- Source: 76th Locarno Film Festival
The 76th annual Locarno Festival was held from 2 August to 12 August 2023 in Locarno, Switzerland.
French actor Lambert Wilson was the head of the Main Competition Jury. American filmmaker Harmony Korine received the Pardo d’Onore Manor.
Iranian film Critical Zone, directed by Ali Ahmadzadeh, was the winner of the Golden Leopard, the festival main prize. Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World was the winner of the Special Jury Prize.
For this year edition, the acting categories (Best Actor/Best Actress) became gender-neutral after the creation of the Best Performance category. At the Main Competition, the winners were Dimitra Vlagopoulou for Animal and Renée Soutendijk for Sweet Dreams.
Juries
= Concorso Internazionale - Main Competition
=Lambert Wilson, French actor - Jury President
Charlotte Wells, Scottish filmmaker
Matthijs Wouter Knol, Dutch CEO and Director of the European Film Academy
Lesli Klainberg, President of Film at Lincoln Center
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Iranian actress and producer
= Filmmakers of the Present Competition
=Beatrice Fiorentino, Italian General Delegate of the Film Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival
Erige Sehiri, French-Tunisian director
Helena Wittmann, German filmmaker
= Leopard of Tomorrow
=Matthew Rankin, Canadian filmmaker
Amos Sussigan, Swiss director and production designer
Ewa Puszczyńska, Polish producer
= First Feature
=Devika Girish, Indian-American film critic and programmer
Omar El Zohairy, Egyptian filmmaker
Isabel Sandoval, Filipina filmmaker
= Pardo Verde Ricola (Green Leopard)
=Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iranian filmmaker
Arami Ullón, Swiss-Paraguayan director, screenwriter and producer
Moussa Sene Absa, Senegalese filmmaker and painter
Official Sections
= Piazza Grande
=17 films, including 9 world premieres, were screened at the Piazza Grande, Locarno's open-air theater that accommodates a nightly audience of up to 8,000 people:
= Main Competition (Concorso Internazionale)
=The Concorso internazionale explores new territories in moviemaking. This year's selection of 17 titles, all world premieres and one as an international premiere, will be competing for the Pardo d’oro:
= Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)
=The Fuori concorso section features 12 films, of which 11 are world premieres, from outstanding directors’ intent on exploring new possibilities in filmic narration:
= Filmmakers of the Present Competition (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
=The Concorso Cineasti del presente selection, dedicated to discovering the cinema of tomorrow, comprises 15 films: first and second features, all world premieres:
= Leopard of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)
=The Pardi di domani section, dedicated to short films by emerging Swiss and international directors, combines with auteur shorts competition Concorso Corti d’autore to screen a total of 40 films, all presented as world premieres. The selection is completed by the collection of short films made during the Spring Academy, led this year by director Radu Jude:
Concorso Internazionale
Concorso Nazionale
Concorso Corti d’Autore
Pardi di Domani: Special event
= Open Doors: Screenings
=In the second of three years dedicated to cinemas in Latin America and the Caribbean, Open Doors will offer an overview of the most interesting independent productions from its current focus region. For the Open Doors Screenings, this year's focus will be on film from South American continent, with 18 long, medium and short films, of which one is a world premiere:
= Histoire(s) du Cinéma
=Unprecedented perspectives on movie history with 18 films, including prestigious restored titles, valuable rediscoveries and works that have become part of the collective imagination:
= Retrospettiva
=“Espectáculo a diario – Las distintas temporadas del cine popular mexicano” (“Spectacle Every Day – The Many Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema”) will offer an intensive investigation of Mexican filmmaking from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, covering decades hallmarked by astonishing creativity and peppered with stars of the silver screen and one-of-a-kind directors who were an inspiration for generations. This year's Retrospective is curated by Olaf Möller, in collaboration with Roberto Turigliatto. A collection of essays in Spanish and English to accompany the event, curated by Jorge Javier Negrete Camacho and Alonso Díaz de la Vega, will be published by Les éditions de l’Œil:
= Locarno Kids: Screenings
=A rite of passage into the movies, with 8 titles for children and teenagers, featuring exclusive premieres, golden oldies, and forays into the world of animation:
Independent Sections
= International Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique)
=Founded in 1990, the Semaine de la Critique is an independent section within the Locarno Film Festival organized by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists. This year's Locarno's Critics’ Week features 7 full-length documentaries as world or international premieres:
= Panorama Suisse
=A selection of titles representing the state of the art in Swiss cinema, chosen by representatives from SWISS FILMS, the Solothurner Filmtage and the Swiss Film Academy, Panorama Suisse presents 10 current Swiss films such as festival successes, audience favorites and films that have not yet been released in theaters. Film lovers from all over the world have the opportunity to discover current Swiss filmmaking in its own dedicated section at the Locarno Festival.:
Special Awards
= Leopard of Honour (Pardo d’Onore Manor)
=Harmony Korine
= Premio Raimondo Rezzonico
=Marianne Slot
= Excellence Award Davide Campari
=Riz Ahmed
Official Awards
= Concorso Internazionale - Main Competition
=Golden Leopard (Pardo d'oro): Critical Zone by Ali Ahmadzadeh
Special Jury Prize: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World by Radu Jude
Pardo for Best Direction: Stepne by Maryna Vroda
Pardo for Best Performance:
Dimitra Vlagopoulou for Animal
Renée Soutendijk for Sweet Dreams
Special Mention: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere by Sylvain George
= Concorso Cineasti del presente (Filmmakers of the Present Competition)
=Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Dreaming & Dying by Nelson Yeo
Best Emerging Director: Katharina Huber for A Good Place
Special Jury Prize CINÉ+: Camping du Lac by Éléonore Saintagnan
Pardo for Best Performance
Clara Schwinning for A Good Place
Isold Halldórudóttir and Stavros Zafeiris for Touched
Special Mentions:
Excursion by Una Gunjak
Negu hurbilak by Colectivo Negu
References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 76th Locarno Film Festival
- Locarno Film Festival
- Topakk
- The Vanishing Soldier
- Animal (2023 Greek film)
- Excursion (film)
- Critical Zone
- 77th Locarno Film Festival
- Sweet Dreams (2023 film)
- Yannick (film)
