Locarno 2019 Winners

72nd Locarno Film Festival Winners

Concorso Internazionale

Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard), Grand Prize of the City of Locarno
VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa, Portugal

Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize) of the Cities of Ascona and Losone
PA-GO (Height of the Wave) by PARK Jung-bum, South Korea

Pardo per la migliore regia (Leopard for Best Direction) of the City and Region of Locarno
Damien Manivel for LES ENFANTS D’ISADORA, France/South Korea

Pardo per la migliore interpretazione femminile (Leopard for Best Actress)
Vitalina Varela for VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa, Portugal

Pardo per la migliore interpretazione maschile (Leopard for Best Actor)
Regis Myrupu for A FEBRE by Maya Da-Rin, Brazil/France/Germany

Special Mention
HIRUK-PIKUK SI AL-KISAH (The Science of Fictions) by Yosep Anggi Noen, Indonesia/Malaysia/France
MATERNAL by Maura Delpero, Italie/Argentine


Concorso Cineasti del presente

Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente (Cineasti del presente Golden Leopard) BAAMUM NAFI (Nafi’s Father) by Mamadou Dia, Senegal

Premio per il migliore regista emergente (Best Emerging Director Award) of the City and Region of Locarno

143 RUE DU DÉSERT by Hassen Ferhani, Algeria/France/Qatar

Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente (Special Jury Prize)
IVANA CEA GROAZNICA (Ivana the Terrible) by Ivana Mladenović, Romania/Serbia

Special Mention
HERE FOR LIFE by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson, United Kingdom


Moving Ahead

Moving Ahead Award
THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL) by Ja’Tovia M. Gary, USA/France

Special Mentions
THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER by Jessica Sarah Rinland, United Kingdom/Argentina/Spain

SHĀN ZHĪ BĚI (Osmosis) by ZHOU Tao, China

First Feature Swatch First Feature Award
BAAMUM NAFI (Nafi’s Father) by Mamadou Dia, Senegal

Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
LA PALOMA Y EL LOBO (The Dove and the Wolf) by Carlos Lenin, Mexico

Special Mention
INSTINCT by Halina Reijn, Netherlands
FI AL-THAWRA (During Revolution) by Maya Khoury, Syria/Sweden


Pardi di domani Concorso internazionale

Pardino d’oro for the best international short film – Premio SRG SSR SIYAH GÜNEŞ (Black Sun) by Arda Çiltepe, Turkey/Germany

Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the Pardi di domani International competition
UMBILICAL by Danski Tang, USA

Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize
PIANIFICA OTPUSK (Leave of Absence) by Anton Sazonov, Russia

Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Prize
WHITE AFRO by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana/USA

Concorso nazionale Pardino d’oro for the best Swiss short film – Premio Swiss Life
MAMA ROSA by Dejan Barac, Switzerland

Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the Pardi di domani National competition
TEMPÊTE SILENCIEUSE by Anaïs Moog, Switzerland

Best Swiss Newcomer Prize
TERMINAL by Kim Allamand, Switzerland

Variety Piazza Grande Award
INSTINCT by Halina Reijn, Netherlands

LOCARNO WINNERS 2016

LOCARNO WINNERS 2016

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Leopard: Godless by Ralitza Petrova (Bulgaria/Denmark/France)
Special Jury Prize: Inimi Cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts) by Radu Jude (Romania/Germany)
Best Director: João Pedro Rodrigues for O Ornitólogo (Portugal/France/Brazil)
Best Actress: Irena Ivanova for Godless by Ralitza Petrova (Bulgaria/Denmark/France)
Best Actor: Andrzej Seweryn for Ostatnia Rodzina (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński (Poland)
Special Mention: Mister Universo by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel (Austria/Italy)

FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT

Golden Leopard – Premio Nescens: El Auge del Humano by Eduardo Williams (Argentina/Brazil/Portugal)
Special Jury Prize: The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani (Italy/France/Switzerland)
Best Emerging Director: Mariko Tetsuya for Destruction Babies (Japan)
Special Mention: Viejo Calavera by Kiro Russo (Bolivia/Qatar)

FIRST FEATURE

Best First Feature: El Futuro Perfecto by Nele Wohlatz (Argentina)
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award: Maud Alpi for Gorge Cœur Ventre (France)
Special Mention: El Auge del Humano by Eduardo Williams (Argentina/Brazil/Portugal)

LEOPARDS OF TOMORROW

Golden Leopard for Best International Short: L’immense Retour (Romance) by Manon Coubia (Belgium/France)
Silver Leopard: Cilaos by Camilo Restrepo (France)
Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianifica: L’immense Retour (Romance) by Manon Coubia (Belgium/France)
Film and Video Subtitling: Valparaiso by Carlo Sironi (Italy)
Special Mention: Non Castus by Andrea Castillo (Chile)

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Leopard for Best Swiss Short – Premio Swiss Life: Die Brücke Über Den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland)
Silver Leopard: Genesis by Lucien Monot (Switzerland)
Best Swiss Newcomer Award: La Sève by Manon Goupil (Switzerland)
Audience Award: I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach (United Kingdom/France/Belgium)
Variety Piazza Grande Award: Moka by Frédéric Mermoud (France/Switzerland)

LOCARNO 2016

69th LOCARNO Film Festival - August 3-13

Complete Line-up announced:

Piazza Grande

AM TAG, ALS DER REGEN KAM by Gerd Oswald Germany

CESSEZ-LE-FEU by Emmanuel Courcol France

COMBOIO DE SAL E AÇUCAR by Licinio Azevedo Portugal/Mozambique/France/South Africa/Brazil

DANS LA FORÊT by Gilles Marchand France/Sweden

I, DANIEL BLAKE by Ken Loach United Kingdom/France/Belgium

INTERCHANGE by Dain Iskandar Said Malaysia/Indonesia

JASON BOURNE by Paul Greengrass USA

LE CIEL ATTENDRA by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar France

MOHENJO DARO by Ashutosh Gowariker India

MOKA by Frédéric Mermoud France/Switzerland

PAULA by Christian Schwochow Germany/France

POESÍA SIN FIN by Alejandro Jodorowsky France/Chile

TEO-NEOL (The Tunnel) by Kim Seong-hun South Corea

THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by Colm McCarthy United Kingdom/USA

VINCENT by Christophe Van Rompaey France/Belgium

VOR DER MORGENRÖTE – STEFAN ZWEIG IN AMERIKA by Maria Schrader Germany/France/Austria
 

Concorso Internazionale

AL MA’ WAL KHODRA WAL WAJH EL HASSAN (Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces) by Yousry Nasrallah Egypt

BANGKOK NITES by Katsuya Tomita Japan/France/Thailand/Laos

CORRESPONDÊNCIAS by Rita Azevedo Gomes Portugal

DAO KHANONG (By the Time It Gets Dark) by Anocha Suwichakornpong Thailand/Netherlands/France/Qatar

DER TRAUMHAFTE WEG by Angela Schanelec Germany

GODLESS by Ralitza Petrova Bulgaria/Denmark/France

HERMIA & HELENA by Matías Piñeiro USA/Argentina

INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hearts) by Radu Jude Romania/Germany

JEUNESSE by Julien Samani France/Portugal

KAZE NI NURETA ONNA (Wet Woman in the Wind) by Akihiko Shiota Japan

LA IDEA DE UN LAGO by Milagros Mumenthaler Switzerland/Argentina/Qatar

LA PRUNELLE DE MES YEUX by Axelle Ropert France

MARIJA by Michael Koch Germany/Switzerland

MISTER UNIVERSO by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel Austria/Italy

O ORNITÓLOGO by João Pedro Rodrigues Portugal/France/Brazil

OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan Matuszynski Poland

SLAVA (Glory) by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov Bulgaria/Greece
 

Concorso Cineasti del Presente

AFTERLOV by Stergios Paschos Greece

AKHDAR YABES (Withered Green) by Mohammed Hammad Egypt

DESTRUCTION BABIES by Tetsuya Mariko Japan

DONALD CRIED by Kris Avedisian USA

EL AUGE DEL HUMANO by Eduardo Williams Argentina/Brazil/Portugal

EL FUTURO PERFECTO by Nele Wohlatz Argentina

GORGE CŒUR VENTRE by Maud Alpi France

I HAD NOWHERE TO GO by Douglas Gordon Germany

IL NIDO by Klaudia Reynicke Switzerland/Italy

ISTIRAHATLAH KATA-KATA (Solo, Solitude) by Yosep Anggi Noen Indonesia

L’INDOMPTÉE by Caroline Deruas France

MAÑANA A ESTA HORA by Lina Rodríguez Colombia/Canada

PESCATORI DI CORPI by Michele Pennetta Switzerland

THE CHALLENGE by Yuri Ancarani Italy/France/Switzerland

VIEJO CALAVERA by Kiro Russo Bolivia/Qatar
 

Signs of Life

300 MILES by Orwa Al Mokdad Syria/Lebanon

ANASHIM SHEHEM LO ANI (People That Are Not Me) by Hadas Ben Aroya Israel

ASCENT by Fiona Tan Netherlands/Japan

BEDUINO by Júlio Bressane Brazil

POW WOW by Robinson Devor USA

SVI SEVERNI GRADOVI (All the Cities of the North) by Dane Komljen Serbia/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Montenegro

RAT FILM by Theo Anthony USA

THE SUN, THE SUN BLINDED ME by Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal Poland/Switzerland

 

Locarno 2015 Winners

Locarno 2015 Winners

 

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Leopard Right Now, Wrong Then - Director: Hong Sang-soo

 

Special Jury Prize Tikkun - Director: Avishai Sivan

Best Direction Andrzej Zulawski for Cosmos

Best Actress Tanaka Sachie, Kikuchi Hazuki, Mihara Maiko and Kawamura Rira for Happy Hour

Best Actor Jung Jae-Young for Right Now, Wrong Then

Special Mention
Script for Happy Hour by Hamaguchi Ryusuke
Cinematography for Tikkun by Shai Goldman

FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT

Golden Leopard Thithi - Director: Raam Reddy

Special Jury Prize Dead Slow Ahead - Director: Mauro Herce

Best Emerging Director Kaili Blues - Director: BI Gan

Best First Feature Thithi - Director: Raam Reddy

Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award Paradise - Director: Sina Ataeian Dena

Special Mentions
Kaili Blues - Director: Bi Gan
Kiev/Moscow. Part 1 - Director: Elena Khoreva

LEOPARDS OF TOMORROW

Golden Leopard for Best International Short Mama - Director: Davit Pirtskhalava

Silver Leopard La Impresión de una Guerra - Director: Camilo Restrepo

Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards

Fils du Loup - Director: Lola Quivoron

Video Subtitling Award Mama - Director: Davit Pirtskhalava

Special Mention Nueva Vida - Director: Kiro Russo 

          

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Leopard for Best Swiss Short  Le Barrage -Director: Samuel Grandchamp

Silver Leopard D’Ombres et D’Ailes - Directors: Eleonora Marinoni and Elice Meng

Best Swiss Newcomer Les monts s’embrassent - Director: Laura Morales
 

Public Prize Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer - Director: Lars Kraume



LOCARNO 2015

68th LOCARNO Film Festival - August 5-15

 

Complete Line-up announced:

 PIAZZA GRANDE

• Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)
• La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)
• Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)
• Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)
• Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)
• Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)
• Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)
• Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)
• The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)
• Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)
• Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
• Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)
• Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)
• La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)
• The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA)
• I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
• Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)
• Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder, Switzerland/France)

CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

• Bella e perduta (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
• Brother Dejan (Bakur Bakuradze, Russia/Serbia)
• Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece)
• Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski, France/Portugal)
• Entertainment (Rick Alverson, USA)
• Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
• Heimatland (Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nölle, Lionel Rupp, Mike Scheiwiller, Switzerland/Germany)
• James White (Josh Mond, USA)
• Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
• Paradise (Sina Ataeian Dena, Iran/Germany)
• No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France)
• O futebol (Sergio Oksman, Spain)
• Schneider vs. Bax (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands/Belgium)
• Suite armoricaine (Pascale Breton, France)
• Dark in the White Light (Vimukthi Jayasundra, Sri Lanka/France)
• Te prometo anarquia (Julio Hernández Cordón, Mexico/Germany)
• The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers, UK)
• Tikkun (Avishai Sivan, Israel)

CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE

• Motherland (Senem Tüzen, Turkey/Greece)
• Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce, Spain/France)
• Der nachmahr (AKIZ, Germany)
• Dom Juan (Vincente Macaigne, France)
• Dream Land (Steve Chen, Cambodia/USA)
• El movimiento (Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina/South Korea)
• Keeper (Guillaume Senez, Belgium/Switzerland/France)
• Le grand jeu (Nicolas Pariser, France)
• Les etres chers (Anne Émond, Canada)
• Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, China)
• Moj brate - mio fratello (Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti, Italy/Canada/Bosnia-Herzegovina)
• Olmo & The Seagull (Petra Costa, Lea Glob, Denmark/Brazil/Portugal/France)
• Siembra (Ángela Osorio Rojas, Santiago Lozano Álvarez, Columbia/Germany)
• The Waiting Room (Igor Drijaca, Canada)
• Thithi (Raam Reddy, India)

SIGNS OF LIFE

• 88:88 (Isiah Medina, Canada)
• Mr. Zhang Believes (Qiu Jiongjiong, China)
• Deux Remi, deux (Pierre Leon, France/Switzerland)
• L'accademia delle muse (José Luis Guerin, Spain)
• L'infinita fabbrica del duomo (Martina Parenti, Massimo D'anolfi, Italy)
• Machine Gun or Typewriter? (Travis Wilkerson, USA)
• Recollection (Kamal Aljafari, Germany)
• Slackjaw (Zach Weintraub, USA)

FUORI CONCORSO - Features

• Contre-pouvoirs (Malek Bensmail, Algeria/France)
• Fragments du paradis (Stéphane Goël, Switzerland)
• Genitori (Alberto Fasulo, Italy)
• I sogni del lago salato (Andrea Segre, Italy)
• Kaki Kouba (Kauzhiro Soda, Japan/USA)
• Kiev/Moscow. Part 1 (Elena Khoreva, Russia/Estonia/Ukraine)
• Le bois dont les reves sont faits (Claire Simon, France/Switzerland)
• Romeo e Giulietta (Massimo Coppola, Italy)
• Topophilia (Peter Bo Rappmund, USA)
• Vivere alla grande (Fabio Leli, Italy)
• Yes No Maybe (Kasper Kasics, Switzerland)

FUORI CONCORSO - Shorts

• Estratos de la imagen (Lois Patiño, Spain)
• L'architecte de Saint-Gaudens (Julie Desprairies, Serge Bozon, France)
• Noite sem distancia (Lois Patiño, Spain)
• Riot (Nathan Silver, USA)
• The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal (Manuel Mozos, Portugal)
• Undisclosed Recipients (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal) 
• Anfangsszene (Karolin Meunier, Germany)
• It, Heat, Hit (Laure Prouvost, UK)
• The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, UK)
• Turbulent (Shirin Neshat, USA)
• Twelve (Melanie Manchot, UK)
• Kid (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
• The Mirror (Rodrigo Lima, Brazil)
• The Mayor (Bruno Safadi, Brazil)
• Origin of the World (Mao Batsow, Brazil)

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA

• Marco Bellochio: Buongiorno, notte (2003), I pugni in tasca (1965), L'ora di religione (2002), Vincere (2009)
• Michael Cimino: Heaven's Gate (1980), The Deer Hunter (1978), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Year of the Dragon (1986)
• Edward Norton: 25th Hour (2002), Fight Club (1999), The Painted Veil (2006)
• Andy Garcia: The Lost City (2005), The Untouchables (1987)
• Walter Murch: Apocalypse Now (1979), Return to Oz (1985), Particle Fever (2013), Touch of Evil (1958)
• Bulle Ogier: Belle toujours (2006), Et crac (1969), La salamandre (1971), La vallee (1972), Le pont du nord (1981), Les idoles (1968)
• Marlen Khutsiev: Infinitas (1992), It Was the Month of May (1970), Two Fyodor (1958), July Rain (1966), Khutsiev. Action starts! (2015), Afterword (1984), Bastione Il'ich (1965)
• Alex Phillips: Crepusculo (1944), En la palma de tu mano (1950), La mujer del puerto (1933), Subida al cielo (1952)
• Teco Celio: L'amore probabilmente (2001)
• Georges Schwizgebel
• Kurt Früh: Dallebach Kari (1970), Hinter den sieben gleisen (1959)
• A qualcuno piacera - storia e storie di Elio Pandolfi (Caterina Taricano, Claudio de Pasqualis, Italy)
• I Don't Belong Anywhere - Le cinema de Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert, Belgium)
• Karlovy Vary: Invention for Destruction (1958)

RETROSPETTIVA SAM PECKINPAH - Feature Films

• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
• Convoy (1978)
• Junior Bonner (1972)
• Major Dundee (1965)
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
• Ride the High Country (1962)
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
• The Cross of Iron (1977)
• The Deadly Companions (1961)
• The Getaway (1972)
• The Killer Elite (1975)
• The Osterman Weekend (1983)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)

RETROSPETTIVA SAM PECKINPAH - TV Series

• ABC Stage 67 / Noon Wine (1966)
• Broken Arrow / The Teacher (1957)
• Klondike / Swoger's Mule (1960)
• Man without a Gun / The Kidder (1959)
• Tales of Wells Fargo / Apache Gold (1957)
• The Dick Powell Theater / Pericles on 31st Street (1962)
• The Dick Powell Theater / The Losers (1963)
• The Rifleman (1958-1959)
• The Westerner (1960)
• Zane Grey Theater / Lonesome Road (1959)
• Zane Grey Theater / Trouble at Tres Cruces (1959)
• Tombstone Territory / Johnny Ringo's Last Ride (1958)

RETROSPETTIVA SAM PECKINPAH - Archives

• Etoiles et toiles / Sam Peckinpah (1985)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Jinxed! (1982)
• Passion & Poetry - The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
• Portrat of a Madonna (1952)
• Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1992)
• Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
• The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
• The Glory Guys (1965)
• The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996)
• Tom Tit Tot (1958)

PARDI DI DOMANI - Concorso internazionale

• Zeus (Pavel Vesnakov, Germany/Bulgaria)
• Dear Director (Marcus Lindeen, Sweden)
• Des milions de larmes (Natalie Beder, France)
• Eco (Xacio Bano, Spain)
• Fils de loup (Lola Quivoron, France)
• Guilliver, Maria Alche, Argentina)
• Historia de uma pena (Leonardo Mouramateus, Brazil)
• I Remember Nothing (Zia Anger, USA)
• Junilyn Has (Carlo Francisco Manatad, Philippines)
• KM 73 (Radu Ghelbereu, UK/Romania)
• La impresion de una guerra (Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia)
• La novia de Frankenstein (Agostina Galvez, Francisco Lezama, Argentina)
• Lampedusa (Phlip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello, Italy/France/USA)
• Les cuarto esquinas del circulo (Katarina Stankovic, Germany/Mexico/Serbia)
• Mama (Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia)
• Maria do mar (Joao Rosas, Portugal)
• Nothing Human (Tom Rosenberg, USA)
• Nueva vida (Jola Wierczorek, Austria/Portugal)
• O teto sobre nos (Bruno Carboni, Brazil)
• Reflections (Osi Wald, Israel)
• Renaitre (Jean-Francois Ravagnan, Belgium)
• The Ebb of Forgetting (Liryc Dela Cruz, Philippines)
• Salarie oriental (Rinat Bekchintayev, Egor Shevchenko, Russia)
• Yellow Fieber (Konstantina Kotzamani, Greece)

PARDI DI DOMANI - Concorso nazionale

• Babor Casanova (Karim Sayad, Switzerland)
• D'ombres et d'ailes (Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng (Switzerland/France)
• Ein ort Wie Dieser (Philip Meyer, Switzerland)
• Hausarrest (Matthias Sahli, Switzerland)
• Joconde (Lora Mure-Ravaud, Switzerland)
• Just Another Day in Egypt (Conrina Schwingruber Ilic, Nikola Ilic, Switzerland)
• La riviere sous la langue (Carmen Jaquier, Switzerland)
• Le barrage (Samuel Grandchamp, Switzerland/USA)
• Les monts s'embrasent (Laura Morales, Switzerland)
• Persi (Caterina Mona, Switzerland)
• The Meadow (Jela Hasler, Switzerland)