Polish-Italian actress Kasia Smutniak, described by artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro as “a skilled, very personal actress” will receive the Leopard Club Award at the 74th Locarno Film Festival.
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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Actress Kasia Smutniak Honored with Locarno Film Festival’s Leopard Club Award
Kasia Smutniak. © Andrea Gandini
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Locarno Film Festival Completes Lineup with Premieres of ‘She Will’ and ‘100 Minutes’
She Will directed by Charlotte Colbert © Property of Popcorn Group The 2021 Locarno Film Festival will premiere the psychological thriller She Will, a powerful debut by Franco-British director Charlotte Colbert, along with the World Premiere of Sto minut iz zhizni Ivana Denisovicha (100 Minutes) by Russian director Gleb Panfilov, who already won a Golden Leopard in 1969.
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Locarno Film Festival 2021 Announces Complete Lineup with Jennifer Hudson, Josh Hartnett, Ryan Reynolds and More
Jennifer Hudson in RESPECT by Liesl Tommy Locarno Film Festival announced the lineup for the 74th edition of the festival set to run August 4 through 14, 2021. The festival opens with Beckett directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and starring John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps, along with Panos Koronis.
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Netflix Thriller BECKETT starring John David Washington to Open Locarno Film Festival
BECKETT (2021) John David Washington as Beckett. Cr: Yannis Drakoulidis/NETFLIX Beckett, the new film by Italian director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander will open the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Piazza Grande on August 4. Following its premiere at the Festival, the film will be available on Netflix from August 13.
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John Landis to be Honored at Locarno Film Festival with Pardo d’onore Manor award
John Landis and wife, Deborah Nadoolman Landis at the Downsizing premiere and Opening Ceremony, 74th Venice Film Festival (dp) Director, screenwriter, and actor John Landis will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival. Landis will also join a panel discussion with the audience, while Locarno74 will feature screenings of three landmark titles from his career: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Trading Places (1983) and Innocent Blood (1992).
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Actress Laetitia Casta to Receive Locarno Film Festival’s Excellence Award Davide Campari
Laetitia Casta (dp) French actress Laetitia Casta will receive the 2021 Excellence Award Davide Campari at the Locarno Film Festival The actress has selected two titles from her filmography to be screened during the Festival: Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, 2010) by Joann Sfar and L’homme fidèle (A Faithful Man, 2018) by Louis Garrel.
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Locarno Film Festival Dedicates Retrospective to Director Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada The Retrospective of the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival ( August 4-14, 2021) curated by Roberto Turigliatto will be dedicated to director Alberto Lattuada, an often under-rated filmmaker whose productive and fascinating career traversed more than four decades of Italian cinema, from his 1943 debut Giacomo l’idealista (Giacomo the Idealist) to Una spina nel cuore (A Thorn in the Heart) in 1986. In the years immediately after the Second World War, the “formalist” Lattuada successfully joined the current of Neo-Realist filmmaking, but without renouncing the refined and cultivated manner of his original background, blending that style with a taste for genre and popular storytelling.
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Female Directed Films – Lucrecia Marte’s CHOCOBAR and Marí Alessandrini’s ZAHORI Win Top Prizes at Locarno 2020
Lucrecia Martel wins Pardo 2020 for best international film for CHOCOBAR; and Marí Alessandrini wins Pardo 2020 for best Swiss film fir ZAHORI Two female filmmakers won the top Pardi 2020 awards at the special edition of Locarno 2020, themed For the Future of Films.
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Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW will Open Locarno 2020
First Cow by Kelly Reichardt Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films will open on Wednesday August 5th with First Cow, the latest film from U.S. director and screenwriter Kelly Reichardt, who will also be one of three jurors judging the international projects in The Films After Tomorrow section.
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Locarno Film Festival Cancels 2020 Fest, Launches New Format
The Executive Board of the Locarno Film Festival today announced the cancellation of Locarno73 attributing the decision to difficulty in holding the event in its usual form, because of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and today’s decisions by federal authorities regarding major events in Switzerland.
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Locarno Film Festival 2020 Unveils Poster and Honors First Woman – Kinuyo Tanaka with Retrospective
Kinuyo Tanaka The Locarno Film Festival offered a sneak preview of the upcoming 73rd edition of the festival including the 2020 Festival poster, the Retrospective which will be dedicated for the first time to a woman, the Japanese filmmaker and actress Kinuyo Tanaka and a new collaboration starts with SWISS FILMS. The 73rd Locarno Film Festival will take place from August 5 to 15, 2020.
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Locarno Film Festival 2019 Winners – VITALINA VARELA Wins Pardo d’oro
VITALINA VARELA The 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival closed with the award ceremony, and VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa was awarded the top prize, the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard), Grand Prize of the City of Locarno. The film follows Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, who arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. For her performance Vitalina Varela was awarded the Leopard for Best Actress.