Festival will give Hosoda’s Cannes title ‘ Belle’ a Piazza Grande screening.
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda with its new Locarno Kids Award, aimed at filmmakers with a track record of drawing young spectators to the cinema, at its 74th edition (August 4-14).
To mark the event the festival will screen the filmmaker’s latest feature Belle on the Piazza Grande on August 9. The feature animation revolves around a shy high-school student who becomes a sensation in a popular virtual-reality world.
The film arrives fresh from Cannes where it premiered in the Cannes Premiere section.
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda with its new Locarno Kids Award, aimed at filmmakers with a track record of drawing young spectators to the cinema, at its 74th edition (August 4-14).
To mark the event the festival will screen the filmmaker’s latest feature Belle on the Piazza Grande on August 9. The feature animation revolves around a shy high-school student who becomes a sensation in a popular virtual-reality world.
The film arrives fresh from Cannes where it premiered in the Cannes Premiere section.
- 7/26/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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