About us
BaseCamp is a multidisciplinary artistic residency and a co-learning platform for emerging talents who would like to engage with Locarno Film Festival meaningfully, not only with cinema but with other forms of art, humanities, science, nature, and everything in between. Over the 11 days of the festival, 200 participants will share space and time with each other and will be free to carve their own path through BaseCamp’s curated program which consists of workshops, masterclasses, artistic productions, performances, and public discussions.
In a large, vibrant festival that often creates barriers for a diverse range of people to engage deeply with one other, we provide a public space where gathering and free learning can take place. To keep nurturing this atmosphere, we look towards the philosophy of gardening: the cultivation of spontaneous growth and an attunement to natural rhythms, rather than the imposition of rigid and extractive geometries. As we commune under the warmth of sun, trailing towards green spaces and bodies of water scattered around Locarno, we realize that this conversation must also include the environment, politics, and other nonhuman forces that will always be greater than us. As a tiny garden inside of a film festival, we wish to extend the dialogue between cinema and the rest of the world.



“When my friend sent me this opportunity—without sounding cheesy—I felt like I was meant to be in that space, being stimulated by other creatives, especially given the transitional period I'm in right now."
“Did you ever see 8,000 people crying at once because of a movie?
Every day, when we asked ourselves how life was, we had one answer:
Life is good.”
"No words can describe how groundbreaking it was for this stage of my career - I am beyond grateful to have been selected, and the entire team is legend forall the warmth you’ve shared with us.
I will never forget this experience, from the first day of chopping some of the most delicious tomatoes of my life.”
“The dazed 3 a.m. bus rides after dancing the nights away, watching strange comedies in the pouring rain beneath leopard-print ponchos, and drinking espressos to stimulate ethical thinking—it’s all so far removed from my usual life that it feels like something that happened to someone else. Yet I keep looking back over the Instagram highlights of the stories I posted (149 in total!), which remind me: no, we were right there, living the movie magic.”
“The program! The curation! The soft hand lending the threads for us to weave them together! Between the radio, the library, the stage, the bar, the tent, and this middle tree that witnessed so much, there
are few places that can claim to be a beating heart as much as BaseCamp.
And it was sexy too! (in the sense that you’d never know what would happen, but chance would always find a way to stroke you)."
BaseCamp is part of
This project is possible thanks to
Creative Partner
With the support of
In partnership with
Locarno Film Festival main Partners
Institutional Partner
Destination Partner
About us
BaseCamp is a multidisciplinary artistic residency and a co-learning platform for emerging talents who would like to engage with Locarno Film Festival meaningfully, not only with cinema but with other forms of art, humanities, science, nature, and everything in between. Over the 11 days of the festival, 200 participants will share space and time with each other and will be free to carve their own path through BaseCamp’s curated program which consists of workshops, masterclasses, artistic productions, performances, and public discussions.
In a large, vibrant festival that often creates barriers for a diverse range of people to engage deeply with one other, we provide a public space where gathering and free learning can take place. To keep nurturing this atmosphere, we look towards the philosophy of gardening: the cultivation of spontaneous growth and an attunement to natural rhythms, rather than the imposition of rigid and extractive geometries. As we commune under the warmth of sun, trailing towards green spaces and bodies of water scattered around Locarno, we realize that this conversation must also include the environment, politics, and other nonhuman forces that will always be greater than us. As a tiny garden inside of a film festival, we wish to extend the dialogue between cinema and the rest of the world.


“The dazed 3 a.m. bus rides after dancing the nights away, watching strange comedies in the pouring rain beneath leopard-print ponchos, and drinking espressos to stimulate ethical thinking—it’s all so far removed from my usual life that it feels like something that happened to someone else. Yet I keep looking back over the Instagram highlights of the stories I posted (149 in total!), which remind me: no, we were right there, living the movie magic.”
“The program! The curation! The soft hand lending the threads for us to weave them together! Between the radio, the library, the stage, the bar, the tent, and this middle tree that witnessed so much, there
are few places that can claim to be a beating heart as much as BaseCamp.
And it was sexy too! (in the sense that you’d never know what would happen, but chance would always find a way to stroke you)."
"No words can describe how groundbreaking it was for this stage of my career - I am beyond grateful to have been selected, and the entire team is legend forall the warmth you’ve shared with us.
I will never forget this experience, from the first day of chopping some of the most delicious tomatoes of my life.”
“Did you ever see 8,000 people crying at once because of a movie?
Every day, when we asked ourselves how life was, we had one answer:
Life is good.”
“When my friend sent me this opportunity—without sounding cheesy—I felt like I was meant to be in that space, being stimulated by other creatives, especially given the transitional period I'm in right now."
BaseCamp is part of
This project is possible thanks to
Creative Partner
With the support of
In partnership with
Locarno Film Festival main Partners
Institutional Partner
Destination Partner