Film festival in Locarno, Switzerland
75th Locarno Film Festival Festival poster
Opening film Bullet Train by David Leitch Closing film Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth by André SchäferLocation Locarno , Switzerland Founded 1946 Awards Hosted by Associazione Festival del film Locarno Artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro No. of films226 Festival date Opening: 3 August 2022 (2022-08-03 ) Closing: 13 August 2022 (2022-08-13 ) Website 75 Locarno Film Festival
The 75th annual Locarno Festival opened on 3 August 2022 in Locarno , Switzerland with film Bullet Train by David Leitch .[ 1] The 75th edition of Locarno Film Festival celebrated as diamond jubilee edition screened 226 films including 105 world premieres and 3 international premieres. It hosted retrospective screenings of Douglas Sirk ’s films in its Retrospettiva section.[ 2] [ 3]
The festival closed on 13 August with the Swiss-German documentary film Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth (Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit. ) by André Schäfer. Rule 34 by Julia Murat was awarded the Golden Leopard and The Adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin Special Jury Prize .[ 4]
On the last day of the festival the Variety Piazza Grande Award went to French film Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir, and the Prix du Public UBS, to Swiss-Belgian film Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey. 128,500 audience watched the screenings during the eleven days of the festival, along with the film professionals.[ 5]
Events
Rotonda by la Mobiliare - Come together!
This event was held from July 29 to August 14. It is Locarno Film Festival’s communal space, featuring a wide range of entertainment and discoveries, open and accessible to all. It constituted following platforms:
Music
Art
Food and beverage
Exhibition SocialSim by Hito Steyerl
VR Experience
In collaboration with Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)
Film Festival Tour by Ascona-Locarno
Exhibition René Burri
Skies by Kollektiv Beton @ BaseCamp
A 24h long talk on the Future of Attention
Juries
International Competition
Filmmakers of the Present
Leopards of Tomorrow
First Feature
Green Pardo WWF
Thierry Hugot, responsible for the Sustainability Study Group at Eurimages
Sonia I. Seneviratne , Swiss climate scientist, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich
Alessandro Rak, Italian cartoonist, animator and director
Sections
Sources:[ 6] [ 7]
Pre-Festival
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens
Alain Ughetto
France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland
Piazza Grande
International competition (Concorso internazionale )
Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard winner
English Title
Original title
Director(s)
Production Country
The Adventures of Gigi the Law
Gigi la legge
Alessandro Comodin
Italy, France, Belgium
At Night the Cats Are Brown
De noche los gatos son pardos
Valentin Merz
Switzerland
Declaration
Ariyippu
Mahesh Narayanan
India
Fairytale
Skazka
Alexander Sokurov
Belgium, Russia
Human Flowers of Flesh
Helena Wittmann
Germany, France
I Have Electric Dreams
Tengo sueños eléctricos
Valentina Maurel
Belgium, France, Costa Rica
Il Pataffio
Francesco Lagi
Italy
Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Austria
Piaffe
Ann Oren
Germany
Rule 34
Regra 34
Julia Murat
Brazil
Sermon to the Fish
Balıqlara xütbə
Hilal Baydarov
Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey
Saturn Bowling
Bowling Saturne
Patricia Mazuy
France, Belgium
Serviam – I Will Serve
Serviam – Ich will dienen
Ruth Mader
Austria
Stella in Love
Stella est amoureuse
Sylvie Verheyde
France
Stone Turtle
Woo Ming Jin
Malaysia, Indonesia
Tales of the Purple House
Hikayat elbeit elorjowani
Abbas Fahdel
Lebanon, Iraq, France
Tommy Guns
Nação Valente
Carlos Conceição
Portugal, France, Angola
Filmmakers of the present competition (Concorso Cineasti del presente )
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
A Perfect Day for Caribou
Jeff Rutherford
United States
Arnold Is a Model Student
Arnon pen nakrian tuayang
Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Philippines
Astrakan
David Depesseville
France
Before I Change My Mind
Trevor Anderson
Canada
Fragments From Heaven
Adnane Baraka
Morocco, France
How Is Katia?
Yak Tam Katia?
Christina Tynkevych
Ukraine
It Is Night in America
É Noite na América
Ana Vaz
Italy, France, Brazil
Little Ones
Petites
Julie Lerat-Gersant
France
Love Dog
Bianca Lucas
Poland, Mexico, United States
Matadero
Santiago Fillol
Argentina, Spain, France
Nightsiren
Svetlonoc
Tereza Nvotová
Slovakia, Czech Republic
Our Lady of the Chinese Shop
Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês
Ery Claver
Angola
Petrol
Alena Lodkina
Australia
Safe Place
Sigurno mjesto
Juraj Lerotić
Croatia
Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?
Den siste våren
Franciska Eliassen
Norway
Leopards of tomorrow (Pardi di domani)
International competition (Concorso internazionale )
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
AirHostess-737
Thanasis Neofotistos
Greece
At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago
Andrew Stephen Lee
United States
Neighbour Abdi
Buurman Abdi
Douwe Dijkstra
Netherlands
Castells
Blanca Camell Galí
France, Spain
Dancing Colors
M. Reza Fahriyansyah
Indonesia
Daron, Daron Colbert
Kevin Steen
United States
Pillow Face
Faccia di cuscino
Saverio Cappiello
Italy
Hardly Working
Total Refusal
Austria
Diamond Kid
L'Enfant au diamant
Pierre Edouard Dumora
France
Shadow of the Butterflies
L'Ombre des papillons
Sofia El Khyari
France, Portugal, Qatar, Morocco
Lake of Fire
NEOZOON
Germany
Balls
Lopte
Gorana Jovanović
Serbia, Slovenia
Moon That Cracks Over the Darkness of My Loneliness
Luna que se quiebra sobre la tiniebla de mi soledad
Lucila Mariani
Argentina
Mother Prays All Day Long
Madar tamame rooz doa mikhanad
Hoda Taheri
Germany
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Mini-mini-pokke no okina niwa de
YUKI Yoko
Japan
Misaligned
Marta Magnuska
Poland, Latvia
Money and Happiness
Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr
Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia
Mulika
Maisha Maene
Democratic Republic of Congo
Sovereign
Soberane
Wara
Cuba
Tiger Stabs Tiger
SHEN Jie
China
National Competition (Concorso nazionale)
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Brandon Roi
Romain Jaccoud
Switzerland
The Newt Congress
Der Molchkongress
Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser
Euridice, Euridice
Lora Mure-Ravaud
Fairplay
Zoel Aeschbacher
Heart Fruit
Kim Allamand
Heartbeat
Michèle Flury
I’m the Only One I Wanna See
Lucia Martinez Garcia
Gods of the Supermarket
Les Dieux du supermarché
Alberto Gonzalez Morales
Limits
Limites
Simon de Diesbach
Serafina
Noa Epars, Anna Simonetti
Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Asterión
Francesco Montagner
Czech Republic, Slovakia
At Dusk
Au crépuscule
Miryam Charles
Canada
Big Bang
Carlos Segundo
France, Brazil
Song for the Buried City
Chant pour la ville enfouie
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
France
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It
Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans
Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
France
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Kamal Aljafari
Palestine, Germany
Poitiers
Jérôme Reybaud
France
Nothing Will Be the Same Again
Rien ne sera plus comme avant
Elina Löwensohn
France
Last Screening
Songy Seans
Darezhan Omirbaev
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
That’s How the Summer Ended
Tako se je končalo poletje
Matjaž Ivanišin
Slovenia, Hungary, Italy
Pardi do domani: Evento speciale
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Let’s make something ('Mano destra, Mano sinistra', 'Limes', 'Ci andavo in bicicletta', 'Lorem Ipsum', 'Buio', 'Virilio|Brecht', 'Nido di Pietra', 'La visita', 'Happy Homes', 'Sonnenstube', 'The Fortunates', 'Please make it work')
Younes Ben Slimane, Caterina Biasiucci, Matilde Casari, Ben Donateo, María Silvia Esteve, Antonio Valerio Frascella, Reto Gelshorn, Maria Giménez Cavallo, Agnese Làposi, Davide Palella, Moona Pennanen, Daniel Soares
Switzerland
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Candy Land
John Swab
United States
ERICA JONG - breaking the wall
Kaspar Kasics
Switzerland
Continental Drift (South)
La dérive des continents (au sud)
Lionel Baier
Switzerland, France
Lola
Andrew Legge
Ireland, United Kingdom
Obscure night - Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate)
Nuit obscure - Feuillets sauvages (Les brûlants, les obstinés)
Sylvain George
France, Switzerland
Love Lights
Objectos de Luz
Acácio de Almeida, Marie Carré
Portugal
Where Is This Street? or With No Before And After
Onde Fica Esta Rua? ou Sem Antes Nem Depois
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Portugal, France
Prisma
Ludovico Bessegato
Italy
Prologos
Mantas Kvedaravičius
Lithuania, Greece
W
Anna Eriksson
Finland
Open Doors Screenings
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
90 Minutes
90 minutos
Aeden O'Connor Agurcia
Honduras
Ayiti mon amour
Guetty Felin
Haiti, United States
Option Zero
La opción cero
Marcel Beltrán
Brazil, Cuba, Colombia
Medea
Alexandra Latishev Salazar
Costa Rica, Chile
Right Near the Beach
Gibrey Allen
United States, Jamaica
Roza
Andres Rodríguez
Guatemala, Mexico
The Fishes Within
Todos los peces
Brenda Vanegas
El Salvador
A Film About Couples
Una película sobre parejas
Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada
Dominican Republic
Open Doors Short Films Screenings
Original Title
Director
Production Country
Agwe
Samuel Frantz Suffren
Haiti
Black Doll
Akley Olton
Saint Vincent, Grenadines
Hojas de K.
Gloria Carrión
Nicaragua, Costa Rica
Liremu Barana
Elvis Caj Cojoc
Guatemala, Norway
Negra soy'
Laura Bermúdez
Honduras
Out of many
Rebecca Williams
Jamaica
Scars of Our Mothers’ Dreams
Meschida Philip
Grenada
Techos Rotos
Yanillys Pérez
Dominican Republic
Tundra
José Luis Aparicio Ferrera
Cuba
Umbra
Daniela Muñoz Barroso
Cuba
History(s) of Cinema (Histoire(s) du Cinéma)
Retrospective (Retrospettiva)
Homages
Locarno Kids
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Bombay Rose
Gitanjali Rao
India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar
I Don’t Wanna Dance
Flynn Von Kleist
Netherlands
La freccia azzurra
Enzo D'Alò
Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg
The Red Balloon
Le Ballon rouge
Albert Lamorisse
France
How I Learned to Fly
Leto kada sam naučila da letim
Radivoje Andrić
Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia
Omar & Pincette
Julien Sulser
Switzerland
Princesse Dragon
Jean-Jacques Denis, Anthony Roux
France
Sihja, The Rebel Fairy
Sihja - kapinaa ilmassa
Marja Pyykkö
Finland, Netherlands, Norway
Yuku et la fleur d'Himalaya
Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin
Belgium, France, Switzerland
International Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique)
English Title
Original title
Director(s)
Production Country
Ruthless Times - Songs of Care
Armotonta menoa - Hoivatyön lauluja
Susanna Helke
Finland
Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain
Susanna della Sala
Italy
The River is not a Border
Maayo Wonaa Keerol (Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière)
Alassane Diago
France, Senegal, Germany
The Visitors
Veronika Lišková
Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia
Fledglings
Pisklaki
Lidia Duda
Poland
The DNA of Dignity
Jan Baumgartner
Switzerland
The Hamlet Syndrome
Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski
Poland, Germany
Swiss Panorama (Panorama Suisse)
English Title
Original Title
Director
Production Country
Action
Benoît Monney
Switzerland
ALA KACHUU - Take and Run
Maria Brendle
Dans la nature
Marcel Barelli
A Piece of Sky
Drii Winter
Michael Koch
Switzerland, Germany
Hugo in Argentina
Stefano Knuchel
Switzerland
Love Will Come Later
Julia Furer
Loving Highsmith
Eva Vitija
Official Awards
Sources: [ 8] [ 9]
International Competition
Filmmakers of the Present
Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present : Nightsiren by Tereza Nvotová
Special Jury Prize : How Is Katia? by Christina Tynkevych
Best Emerging Director : Juraj Lerotić for Safe Place
Leopard for the Best Actress : Anastasia Karpenko for How Is Katia?
Leopard for the Best Actor : Goran Marković for Safe Place
Special Mention : Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? by Franciska Eliassen
Leopards of Tomorrow
International Competition (Concorso Internazionale)
Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film:
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition:
Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
Pardi di domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering:
Hardly Working by Total Refusal
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award:
Special Mentions:
Mother Prays All Day Long by Hoda Taheri
National Competition (Concorso Nazionale)
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film:
Euridice, Euridice by Lora Mure-Ravaud
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition:
The Newt Congress by Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser
Best Swiss Newcomer Award:
Michèle Flury for Heartbeat
Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film:
Big Bang by Carlos Segundo
First Feature
Swatch First Feature Award: Safe Place by Juraj Lerotić
Special Mention:
Love Dog by Bianca Lucas
At Night the Cats Are Brown by Valentin Merz
Green Pardo WWF
Pardo Verde WWF :
Matter Out of Time by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Special Mentions:
Sermon to the Fish by Hilal Baydarov
It Is Night in America by Ana Vaz
Piazza Grande
Audience award (Prix du Public UBS):
Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey
Variety Piazza Grande Award:
Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir
Independent jury awards
Ecumenical Jury Award
Stone Turtle by Ming Jin Woo
European Cinemas Label Award
Tommy Guns by Carlos Conceição
International Critics' Week
Grand Prix:
The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowsk
Premio Zonta Club Locarno:
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care by Susanna Helke
Marco Zucchi Award:
Junior Jury Awards
Junior Jury Award: Piaffe by Ann Oren
Runner-up: Tommy Guns by Carlos Conceição
Second runner-up: Serviam – Ich Will Dienen by Ruth Mader
Environment Award: Sermon to the Fish by Hilal Baydarov
Cineasti del Presente Award: Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick?, by Franciska Eliassen
Special Mention: Petites by Julie Lerat-Gersant
Best International Short Film: Hardly Working by Total Refusal
Best Swiss Short Film: Fairplay by Zoel Aeschbacher
Special Mention: Les Dieux du Supermarché by Alberto Gonzalez Morales
Open Doors Short Award: Techos Rotos by Yanillys Pérez
Special Awards
Matt Dillon winner of Leopard of Honour lifetime achievement award
Costa-Gavras winner of Leopard Career Award
Kelly Reichardt winner of Leopard of Honour
Sources: [ 11] [ 12]
Locarno Kids Award (la Mobiliare)
Pardo alla carriera (Leopard Career Award)
Vision Award Ticinomoda
Premio Raimondo Rezzonico
Excellence Award Davide Campari
Leopard Club Award
References
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