Locarno Film Festival will no longer present gender-based acting awards, but instead refer to new, gender-neutral performance categories.
Locarno Film Festival
Thousands of film fans and industry professionals meet at the Locarno Film Festival every summer to share their thirst for new discoveries and a passion for cinema in all its diversity.
In Locarno they find a quality program, rich, eclectic, surprising, and where emerging talent rubs shoulders with prestigious guests.
Locarno Film Festival started in 1946 and takes place in Locarno, Switzerland
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Last Dance and Annie Colère Win Final Awards at 75th Locarno Film Festival
Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey The 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival ended over the weekend, and the audience selected Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey for the Prix du Public (audience award), while the seventies drama Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir clinched the Variety Piazza Grande Award.
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75th Locarno Film Festival Award Winners. Julia Murat’s Rule 34 Wins Pardo d’oro Prize
Rule 34 (Regra 34) by Julia Murat The controversial Brazilian film Rule 34 (Regra 34) by Julia Murat was awarded the Pardo d’oro at the 75th Locarno Film Festival. In the sexual film, Simone is a young law student who finds a passion for defending women in abuse cases, yet her own sexual interests lead her to a world of violence and eroticism.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones to Receive Leopard Club Award at Locarno Film Festival
Daisy Edgar-Jones in Where the Crawdads Sing Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones will receive the Leopard Club Award at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3 – 13, 2022), along with a screening of Where the Crawdads Sing by Olivia Newman.
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Bullet Train’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson to be Honored at Locarno Film Festival
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Bullet Train (screenshot via Youtube) British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016), will receive the Excellence Award Davide Campari at Locarno Film Festival, and present the Festival’s opening film Bullet Train, by David Leitch.
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75th Locarno Film Festival Announces Lineup
Brad Pitt and Brian Tyree Henry in Bullet Train. © Sony Pictures Releasing Locarno Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary from August 3 through 13, and unveiled the lineup of films, which, in keeping with the event’s long history, will boldly showcase cinema in all its forms, old and new.
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Matt Dillon to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Locarno Film Festival
Matt Dillon ©Photo by Tom Munro Actor Matt Dillon will be honored at Locarno Film Festival with the Lifetime Achievement Award, accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989) and City of Ghosts Matt Dillon, 2002).
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Jason Blum to Receive Best Independent Producer Award at Locarno Film Festival
Jason Blum © Gage Skidmore The Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico for Best Independent Producer on the international scene will be awarded to Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, a pivotal figure behind hits such as Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) and BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018).
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Director Costa-Gavras to Receive Achievement Award at Locarno Film Festival
Costa Gavras © KG Production Greek-French director Costa-Gavras will be honored with the Pardo alla carriera Ascona-Locarno achievement award at the 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival taking place August 3-13 2022.
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Michele Vannucci’s DELTA to World Premiere at Locarno Film Festival
Delta directed by Michele Vannucci ©Paolo Ciriello Delta, the new film from Italian director Michele Vannucci, starring Alessandro Borghi and Luigi Lo Cascio, will be presented at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13, 2022) as an advance world premiere in Piazza Grande.
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Filmmaker Laurie Anderson to Receive Vision Award Ticinomoda at Locarno Film Festival
Laurie Anderson © Ebru Yildiz The Locarno Film Festival will honor U.S. composer, visual artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, a prize dedicated to creatives whose work has extended the horizons of the filmic image.
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Kelly Reichardt to Receive Pardo d’onore Manor Award at Locarno Film Festival
Kelly Reichardt | © Courtesy of David Godlis Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, described as “one of the most original and independent voices in contemporary American filmmaking” will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival on Friday August 12 in Piazza Grande. On Saturday August 13, she will be at the center of a panel conversation with the audience, who will also have a chance to see two films from her career during Locarno75: Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Night Moves (2013).