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Public Appearances ~ Sophia Myles at Locarno Film Festival
Moonlight TV Show — ... Annual Locarno Film Festival Outlander movie screening Friday, August 15th, 2008 9:30 pm Piazza Grande Locarno, Switzerland Europe http://www.filmfestivallocarno.ch/jahia/Jahia/home/site/pardosite/lang/en/pid/449 Photo ~ Freya ( Sophia Myles ) and Kainan ( Jim ...

61st Locarno Film Festival Awards
The Screening Log — Enrique Rivero's Mexican drama "Parque vía" won top honors Saturday at the 61st edition of the Locarno Film Festival. Winner of the festival's Golden Leopard, the film centers on a elderly recluse (Nolberto Coria) who struggles to reconnect with the outside world after living in an empty house for several years.   The Special Jury Prize went to "33 sceny z zycia" ("33 Scenes from Life"), Malgoska Szumowska's drama about a young woman whose life slowly starts to fall apart after she learns her mother has cancer. ...

Nick Bradshaw on outdoor screenings at the Cambridge Film festival
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — Outdoors seems to have become the new fourth wall for film festivals trying to make a splash in a crowded marketplace. This summer I've watched films al fresco in the company of thousands in the town squares of Bologna and Locarno – whose festivals make these public screenings their nightly centrepieces. Edinburgh gathered a clutch of classic crowd-pleasers for its weekend ...

Switzerland Sees Spots At The Opening Night Of The Locarno Film Festival
Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — ... Actors, journalists, and cinephiles gathered in Locarno, Switzerland yesterday as the Locarno International Film Festival celebrated the opening night of their 2009 season. The 10-day festival is celebrating its 62nd year with screenings, lectures, and more leopard print than any American film festival would dare to show. a ...

The Auteurs Daily: Locarno and Other Fests and Events
The Auteurs Notebook — The 62nd Locarno International Film Festival has wrapped tonight with its awards ceremony and the world premiere of Byambasuren Davaa's The Two Horses of Genghis Khan. But the news of the evening would be that two films have picked up two awards - Alexei Mizgirev's Buben, Baraban (Special Jury Prize and Best Director) and Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal (Best First Feature and Best Actress for Lotte Verbeek) - and of course, the Golden Leopard. Dan ...

LOCARNO 2009: To Live and Die in Switzerland
GreenCine Daily — ... The center of the Locarno Film Festival (and of the town) is the splendid Piazza Grande, where crowds gather every night to watch "popular" films on the giant screen. These need not detain us long with the exception of the closing film, The Two Horses of Genghis Khan (Chingisiyn Hoyor Zagal), which is not a very low-budget epic as the title suggests, but a semi-documentary by ...