About 59th Locarno Film Festival
The 59th Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 August 2006 in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival featured 172 films in total, with twenty one films in competition from seventeen different countries. The opening film was the European premiere of Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann. The closing film was the European premiere of Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The festival also held a retrospective of the work of Finnish director Aki Kaursimaki.
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