Highlights: Retrospective 2010

The retrospective of the 63rd Festival will be dedicated to the German-American director Ernst Lubitsch.
Among the Quartz winners 2010 (Swiss Film Prize) are four films featured at the 62nd Locarno Festival. The Locarno Film Festival expresses solidarity with the filmmaker Jafar Panahi, following his arrest in Teheran. Two films of the 2009 selection were recently released: LA REINE DES POMMES (France) and SHE, A CHINESE (UK). At the 63rd Locarno Festival a Swisscom Leopard of Honour will be awarded to the Swiss director Alain Tanner. The poster for the 63rd edition has been unveiled on Thursday, January 28th in Solothurn. In an interview new artistic director Olivier Père outlines his vision of the Festival and ambitions for the future at Locarno. The Festival's new selection committee comprises Philip Cheah, Jean-François Deveau, Mark Peranson, Roberto Turigliatto and Agnès Wildenstein. The retrospective of the 63rd Festival will be dedicated to the German-American director Ernst Lubitsch.

The retrospective of the 63rd Festival will be dedicated to the German-American director Ernst Lubitsch.