- Source: 74th Locarno Film Festival
The 74th annual Locarno Festival was held from 4 August to 14 August 2021 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was Beckett by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, which had its world premiere on 4 August. The 74th edition of Locarno Film Festival hosted 14 films including 7 world premieres in Piazza Grande among which half were European productions. More than 75,000 spectators attended the festival. 50% less than the attendance rate in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Events
= Rotonda by la Mobiliare - Come together!
=This event will be held from 30 July to 14 August. It is Locarno Film Festival’s communal space, which embraces existing audience and greets new people. It will have following platforms:
Art
Virtual Reality
Forum
Talks
Music
Food and beverage
Kids town
Come together
= Locarno Talks la Mobiliare
=During the course of the film festival, it will be a stage for exchanging and debating ideas and perspectives. It will have encounters with people from the world of art, photography, cinema music, politics and science.
= Cinema and Youth
=This is an initiative open to 28 final year students of high school or vocational school of Switzerland and Northern Italy, aged between 18 and 23. They will be privileged viewers as they may watch the screenings, meet directors and actors/actresses, attend specially organized introductory lectures on film language. In addition they will have access to the sidebar events.
Juries
= International competition
=Eliza Hittman, American filmmaker (Jury President)
Kevin Jerome Everson, American artist and filmmaker
Philippe Lacôte, filmmaker from Ivory Coast
Leonor Silveira, Portuguese actress
Isabella Ferrari, Italian actress
= Filmmakers of the present competition
=Agathe Bonitzer, French actress
Mattie Do, Laotian American filmmaker
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director
= Leopards of Tomorrow
=Kamal Aljafari, Palestinian filmmaker and artist
Marie-Pierre Macia, French Producer
Adina Pintilie (Romanian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and curator)
= First Feature
=Amjad Abu Alala, Sudanese filmmaker
Karina Ressler, Austrian editor
Katharina Wyss, Switzerland filmmaker
Sections
The following films were selected to receive screening in the sections below:
= Pre-Festival
=LYNX by Laurent Geslin
Tomorrow My Love by Gitanjali Rao
= Piazza Grande
== International competition (Concorso internazionale)
=Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard winner
= Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
=Highlighted title indicates winner
= Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di domani)
=International competition (Concorso internazionale)
Highlighted title indicates winner
National competition (Concorso nazionale)
Highlighted title indicates winner
Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
Highlighted title indicates winner
= Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)
== Open Doors Screenings
== History (s) of cinema (Histoire(s) du cinéma)
== Retrospective (Retrospettiva)
== Locarno Kids
== Swiss Panorama (Panorama Suisse)
== International Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique)
=Official Awards
The following awards were presented for films shown in competition:
= International Competition
=Golden Leopard: Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Edwin
Special Jury Prize: A New Old Play by Qui Jiongjiong
Best Direction Award: Abel Ferrara for Zeros and Ones
Best Actor Award: Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar for The Odd-Job Men
Best Actress Award: Anastasiya Krasovskaya, Gerda by Natalya Kudryashova
Special Mentions:
Soul Of A Beast by Lorenz Merz
The Sacred Spirit by Chema García Ibarra
= Filmmakers of the Present Competition
=Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner
Special Jury Prize: L’Été L’éternité by Émilie Aussel
Best Emerging Director: Hleb Papou for Il Legionario
Leopard for the Best Actress: Saskia Rosendahl for No One’s With the Calves
Leopard for the Best Actor: Gia Agumava for Wet Sand
= Leopards of Tomorrow
=International Competition
Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film:
Neon Phantom by Leonardo Martinelli
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition:
The Demons of Dorothy by Alexis Langlois
Pardi di domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering:
Eliane Esther Bots for In Flow of Words
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award:
Home for Myriam Uwiragiye Birara
Special Mentions:
First Time (The Time For All But Sunset – Violet) by Nicolaas Schmidt
National Competition
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film:
Strangers by Nora Longatti
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition:
After A Room by Naomi Pacifique
Best Swiss Newcomer Award:
Flavio Luca Marano, Jumana Issa for It Must
Competition of Author's Courts
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Author Short Film:
Creature by María Silvia Esteve
= First Feature
=Swatch First Feature Award:
She Will by Charlotte Colbert
Special Mention: Holy Emy (Agia Emi) by Araceli Lemos
Special Awards
= Leopard of Honour (Pardo d’onore Manor award)
=John Landis
= Excellence Award Davide Campari
=Laetitia Casta
= Locarno Film Festival Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards
=In Flow of Words
= Special Lifetime Achievement Award
=Dario Argento
= Prix du public UBS Award
=Hinterland by Stefan Ruzowitzky
= Variety Piazza Grande Award
=Rose by Aurélie Saada
References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Dear to Me
- Sinkhole (film 2021)
- Muhammad Zaidy
- Daftar penghargaan dan nominasi yang diterima oleh Lagaan
- 74th Locarno Film Festival
- Locarno Film Festival
- Beckett (film)
- Ida Red (film)
- Zeros and Ones
- Whether the Weather Is Fine
- How Do You Measure a Year?
- Sinkhole (film)
- Free Guy
- She Will (film)
