Gravity and Roma director Alfonso Cuarón is to receive the 2024 Locarno Film Festival‘s Lifetime Achievement Award. Five-time Oscar winner Cuarón willreceive the award on Sunday, August 11 in Piazza Grande.
That same day, the audience will have an opportunity to meet the Mexican filmmaker in a panel conversation at Forum @Spazio Cinema.
The Locarno tribute will be accompanied by the screening of Alain Tanner’s Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000 (Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, 1976), which was personally selected by Cuarón.
Before the screening of Tanner’s film, Cuarón will discuss its significance both for his own work and film history in general.
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