108. Piazza Grande, Locarno (TI)

The Locarno Festival is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, it is one of the longest-running film festivals and is also known for being a prestigious platform for art house films. The festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. One of its peculiarities is the use of the Piazza Grande in Locarno as a projection room, one of the largest in the world with one of the largest cinema screens in Europe (26 meters long and 14 in height), which allows viewing at a audience of 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the Festival is the Golden Leopard to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public UBS, the public choice award.

Inauguration: 5th of April 2017 – on the occasion of the 70th year of the Festival