Locarno Film Festival
locarno film festival major international film festival held annually locarno switzerland founded festival screen film various competitive noncompetitive section including featurelength narrative documentary short avantgarde retrospective program piazza grande section held openair venue seat spectator top prize festival golden leopard awarded best film international competition award include leopard honour career achievement prix du public public choice award locarno film festival started august grand hotel locarno screening movie sole mio giacomo gentilomo first edition organized less three month lineup fifteen movie mainly american italian among rome open city directed roberto rossellini none directed rené clair double indemnity billy wilder song bernadette henry king later locarno film festival presented feature short film many international director 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 gu van sant pedro costa fatih akin claire denis kim kiduk rd edition scheduled august cancelled due covid pandemic cancelled first time since world war ii place special edition called locarno – future film held festival asked highprofile director including lucrecia martel lav diaz select film festival year history retrospective screened online physical location th locarno film festival took place august people attended th locarno film festival took place august opened brad pitt film bullet train th locarno film festival took place august year edition acting category best actorbest actress became genderneutral creation best performance category th locarno film festival took place august year festival announced launch new award collaboration social medium site letterboxd th locarno film festival take place august concorso internazionale international competition – award pardo doro golden leopard grand prize festival awarded city region locarno best film concorso internazionale international competition special jury prize prize awarded city ascona losone second best film concorso internazionale international competition leopard best direction prize awarded city region locarno best directed film concorso internazionale international competition leopard best performance since prize awarded two best performance concorso internazionale international competition swatch first feature award prize awarded jury international critic first work presented section concorso internazionale concorso cineasti del presente fuori concorso moving ahead ex sign life piazza grande former award include leopard best actress leopard best actor concorso cineasti del presente filmmaker present – award pardo doro cineasti del presente golden leopard filmmaker present prize awarded best film competition dedicated first second feature ciné special jury prize – cineasti del presente french television channel ciné club offer broadcast right winning film guarantee broadcast channel pardo per il miglior regista emergente leopard best new director prize best new director pardo per la migliore opera prima leopard best first feature prize awarded best first work screened competition concorso internazionale concorso cineasti del presente pardi di domani leopard tomorrow – award pardino doro best international short film – srg ssr prize prize awarded best short film international short film competition pardi di domani pardino doro best swiss short film – swiss life prize prize awarded best short film national short film competition pardi di domani pardino dargento ssr srg international competition prize awarded film international competition pardi di domani pardino dargento swiss life national competition prize awarded film national competition pardi di domani locarno short film nominee european film award – pianifica prize prize offered studio pianifica go short film made european director presented one two competition award includes automatic nomination short film category european film award prize best swiss newcomer prize provides equipment offered cinegrell visuals sa freestudios sa taurus studio e avantpremière safilm demnächst ag premio medien patent verwaltung ag winning film subtitled three central european language subtitling inserted film video dvd format green pardo wwf collaboration wwf green pardo wwf prize aim find film best reflects environmental theme festival competition section award constitutes green statue sfr director artistic director – riccardo bolla – vinicio beretta sandro bianconi – sandro bianconi freddy buache commission direction composed seven member ticino – moritz de hadeln – jeanpierre brossard – david streiff – marco müller – irene bignardi – frédéric maire – olivier père – carlo chatrian – lili hinstin nadia dresti ad interim – giona nazzaro president – camillo beretta – enrico franzioni – fernando gaja – luciano giudici – raimondo rezzonico – marco solari – maja hoffmann chief operating officer – marco cacciamognaga – mario timbal – raphaël brunschwig managing director since list film festival list film festival europe list film award festival del film locarno official site english italian festival del film locarno internet movie database