About 48th Locarno Film Festival
The 48th Locarno Film Festival was held from 3 to 13 August 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film was the newly restored print of Senso directed by Luchino Visconti. The festival featured the first complete retrospective of Abbas Kirostami's entire filmography and had multiple Iranian film sections. The Leopard of Honor was awarded to Jean-Luc Goddard, who accepted and immediately donated the $17,000 reward to Amnesty International. Goddard was also on hand to present the first four chapters of his Histoire(s) du cinéma project, which attracted large spillover crowds. In competition,.
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