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Locarno International Film Festival


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Locarno IFF is a substantial FIAPF accredited festival with a centrepiece open air screening area in the Piazza Grand accommodating 8,000 people.

 

In 2022 the festival programmed more than 200 films across 362 public screenings from 55 countries. It received more than 4,000 film submissions. Its program includes industry events as a well as public screenings. In 2022 it had 1.266 onsite industry guests from 94 countries.

 

Its international prize is the Golden Leopard. The festival has 12 sections, 3 competitions and 25 awards.


Awards

2012 - Won - Lore - Prix du Public (Audience Award)

2002 - Won - Lost - Silver Leopard

2002 - Won - Delivery Day - Golden Leopard

2002 - Won - Vitalogy - Film and Video Prize for Subtitles

1996 - Won - Floating Life - Silver Leopard Award - International des Cine Clubs Prize

1996 - Won - Floating Life - Youth Jury Prize, Best Film for Human and Spiritual Vision - Federation

1992 - Won - Horse With Stripes, A - Le Prix SSR

Screenings

2025 - Together

2024 - Piano, The

2023 - Shayda

2022 - Petrol

2017 - Silica

2016 - Oddball

2014 - Shine

2013 - Fun City

2012 - Lore

2012 - Suspended

2011 - At The Formal

2010 - Morning Star

2009 - Mandarin Peel

2008 - Directions

2008 - Eternity Man, The

2007 - Kin

2004 - We Have Decided Not To Die

2003 - Roy Höllsdotter Live

2002 - Drover's Wife, The

2002 - Caravan Park

2002 - Passionless Moments

2002 - Peel

2002 - Rabbit On The Moon

2002 - Getting Wet

2002 - Violence In The Cinema Part 1

2002 - Space Between the Door and the Floor, The

2002 - One Hundred A Day

2002 - Evictions

2002 - Road To Alice

2002 - Groping

2002 - Odd Jobs

2002 - It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain

2002 - Obituary, The

2002 - Two Bob Mermaid

2002 - Bits and Pieces

2002 - My Second Car

2002 - Rust Bucket

2002 - My First Slumber Party

2002 - Colonel, The

2002 - Bulls

2002 - Three to Go

2002 - Tears

2002 - Tulip

2002 - Oops!

2002 - Lost

2002 - Confessions of a Headhunter

2002 - Joy

2002 - Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow, A

2002 - Big House, The

2002 - In Search of Mike

2002 - Delivery Day

2002 - Road

2002 - Rubber Gloves

2002 - Bowl Me Over

2002 - Inja

2002 - Harvey

2002 - Other Son, The

2002 - Vitalogy

2002 - Lamb

2002 - Dancing in the Dust

2002 - Into the Night

2002 - Satdee Night

2002 - Bathers, The

2002 - Kitchen Sink

2002 - Bowl Me Over

2001 - Moulin Rouge

1996 - Floating Life

1996 - Floating Life

1995 - Bathing Boxes

1994 - Muriel's Wedding

1992 - Horse With Stripes, A

1992 - Cat's Cradle

1992 - Strictly Ballroom

1991 - Sparks

1991 - Swimming

1987 - With Love to the Person Next to Me

1987 - In Between

1986 - Street to Die, A

1986 - Half Life

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