland /Austria/Germany – 2021 

Concorso internazionale

SOUL OF A BEAST by Lorenz Merz – Switzerland – 2021 

Concorso Cineasti del presente

WET SAND by Elene Naveriani – Switzerland /Georgia – 2021 

ZAHORÍ by Marí Alessandrini – Switzerland /Argentina/Chile/France – 2021 

Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale

CAVALES by Juliette Riccaboni – Switzerland – 2021 

CHUTE by Nora Longatti – Switzerland – 2021 

DIHYA by Lucia Martinez Garcia – Switzerland – 2021 

DING by Pascale Egli, Aurelio Ghirardelli– Switzerland – 2021 

ES MUSS by Jumana Issa, Flavio Luca Marano– Switzerland – 2021 

MR. PETE & THE IRON HORSE by Kilian Vilim – Switzerland – 2021 

REAL NEWS by Luka Popadić – Switzerland /Serbia – 2021 

THE LIFE UNDERGROUND by Loïc Hobi – Switzerland – 2021 

Pardi di domani: Corti d’autore

IL FAUT FABRIQUER SES CADEAUX by Cyril Schäublin – Switzerland – 2021 

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Cinéma suisse redécouvert

LA SUISSE S'INTERROGE by Henry Brandt – Switzerland – 1964

LES NOMADES DU SOLEIL by Henry Brandt – Switzerland – 1954

QUAND NOUS ÉTIONS PETITS ENFANTS by Henry Brandt – Switzerland – 1961 

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Cinéma suisse redécouvert - Heritage Online

DERBORENCE by Francis Reusser – Switzerland – 1985

Locarno Kids: Screenings

CLOROFILLA DAL CIELO BLU by Victor J. Tognola – Switzerland – 1984

Semaine de la critique

STAND UP MY BEAUTY by Heidi Specogna – Switzerland /Germany – 2021

Swiss co-productions in the 2021 selection: 4

Swiss co-productions

Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale

AFTER A ROOM by Naomi Pacifique – United Kingdom/Netherlands/ Switzerland – 2021 

FOUR PILLS AT NIGHT by Leart Rama – Kosovo/Svizzera – 2021 

Pardi di domani: Corti d’autore

CRIATURA by María Silvia Esteve – Argentina/Svizzera – 2021 

Semaine de la critique

A THOUSAND FIRES by Saeed Taji Farouky – Francia/Svizzera/Paesi Bassi – 2021 

Gender evaluation 

The gender of direction was calculated based on the SWAN (Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network) method that defines 4 categories (woman, man, non-binary, and mixed direction). A fifth category was added to include the “prefers not to disclose” choice.

The five genders of direction taken into consideration are the following:
Woman = the directors identify as women.
Man = the directors identify as man.
Non-binary = the directors identify as non-binary.
Not disclosed = the directors’ gender was not disclosed.
Mixed direction = the directors identify heterogeneously as female, male, non-binary or not disclosed.

Submission 

Features 

Direction: 311 women (22,6%), 974 men (70,8%), 6 non-binary (0,4%), 57 mixed direction (4,1%), 27 not disclosed (2,0%). 

Shorts 

Direction: 1029 women (33,7%), 1787 men (58.5%), 42 non-binary (1,4%), 123 mixed direction (4,0%), 76 not disclosed (2,5%). 

Selection 

Features 

Direction: 16 women (28%), 40 men (70,2%), 1 non-binary (1,75%).

Shorts 

Direction: 19 women (41,3%), 22 men (47,8%), 1 non-binary (2,2%), 3 mixed direction (6,5%), 1 not disclosed(2,2%).

Per section:

• 4 out of 17 films in Concorso internazionale were directed by women (23,5%)
• 2 out of 16 films in Piazza Grande (12,5%) and 1 out of 2 films in Piazza Grande: Prefestival were directed by women (50%)
• 8 out of 15 films in Concorso Cineasti del presente were directed by women (53,3%)
• 1 out of 7 films in Fuori concorso were directed by women (14,3%)
• 1 out of 4 films premiering in Histoire(s) du cinéma were directed by women (25%)
• 2 out of 10 films in Pardi di domani: Concorso Corti d’autore were directed by women (20%) and 1 film is a mixed co-direction (10%)
• 9 out of 20 films in Pardi di domani: Concorso internazionale were directed by women (45%)
• 4 out of 10 films in Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale were directed by women (40%) and 2 films are mixed co-directions (20%)
• 3 out of 5 films premiering in Open Doors: Shorts were directed by women (60%)

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