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How has a pandemic year changed cinema? Is the future a match between movie theaters and on-demand platforms or are there other possible horizons? And in all this, what role can or should festivals play?

News · 06 | 04 | 2021

Alliance 4 Development: a four-way split for cinema

Applications are invited from Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy for Alliance 4 Development, the Locarno Pro initiative for film projects still in the development phase in the four countries, in a perspective of enhanced international sharing and cooperation

News · 06 | 04 | 2021

Roger Corman: The Man Who (Re)invented Cinema

News · 15|02|2021

Swiss Cinema, Love at First Sight

News · 26 | 03 | 2021

Swiss films are alive and well.

News · 26 | 03 | 2021

Tavernier, a Master of Cinema

About the Locarno Film Festival

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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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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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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.

Projects & Initiatives

Discutiamo, discutiamo - Locarno Conversations

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Locarno Kids HomeMade Movies

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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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