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Locarno Film Festival
Piazza Grande Locarno.jpg
Piazza Grande screening venue
Location Locarno, Switzerland
Founded 1946
Website www.pardo.ch
Locarno Film Festival
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The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno,
Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and
non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short,
avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an
open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators.[1][2][3]

The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in
the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for
career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award.

Contents
1 History
2 Awards
2.1 Competitive Awards
2.1.1 Concorso internazionale (international competition) - Awards
2.1.2 Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) - Awards
2.1.3 Pardi di domani (Leopards of Tomorrow) - Awards
3 Direction and management
4 Gallery
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History

The open-air screening of the Locarno Film Festival on the Piazza Grande is
featured on the Swiss twenty-franc banknote since 2017.
The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of
Locarno with the screening of the movie O sole mio by Giacomo Gentilomo.[2] The
first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen
movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was Rome, Open City directed by
Roberto Rossellini, And Then There Were None directed by René Clair (1945), Double
Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944) and The Song of Bernadette by Henry King (1943).

Later, the Festival del film Locarno presented features and short films by many
international directors such as Claude Chabrol, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Verhoeven,
Miloš Forman, Marco Bellocchio, Glauber Rocha, Raúl Ruiz, Alain Tanner, Mike Leigh,
Béla Tarr, Chen Kaige, Edward Yang, Alexandr Sokurov, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch,
Ang Lee, Gregg Araki, Christoph Schaub, Catherine Breillat, Abbas Kiarostami, Gus
Van Sant, Pedro Costa, Fatih Akin, Claire Denis and Kim Ki-Duk.

The 73rd edition, scheduled from 5 to 15 August 2020, has been cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic; in its place was held the special edition called "Locarno 2020 -
For the Future of Films". The festival has asked high-profile directors including
Lucrecia Martel and Lav Diaz to select films from the festival's 74-year history
for a retrospective that will be screened online and in physical locations.[4][5]
The 74th Locarno Film Festival took place from 4 to 14 August 2021. Over 75,000
people attended.[6]

Awards
Competitive Awards
Concorso internazionale (international competition) - Awards
Pardo d'oro (Golden Leopard). Grand Prize of the festival, awarded by the city and
region of Locarno, for the best film in the concorso internazionale (international
competition), that is shared equally between the director and the producer.
Special Jury Prize. Prize, awarded by cities of Ascona and Losone, for the second
best film in the concorso internazionale (international competition), that is
shared equally between the director and the producer.
Leopard for Best Direction. Prize, awarded by the city and region of Locarno, for
the best directed film in the concorso internazionale (international competition).
Leopard for Best Actress.
Leopard for Best Actor.
Swatch First Feature Awards. Prize awarded by a jury of international critics to
the first works presented in the sections concorso internazionale, concorso
Cineasti del presente, Fuori concorso, Moving ahead (ex Signs of Life) and Piazza
Grande.
Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) - Awards
Pardo d'oro Cineasti del presente (Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present).
Prize awarded to the best film of this competition, which is dedicated to first or
second features.
Ciné+ Special Jury Prize – Cineasti del presente. The French television channel
Ciné+ Club offers the broadcast rights to the winning film and guarantees the
broadcast on their channel.
Pardo per il miglior regista emergente (Leopard for Best New Director): Prize for
the best new director.
Pardo per la migliore opera prima (Leopard for the Best First Feature). Prize which
has been awarded from 2006 to 2009 to the best first work screened in the
competition concorso internazionale or concorso Cineasti del presente.
Pardi di domani (Leopards of Tomorrow) - Awards
Pardino d'oro for the Best International Short Film – SRG SSR Prize. Prize awarded
to the best short film in the international short film competition Pardi di domani.
Pardino d'oro for the Best Swiss Short Film – Swiss Life Prize. Prize awarded to
the best short film in the national short film competition Pardi di domani.
Pardino d'argento SSR SRG for the international competition. Prize awarded to a
film in the international competition Pardi di domani.
Pardino d'argento Swiss Life for the national competition. Prize awarded to a film
in the national competition Pardi di domani.
Locarno short film nominee for the European Film Awards – Pianifica Prize. The
prize, which is offered by the studio Pianifica, goes to a short film made by a
European director, presented in one of the two competitions. The award includes an
automatic nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.
Prize for Best Swiss Newcomer. The prize provides equipment offered by Cinegrell,
Visuals SA, Freestudios SA, Taurus Studio e Avant-première SA/Film Demnächst AG.
Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG. The winning film will be subtitled in three
central European languages. This subtitling can be inserted on film, video or DVD
format.
Direction and management
Artistic Directors:

1946–1958: Riccardo Bolla

1960–1965: Vinicio Beretta
1966: Sandro Bianconi
1967–1970: Sandro Bianconi, Freddy Buache
1971: Commission of direction, composed of seven members from Ticino
1972–1977: Moritz de Hadeln
1978–1981: Jean-Pierre Brossard
1982–1991: David Streiff
1992–2000: Marco Müller
2000–2005: Irene Bignardi
2005–2009: Frédéric Maire
2010–2012: Olivier Père
2012–2018: Carlo Chatrian[7]
2018–2020: Lili Hinstin[8]
2020: Nadia Dresti (ad interim)
2021–: Giona A. Nazzaro
Presidents:

1946–1955: Camillo Beretta

1957–1962: Enrico Franzioni
1963–1968: Fernando Gaja
1970–1980: Luciano Giudici
1981–1999: Raimondo Rezzonico
Since 2000: Marco Solari
Chief Operating Officers:

2006–2013: Marco Cacciamognaga

2013–2017: Mario Timbal
Since August 2017: Raphaël Brunschwig
Gallery

Piazza Grande screening venue

The screen in the Piazza Grande

Night life during the Festival, Locarno City Garden.

The official Leopard of Locarno Festival by Jannuzzi Smith

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