More than 1000 accredited journalists from over 30 countries around the world cover the Festival del film Locarno each year. The Press Office is located on the first floor of the Palazzo Sopacenerina. We remain at your disposal for any further information. While waiting to welcome you to Locarno. We send you our best regards.

Giulia Fazioli, Head of Press Office
Stefanie Kuchler, Coordinator
press@pardo.ch
+41.91.756.21.21

Over the eleven days of the Festival, our press officers as well as the team of the Press Office will be at your disposal offering you the following services:

  - Interview Coordination
  - Stills and Press Kits
  - Electronic Mailboxes
  - TV Service
  - Press Screenings
  - Press Conferences
  - Press Review
  - Video Library
  - Press Room
  - Wi-Fi

Interviews with jurors, special guests, and with the President and Director of the Festival are planned and coordinated by the press officers. They can be contacted through the Festival’s Press Office:

 - Lucius Barre, English-language press and all other territories
 - Frauke Greiner, German and Austrian press
 - Stefanie Kuchler, Italian-language Swiss press
 - Chloé Lorenzi, French press
 - Ursula Pfander, French- and German-language Swiss press
 - Patrizia Wachter, Italian press

For interviews with directors and casts of films in the official selection, please refer to the press agents list.

Press and photographic material can be downloaded from this website by logging on to the Press Area. Access can be requested from  press@pardo.ch

Stills and Press Kits
All film stills and press kits can be downloaded from this website in the Press Area.


Festival Photo Service
The Festival presents a daily selection of photos available to journalists on this website. High-resolution pictures can be downloaded by logging on to the Press Area.

The Press Office will send, on a daily basis, all the material on the films and official information in electronic format, to your email adress. You may, on request, consult or take hard copies, where available, of information on films in the official selection, from the Press Office, located on the first floor of the Palazzo Sopracenerina.

Please remember that you can obtain a Press Room Card (CHF 20.-), which gives access to a press room with work-stations, internet, printers, phones, headphones for video conferences and faxes.

Clips of films in the official selection will be available to television networks as downloads. Access can be requested from press@pardo.ch

The Festival offers press screenings for films in the sections Concorso internazionale, Concorso Cineasti del presente and Piazza Grande.
A simultaneous translation service in French or English and in Italian, depending on the language of the subtitles, will be available during press screenings.
The program of press screenings is available on this website in the Press Area.

WARNING: EMBARGO!

Since the general audience will only be able to see these films later on, we remind journalists that they are kindly requested to respect the embargo and not publish reviews of the films before their first official screening.

A daily international press review will be posted at the Palazzo Sopracenerina.
A selection of the online press review is available on this site here

The majority of titles in the official selection can be viewed at the Digital Library, situated on the right of the entrance to the theater L'altra Sala.
Access is reserved for press and professionals. Reservation required.

Journalists who have purchased a Press Room Card (available at the Accreditation desk for CHF 20.-) will be able to use the Press Room, situated on the 2nd floor of Palazzo Marcacci. Computers with internet access, printers, fax machines, telephones, headphones for video conferences and workstations with wireless or cable internet facilities are at disposal.

Opening hours:
August 2-13: 10 am - 7.30 pm
August 14: 10 am - 1 pm

Wireless Internet will be available inside the Palazzo Sopracenerina and the Forum / Spazio cinema Journalists will receive Wi-Fi access with their accreditation.