Locarno Film Festival

78th Edition

Locarno Film Festival

where:Locarno
when:August 6th - 16th, 2025
address:Via Franchino Rusca 1
6600 Locarno
Svizzera
tel:+41 91 7562121
fax:+41 91 7562149
email:info@locarnofestival.ch
website:www.locarnofestival.ch
deadline:April 24th, 2025
entry form:Online Submission

For eight decades, the Locarno Film Festival has been at the forefront of the international festival circuit, premiering films by both established auteurs and rapidly rising talents. Nestled among the Swiss Alps and facing out onto the majestic Lake Maggiore, the city of Locarno is transformed for eleven days each August into the world capital of auteur cinema. Films can be enjoyed in the calm and concentration of a theater or out in the open air under the stars on the Piazza Grande, the spectacular outdoor cinema that accommodates an audience of up to 8,000 public spectators a night, considered one of the largest such spaces in the world.

2025
  • Bobò by Pippo Delbono: Fuori Concorso

  • The dog is my dog by Salvatore Mereu: Pardi di Domani - Corti d’Autore

  • Don’t let the sun by Jacqueline Zünd: Cineasti del Presente - Pardo for Best Performance (Levan Gelbakhiani)

  • Forever with you by Fabrizio Cattani: Locarno Kids

  • God will not help by Hana Jusic: Concorso internazionale - Pardo for Best Performance (Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselcic)

  • Heads or Tails? by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis: Piazza Grande

  • Judas' Gospel by Giulio Base: Fuori Concorso

  • Mosquitoes by Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani: Concorso internazionale

  • Nella colonia penale by Gaetano Crivaro, Silvia Perra, Ferruccio Goia, Alberto Diana: Semaine de la Critique

  • Randaghi by Enrico Motti, Emanuele Motti: Pardi di Domani - Concorso Internazionale

  • She by Parsifal Reparato: Semaine de la Critique

  • Sorella di clausura by Ivana Mladenovic: Concorso internazionale

  • Sweetheart by Margherita Spampinato: Cineasti del Presente - Special Jury Prize CINÉ+, Pardo for Best Performance (Aurora Quattrocchi)

2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
  • L'amatore by Maria Mauti: Fuori Concorso

  • The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani: Cineasti del presente - Ciné+ Special Jury Prize

  • Feast by Franco Piavoli: Fuori Concorso

  • The Nature of Things by Laura Viezzoli: Fuori Concorso

  • The Nest by Klaudia Reynicke: Cineasti del presente

  • Valparaiso by Carlo Sironi: Leopards of Tomorrow - International Competition - Prize Film und Video Untertitelung

  • Where Is Rocky II? by Pierre Bismuth: Fuori concorso: Art Basel

2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
  • Detour De Seta by Salvo Cuccia: Cineasti del presente

  • Frammenti di ‘900 by Citto Maselli: Filmmakers of the Present

  • Private by Saverio Costanzo: Golden Leopard for Best Film, Leopard for the Best Actor (Mohammad Bakri)

  • Promised land by Michael Beltrami: In Competition

2003
2002
2001
2000