75 Locarno Film Festival 03.08. - 13.08.2022
Screenings, guests, memorable encounters in a unique setting between the lake and the Swiss mountains... For 75 years, the Locarno Film Festival has illuminated Locarno's summers with cinema, bringing the most daring productions and talents destined to leave their mark on the Piazza Grande and its screening venues. To celebrate its anniversary in 2022, the Festival has many surprises in store.
The first is that, after two editions marked by the pandemic, this year, the event will return to being in all respects what it has always been: an appointment open to all types of audiences, to which access is unrestricted, with hundreds of film premieres presented, and many opportunities to meet and rediscover the pleasure of sharing the seventh art. But there's more because the Festival is becoming a platform active all year-round. As demonstrated by the many new projects you can already discover between August 3 and 13 in Locarno on many fronts.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2011 to salute film personalities with an extraordinary career. In the past years it was presented to film legends such as Harrison Ford (2011), Alain Delon (2012), Jacqueline Bisset (2013), Harvey Keitel (2016), Dario Argento (2021) and Matt Dillon (2022).
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 to Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon embodies with supreme freedom an idea of the American artist and cinema that we deeply love. The restlessness of youth and the freedom of maturity. A performer who has built lasting, transgenerational success without ever shying away from exploring new challenges and languages. An astounding actor and director, Dillon represents the best of an idea of American cinema born in the 1970s while celebrating the courage of unconventional choices. We are honored to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Locarno Film Festival with him. (Giona A. Nazzaro)
The Festival team is enthusiastically preparing for this moment in which we will celebrate a glorious past and look to the future and how the event will be transformed in the coming years. We look forward to celebrating with us: find out how to participate in Locarno75 and enjoy the first previews of the program.
