The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually 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.
Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento awards.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker.
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and television presenter.
Ilaria Occhini was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films.
Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, eroticism, and lavish visuals. Guadagnino has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Lion, alongside nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.
Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with Heavenly Body (2011). She has since directed notable films such as The Wonders (2014), winner of the Grand Prix, Happy as Lazzaro (2018), which received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, and La chimera (2023). Her short Le pupille (2022) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Edoardo Leo is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Sara Serraiocco is an Italian actress, best known for playing Baldwin in the TV series Counterpart.
Matilda De Angelis is an Italian actress and singer. Her credits include the films Italian Race and Rose Island and the television miniseries The Law According to Lidia Poët and The Undoing.
The 74th annual Locarno Festival was held from 4 August to 14 August 2021 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was Beckett by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, which had its world premiere on 4 August. The 74th edition of Locarno Film Festival hosted 14 films including 7 world premieres in Piazza Grande among which half were European productions. More than 75,000 spectators attended the festival. 50% less than the attendance rate in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ginevra Francesconi is an Italian actress and model.
Prisma is an Italian coming-of-age television series created by Alice Urciuolo and Ludovico Bessegato. The first season was released on Amazon Prime Video on 20 September 2022. The series was cancelled after two seasons in 2024.
Costanza Quatriglio is an Italian film director, documentarist and screenwriter.
Duccio Chiarini is an Italian film director, documentarist, screenwriter and producer.
Brando De Sica is an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is a member of a prominent artistic Italian family of De Sica and Verdone, a grandson of Vittorio De Sica.
Klaudia Reynicke is a Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker.
Antonietta De Lillo is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and documentarist.
