Argento will receive the award in Piazza Grande on the evening of Aug. 13 and also present Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Muerte No Tiene Dueño (Death Has No Master), which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes this year and which stars her. “Since making her onscreen debut as a child in Lamberto Bava’s cult sequel Demons 2 (1986) and starring in Palombella rossa (1989) by Nanni Moretti, Asia Argento, one of the most distinctive European performers of her generation, has built a singular body of work that encompasses passionately beloved genre films, auteur cinema, and intimate self-portraiture,” Locarno said. “Argento emerged as one of the most daring presences in cinema, winning two David di Donatello awards for best actress for Perdiamoci di vista (1994) by Carlo Verdone and Traveling Companion (1996) by Peter Del Monte. With her father, Dario Argento, she starred in a slew of dazzling films – starting with Trauma (1993) – that would reshape the legendary Italian auteur’s canon, most famously with The Stendhal Syndrome (1996).” As a performer, she has collaborated with such big-name directors as Patrice Chéreau (Queen Margot, 1994), Abel Ferrara (New Rose Hotel, 1998 and Go Go Tales, 2007), Gus Van Sant (Last Days, 2005), George A. Romero (Land of the Dead, 2005), Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette, 2006), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate, 2007), Catherine Breillat (The Last Mistress, 2007), Bertrand Bonello (On War, 2008), and Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Vera, 2022).