74th Locarno Film Festival
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.
Festival official poster
Eliza Hittman, international competition jury president
John Landis winner of Leopard of Honour, the lifetime achievement award
Laetitia Casta winner of Excellence Award Davide Campari
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.
Piazza Grande screening venue
The open-air screening of the Locarno Film Festival on the Piazza Grande is featured on the Swiss twenty-franc banknote since 2017.
The screen in the Piazza Grande
Night life during the Festival, Locarno City Garden.