72nd Locarno Film Festival
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![]() Official poster of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival by Jannuzzi Smith. | |
Opening film | Magari |
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Closing film | To the Ends of the Earth |
Location | Locarno, Switzerland |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Golden Leopard |
Festival date | 7–17 August 2019 |
Website | Website |
The 72nd annual Locarno Festival was held from 7 August to 17 August 2019.[1] The debut feature by Italian director-producer Ginevra Elkann's Magari opened the festival, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's To the Ends of the Earth was screened as closing film.[2]
Juries[edit]
International Competition[edit]
- Catherine Breillat (Jury President), French filmmaker, novelist and professor
- Ilse Hughan, Producer (The Netherlands)
- Emiliano Morreale, Film critic (Italy)
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Actor (Argentina)
- Angela Schanelec, Filmmaker (Germany)
Filmmakers of the Present[edit]
- Jake Perlin, Producer (USA)
- Shengze Zhu, Filmmaker & Producer (China)
- Yolande Zauberman, Filmmaker (France)
Leopards of Tomorrow[edit]
- Bi Gan, Filmmaker (China)
- Alice Diop, Filmmaker (France)
- Mike Plante, Short films programmer at Sundance (USA)
Moving Ahead[edit]
- Michael Boyce Gillespie, Film theorist and historian (USA)
- Aline Schmid, Producer (Switzerland)
- Eduardo Williams, Filmmaker (Argentina)
Best First Feature Prizes[edit]
- Margherita Chiti, Distributor (Italy)
- Frédéric Jaeger, Artistic Director of Berlin Critics’ Week (Germany)
- Jacqueline Lyanga, Festival Director (USA)
Sections[edit]
Piazza Grande[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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7500 | Germany, Austria | Patrick Vollrath | |
Adoration | Belgium, France | Fabrice Du Welz | |
Camille | France | Boris Lojkine | |
Days of the Bagnold Summer | UK | Simon Bird | |
Diego Maradona | UK | Asif Kapadia | |
Instinct | Netherlands | Halina Reijn | |
The Girl with a Bracelet | La Fille au Bracelet | France, Belgium | Stéphane Demoustier |
A Letter to Freddy Buache | Lettre à Freddy Buache | France | Jean-Luc Godard |
Magari (If Only) | Italy, France | Ginevra Elkann | |
New Acid | France, Switzerland | Basim Magdy | |
Notre Dame | France, Belgique | Valérie Donzelli | |
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | USA | Quentin Tarantino | |
To the Ends of the Earth | Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari | Japan, Uzbekistan, Qatar | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
International Competition (Concorso internazionale)[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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The Fever | A Febre | Brazil, France, Germany | Maya Da-Rin |
Echo | Bergmål | Iceland, France, Switzerland | Rúnar Rúnarsson |
Cat in the Wall | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, France | Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova | |
A Voluntary Year | Das freiwillige Jahr | Germany | Ulrich Köhler , Henner Winckler |
Douze Mille | France | Nadège Trebal | |
During Revolution | Fi Al-Thawra | Syria, Sweden | Maya Khoury |
The Science of Fictions | Hiruk-pikuk si al-kisah | Indonesia, Malaysia, France | Yosep Anggi Noen |
Maternal | Hogar | Italy, Argentina | Maura Delpero |
Isadora's Children | Les Enfants d'Isadora | France, South Korea | Damien Manivel |
Endless Night | Longa noite | Spain | Eloy Enciso |
O Fim do Mundo | Switzerland | Basil Da Cunha | |
Height of the Wave | 파고 | South Korea | Park Jung-bum |
Technoboss | Portugal, France | João Nicolau | |
South Terminal | Terminal Sud | France | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche |
The Last Black Man in San Francisco | USA | Joe Talbot | |
Vitalina Varela | Portugal | Pedro Costa | |
A Girl Missing | よこがお | Japan, France | Koji Fukada |
Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente)[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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143 sahara street | 143 rue du désert | Algeria, France, Qatar | Hassen Ferhani |
Nafi's Father | Baamum Nafi | Senegal | Mamadou Dia |
Ham on Rye | USA | Tyler Taormina | |
Here for Life | UK | Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson | |
Ivana the Terrible | Ivana cea Groaznica | Romania, Serbia | Ivana Mladenović |
The Young Observant | L'apprendistato | Italy | Davide Maldi |
Bird Island | L'Île aux oiseaux | Switzerland | Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa |
The Dove and the Wolf | La Paloma y el Lobo | Mexico | Carlos Lenin |
The Cold Raising The Cold | Lengmo weiyang lengmo | Italy | Rong Guang Rong |
Love Me Tender | Switzerland | Klaudia Reynicke | |
Mariam | Kazakhstan | Sharipa Urazbayeva | |
Wonders in the Suburbs | Merveilles à Montfermeil | France | Jeanne Balibar |
The Tree House | Nhà Cây | Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, France, China | Minh Quý Trương |
Oroslan | Slovenia, Czech Republic | Matjaž Ivanišin | |
Overseas | Belgique, France | Yoon Sung-a | |
Space Dogs | Austria, Germany | Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter |
Moving Ahead[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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(tourism studies) | USA | Joshua Gen Solondz | |
A Topography of Memory | Turkey, Canada | Burak Çevik | |
Black Hole | France | Emmanuel Grimaud, Arnaud Deshayes | |
Color-blind | France, Germany | Ben Russell | |
Distancing | USA | Miko Revereza | |
In Memoriam | France | Jean-Claude Rousseau | |
Kasiterit | Indonesia | Riar Rizaldi | |
Krabi, 2562 | UK, Thailand | Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | |
Lore | USA | Sky Hopinka | |
The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me | Poland, Switzerland | Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | |
Ralf's Colors | Ralfs Farben | Austria, Germany, Spain, France | Lukas Marxt |
Osmosis | Shān Zhī Běi | China | Zhou Tao |
Swinguerra | Brazil | Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | |
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) | USA, France | Ja'Tovia M. Gary | |
The Invisible Hand | China, Germany | Omer Fast | |
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another | UK, Argentina, Spain | Jessica Sarah Rinland | |
Un film dramatique | France | Éric Baudelaire |
Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di domani)[edit]
Leopards of Tomorrow is the festival's competitive program for short films, with separate international and Swiss sections.
International Competition (Concorso internazionale)[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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16 December | 16 de decembro | Spain | Alvaro Gago |
Companions of the Cave | Ahlou al kahef | Tunisia | Fakhri El Ghezal |
All Come From Dust | Tunisia | Younes Ben Slimane | |
All the Fires the Fire | Greece | Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis | |
Flesh | Carne | Brazil, Spain | Camila Kater |
A Street Under | Chão de Rua | Brazil | Tomas von der Osten |
Dossier of the Dossier | Thailand | Sorayos Prapapan | |
Douma Underground | Douma that al ard | Lebanon, Syria | Tim Alsiofi |
The Furniture Maker | El hacedor de muebles | Cuba | David Aviles |
Eyes on the Road | Netherlands | Stefanie Kolk | |
Shiver of Love | Frisson d'amour | France | Maxence Stamatiadis |
How to Tell a True Immigrant Story | USA | Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz | |
In Vitro | United Kingdom, Palestine, Denmark | Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind | |
Unfinished | Incompiuta | Italy | Samira Guadagnuolo, Tiziano Doria |
Tide | Marée | Belgium, France | Manon Coubia |
Mom's Movie | Greece, Spain | Stella Kyriakopoulos | |
Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea... | Moutons, loup et tasse de thé... | France | Marion Lacourt |
Mthunzi | South Africa | Tebogo Malebogo | |
Our Territory | Notre territoire | Belgium | Mathieu Volpe |
Leave of Absence | Otpusk | Russia | Anton Sazonov |
The Last Image of Father | Poslednja slika o ocu | Serbia | Stefan Djordjevic |
Cobalt Blue | Pyar pyar nyo yaung maing ta-lei-lei | Myanmar | Aung Phyoe |
Enduring Body | Râang Ton Taan | Thailand | Ukrit Sa-nguanhai |
Black Sun | Siyah güneş | Turkey, Germany | Arda Çiltepe |
The Animal | Tskhoveli | Georgia | Amiran Dolidze |
Umbilical | USA | Danski Tang | |
Father | Vader | Netherlands | Isabel Lamberti |
Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? | Vulcão: O Que Sonha um Lago? | France, Portugal, Romania | Diana Vidrascu |
White Afro | Ghana, USA | Akosua Adoma Owusu |
Swiss Competition (Concorso nazionale)[edit]
Title | Original title | Country | Director |
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Aline | Switzerland, France | Simon Guélat | |
Life is One of the Simplest | Das Leben ist eines der Leichtesten | Switzerland | Marion Nyffenegger |
Azure Memories | L'azzurro del cielo | Switzerland | Enea Zucchetti |
Mama Rosa | Switzerland | Dejan Barac | |
All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Nachts sind alle Katzen grau | Switzerland | Lasse Linder |
Sas | Switzerland | Léa Célestine Bernasconi | |
Still Working | Switzerland | Julietta Korbel | |
Silent Storm | Tempête silencieuse | Switzerland | Anaïs Moog |
Terminal | Switzerland | Kim Allamand | |
A Summer Morning | Un matin d'été | Switzerland | Patrick Muroni |
At the Pool | À la piscine | Switzerland | Consuelo Frauenfelder, Stefan Lauper |
Awards[edit]
The following awards were presented for films shown In Competition:
International Competition[edit]
- Golden Leopard: Vitalina Varela by Pedro Costa
- Special Jury Prize: Height of the Wave by Park Jung-bum
- Best Direction Award: Damien Manivel for Isadora's Children
- Best Actor Award: Regis Myrupu for The Fever
- Best Actress Award: Vitalina Varela for Vitalina Varela
- Special Mentions:
- The Science of Fictions by Yosep Anggi Noen
- Maternal by Maura Delpero
- Swatch First Feature Awards: Nafi’s Father by Mamadou Dia
Filmmakers of the Present[edit]
- Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Nafi's Father by Mamadou Dia
- Best Emerging Director: Hassen Ferhani for 143 sahara street
- Special Jury Prize: Ivana the Terrible by Ivana Mladenović
- Special Mention: Here for Life by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson
Moving Ahead[edit]
- Moving Ahead Award: The Giverny Document (Single Channel) by Ja'Tovia M. Gary
- Special Mentions:
- Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another by Jessica Sarah Rinland
- Osmosis by Zhou Tao
Leopards of Tomorrow[edit]
- Pardino d'oro for the Best International Short Film – SRG SSR Prize: Black Sun by Arda Çiltepe
- Pardino d'oro for the Best Swiss Short Film – Swiss Life Prize: Mama Rosa by Dejan Barac
- Pardino d'argento SSR SRG for the international competition: Umbilical by Danski Tang
- Pardino d'argento Swiss Life for the national competition: Silent Storm by Anaïs Moog
- Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize: Anton Sazonov for Leave of Absence
References[edit]
- ^ "Information of the 72nd Film Festival". Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "The 72nd Locarno Film Festival announces its opening and closing titles". Retrieved 12 July 2019.