For the Future of Films is the 2020 edition of the Locarno Film Festival. This special edition, designed to be a "year zero", gathering films and viewers in the great digital Piazza that is the world wide web. The audience will connect from all over the world to discover the premieres of today and support the films of tomorrow. The future begins now, and Locarno will always be on the side of cinema.

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Film

The Locarno Film Festival without film? Impossible. Locarno 2020 will consist of online screenings, VOD platforms, short films, journeys into the history of cinema and, via Open Doors, glimpses into films yet to come. Like every year, but like never before, Locarno will be cinema.

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Pro

This year Locarno, the summer capital of auteur cinema, will be a virtual meeting point for the film industry. The Festival will continue to carry out its mission of supporting independent film by showcasing new projects from the South-East that aim to forge new connections and inspire fresh discourse.

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Community

The Locarno Film Festival is and remains a family, even from afar. Free from the restrictions of space and time, Locarno 2020 will host online masterclasses, Q&As, conversations, stories and experiences. Locarno is staying connected, no matter what.

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Awards

Like never before, Locarno will look to the future with The Films After Tomorrow, a competition focusing on films that were disrupted by the lockdown this year. Also essential to our focus on the future are the shorts in the Pardi di domani competition, as well as Open Doors, which have been supporting filmmaking in emerging countries for 18 years.

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