Film Festival A quarter more visitors at half-time in Locarno
A quarter more Piazza visitors compared to last year, hot nights and a rousing Indian superstar receiving a lifetime achievement award: The Locarno Film Festival can look back on a good first half of the festival.
12.08.2024, 11:18
12.08.2024, 12:55
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Up to and including Sunday evening, 25 percent more people have visited the Piazza Grande compared to the previous year. If you include the pre-festival, which has been extended by one evening, the number of visitors is 40 percent higher, as the Festival's Commercial Director Raphaël Brunschwig explained to the Keystone-SDA news agency.
The film festival also recorded a slight increase in attendance of four percent in the auditoriums. Overall, the number of visitors rose by 18.6 percent.
The beautiful summer nights probably helped: While last year the first week of the festival was characterized by unstable weather, the Locarno Film Festival was lucky with the weather this year.
