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Locarno Festival

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The Locarno Festival (formerly called the Festival del film Locarno and commonly referred to as the Locarno Film Festival) is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. [1]

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Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer.

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Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda (born 30 May 1928) is a Belgian-born French film director.

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Alain Delon

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and businessman.

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Alain Tanner

Alain Tanner (born 6 December 1929) is a Swiss film director.

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Alexander Sokurov

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Соку́ров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker.

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Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai (עמוס גיתאי; born October 1950) is an Israeli filmmaker, mainly known for making documentaries and feature films, surrounding the Middle East and Jewish-Arab conflict.

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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.

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Andy García

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), professionally known as Andy García, is a Cuban American actor and director.

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Ang Lee

Ang Lee OBS (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter.

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Armin Mueller-Stahl

Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a German film actor, painter and author.

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Ascona

Ascona Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan, (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer.

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Béla Tarr

Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian film director.

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Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British-German family romantic comedy sports film produced, written and directed by Gurinder Chadha, and starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi.

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Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci (born 16 March 1941) is an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), The Sheltering Sky, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers.

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Best Actor Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

The Leopard for Best Actor (Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile) is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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Best Actress Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

The Leopard for Best Actress (Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile) is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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Best Direction Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

The Best Direction Award is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Carlo Chatrian

Carlo Chatrian is an Italian journalist, author and is the artistic director of the Festival del film Locarno.

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Carmen Maura

Carmen García Maura OAXS (born 15 September 1945) is a Spanish actress.

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Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat (French; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.

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Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling, (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian.

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Chen Kaige

Chen Kaige (born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema.

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Chiara Mastroianni

Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is a French-Italian actress and singer. She is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Claire Denis

Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and writer.

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Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.

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Double Indemnity (film)

Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.

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Douglas Trumbull

Douglas Huntley Trumbull (born April 8, 1942) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor.

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Edward Yang

Edward Yang (November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker.

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Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin (Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress.

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Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal (born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican film actor, director, model and producer.

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Garrett Brown

Garrett Brown (born April 6, 1942) is an American inventor, best known as the inventor of the Steadicam.

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Giacomo Gentilomo

Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and painter.

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Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice-over artist.

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Glauber Rocha

Glauber de Andrade Rocha (14 March 1939 – 22 August 1981), better known as Glauber Rocha, was a Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter.

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Golden Leopard

The Golden Leopard is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946.

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Gregg Araki

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker involved heavily with New Queer Cinema.

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Henry King (director)

Henry King (January 24, 1886June 29, 1982) was an American film director.

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Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (born 16 March 1953) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 120 films since her debut in 1971.

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Jacqueline Bisset

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset (born 13 September 1944) is an English actress.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke (born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter.

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer.

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John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, producer and fashion designer.

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Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, artist and dancer.

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Kim Ki-duk

Kim Ki-duk (born December 20, 1960) is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works.

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Leopard of Honour

The Leopard of Honour is a life's work achievement award at the Locarno International Film Festival, the international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

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List of film awards

This is a list of groups, organizations, and festivals that recognize achievements in cinema, usually by awarding various prizes.

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List of film festivals

This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.

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List of film festivals in Europe

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about film festivals in Europe.

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Locarno

Locarno (Ticinese: Locarn; formerly in Luggárus) is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno (and its capital), located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps.

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Locarno Festival

The Locarno Festival (formerly called the Festival del film Locarno and commonly referred to as the Locarno Film Festival) is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland.

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Lore (film)

Lore is a 2012 German-British-Australian historical drama, based on Rachel Seiffert's much awarded novel The Dark Room, written by Robin Mukherjee and the film's director, Cate Shortland.

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Losone

Losone is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE, GCIH (11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto.

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Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio (born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Margaret Ménégoz

Margaret Ménégoz (born Margit Katarina Baranyai, 21 April 1941) is a German-French film producer.

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Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan (מנחם גולן.; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was a Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director.

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Mia Farrow

María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.

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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino (February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author.

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Michel Piccoli

Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor and filmmaker of Ticino descent.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.

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Mike Medavoy

Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978) and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor who, until 1968, lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia.

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Minusio

Minusio is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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Moët & Chandon

Moët & Chandon, or Moët, is a French fine winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE.

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Monsieur Lazhar

Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau and starring Mohamed Saïd Fellag, Sophie Nélisse and Danielle Proulx.

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Moritz de Hadeln

Moritz de Hadeln (born 21 December 1940 in Exeter, Devon, England) is a Swiss documentary film director and photographer, who became a Film Festival director.

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Nansun Shi

Nansun Shi (born Shi Nan-Sun on 8 August 1951) is a Hong Kong film producer, presenter and a former Senior Advisor for Media Asia Group.

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Oleg Menshikov

Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer.

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Olivier Père

Born in 1971 in Marseilles, a French national, Olivier Père graduated with a degree in Humanities from the University of Sorbonne (Paris IV).

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Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director.

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Prix du public

The Prix du Public UBS is a prize assigned by the audience attending the Film Festival Locarno in Piazza Grande.

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Raúl Ruiz (director)

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (Raoul Ruiz; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France.

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.

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Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Rome, Open City

Open City or Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) is a 1945 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini.

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Special Jury Prize (Locarno International Film Festival)

The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Steadicam

Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation.

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Stefania Sandrelli

Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Province of Lucca) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from the 1960s.

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police.

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The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 biographical drama film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Franz Werfel.

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The Syrian Bride

The Syrian Bride (הכלה הסורית) is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis.

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Toni Servillo

Marco Antonio "Toni" Servillo (born 25 January 1959) is an Italian actor and theatre director.

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UBS

UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Victoria Abril

Victoria Mérida Rojas (born 4 July 1959) better known as Victoria Abril is a Spanish film actress and singer.

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Vision Award Nescens

The Vision Award - Nescens both highlights and pays tribute to someone whose creative work behind the scenes, as well as in their own right, has contributed to opening up new perspectives in film.

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Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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Willem Dafoe

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor with Italian citizenship.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locarno_Festival

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