Locarno, June 26 -- Actor Virginie Efira will be honoured with the Leopard Club Award at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, recognising her contribution to contemporary cinema, according to Variety.

The festival announced that Efira will receive the honour on August 7, when her latest film, All of a Sudden, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, will be screened at the iconic 6,500-seat Piazza Grande venue in the Swiss lakeside town.

Efira recently appeared in the Cannes Film Festival competition with lead roles in Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden and Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales. She also won acting honours at Cannes for her performance in All of a Sudden, for which she partly learned Japanese for the role.

In a statement, the Locar...