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Film festival to be held today at PNCA

By APP
January 23, 2018

Islamabad: A lecture on film and Locarno Film Festival would be held at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) today (Tuesday).

Head of Locarno Film Festival Sophie Bourdon will be the chief guest on the occasion. The lecture was being arranged by PNCA in collaboration with Embassy of Switzerland. The event would be attended by film students, filmmakers and film enthusiasts.

The Locarno Festival (formerly called the festival del film Locarno and commonly referred to as the Locarno Film Festival) is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, it is one of the longest-running film festivals and is also known for being a prestigious platform for art house films.

The festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programmes. The Piazza Grande section is held in one of the world’s largest open-air screening venues, seating 8,000 spectators.