FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM

Locarno hosts a major film festival. For ten nights, Piazza Grande transforms into a gigantic outdoor cinema room. The festival is dedicated to the promotion of new talents, to the discovery of young filmmakers. The inhabitants of Locarno and more generally the Ticino will tell you that it is the fourth largest film festival in the world after Cannes, Venice and Berlin. During the period it is held, it is very difficult to stay in and around Locarno.