About 64th Locarno Film Festival
The 64th Locarno Film Festival was held from 3 to 13 August 2011 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 14 world premieres for films in competition. The opening film of the festival was J.J. Abrams' Super 8. Another American film, Cowboys & Aliens, also screened on the Piazza Grande, the 8,000-seat open-air theater. It was presented at the festival by the film's stars Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde and director Jon Favreau. Spike Jonze also screened his hand-made stop-motion short To Die by Your Side.
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