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Out-going Festival director Irene Bignardi says good-bye to the public, holding flowers and a precious stone from a Swiss transalpine tunnel under construction, she was given as a symbolic farewell gift, during the award ceremony on the stage of Piazza Grande, at the 58th International Film Festival Locarno, late Saturday, August 13, 2005, in Locarno, Switzerland. (KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)