Through its 69-year-long history the Locarno International Film Festival (3-13 August) has conquered a unique place among the world’s major film festivals. Every year the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno becomes the highlight of arthouse films: art film lovers and professionals all meet there to share their passion for the cinema, in all its expressions.
For the first time this year the Italian Cultural Institute in Zurich cooperated with the fashionable and trend-setting Festival which was the first to recognize the ingeniousness of young directors from every corner of the world. The president of this year’s jury is film director Dario Argento. Among the participants to the festival there is also Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, with the film “Une jeune fille de 90 ans” screened in the non-competing section. On 5 August in Piazza Grande, actress Stefania Sandrelli will be conferred the Leopard Club Award 2016, in recognition of a great personality of the Italian cinema who, with her acting work, succeed to etch an indelible mark on the collective imagination. The Award will be enriched by the screening of “The Conformist” (“Il conformista”, 1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci and a chat between the actress and the audience of the Festival.
