The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs.

The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award.

The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie "O sole mio" by Giacomo Gentilomo. The first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was "Rome, Open City" directed by Roberto Rossellini, "And Then There Were None" directed by René Clair (1945), "Double Indemnity" by Billy Wilder (1944) and "The Song of Bernadette" by Henry King (1943).

The 74th Locarno Film Festival took place from 4 to 14 August 2021. Over 75,000 people attended.

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