The official poster of the 62nd International Film Festival Locarno by Jannuzzi Smith.

The official poster of the 61st International Film Festival Locarno.

Chairs in the Piazza Grande for a film screening.

The screen in the Piazza.

The Film Festival Locarno (Italian: Festival del film Locarno) is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. The main feature of the festival is the open-air screening space in Piazza Grande, with room for over 8,000 spectators. The top prize is the Golden Leopard awarded to the best film in the international competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for outstanding directors’ career and the Prix the Public UBS for the public choice. Throughout its history the festival has discovered new trends and launched the career of Swiss directors. In the fiction category It is one of the ten best festivals in Europe. However, the festival is not very well seen in the documentary section where they tend to focus mostly on Swiss talents.

[edit] See also

• Leopard of Honour
• XDC

[edit] External links

• (English) (Italian) Locarno International Film Festival Official Site
• Locarno International Film Festival at Internet Movie Database

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