Highlights: 2009 Winners

The 2009 awards were announced on August 15 at the Piazza Grande, during the closing night of the 62nd Festival.
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 63rd Film Festival Locarno will take place from August 4 to 14, 2010. The 2009 awards were announced on August 15 at the Piazza Grande, during the closing night of the 62nd Festival.

The 2009 awards were announced on August 15 at the Piazza Grande, during the closing night of the 62nd Festival.