Jane Campion will be heading to Switzerland this summer to receive an honorary award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running from August 7 to 17.
The director will be presented with the festival’s Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for outstanding achievement in cinema in a ceremony at its landmark Piazza Grande open-air venue on August 16.
As part of the honorary celebrations, two Campion features will be screened at the festival: An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Piano (1993).
The latter is presented in a new 4K restoration that will make its debut on the Piazza Grande. Campion will also host an onstage Q&A at the Forum @ Spazio Cinema on August 17. “With her directorial debut, Sweetie (1989), Jane Campion asserted herself from the start as a distinctive and unmistakable voice,” Giona A.
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