Experience an authentic sample of world cinema Review of the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival

Abstract

No other festival on the globe can boast of having an open-air movie screen for eight thousand spectators. It is, in fact, the largest space on the planet with those specific conditions. That site, called Piazza Grande, is the banner of the film event that takes place every August in the Swiss town of Locarno, on the shores of Lake Maggiore. The importance and popularity of that square for public screenings is such that it is even represented on the back of the national twenty Swiss franc bill. But beyond this particular characteristic, a quality that fully defines this cinematographic meeting is the opportunity to perceive a legitimate exposure to the state of current audiovisual art coming from each and every one of the continents, becoming an approach to the general panorama of the global film production.