Locarno75 Pardo d’oro goes to Regra 34

Since August 3, the entire city of Locarno has been in full celebratory mode, on the Piazza Grande as well as in the theaters, where the electrifying participation of viewers gave a tangible sign of the renewed desire to congregate in person. Among 226 scheduled films and 471 screenings, this year’s edition brought together the past and the future of cinema: a retrospective dedicated to Douglas Sirk, distinguished prizes awarded to veterans such as Costa-Gavras and to shining young talent such as Daisy Edgar-Jones, as well as to the poetic animation of Gitanjali Rao, joined on stage by the young participants of the Atelier du Futur, and lastly to projects focused on multidisciplinary and new media. The opening with Bullet Train and the closing with Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit. establish the Piazza Grande as a privileged venue for screenings of major national and international premieres.

Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of Locarno Film Festival: “This is an important Pardo d’oro for Brazilian cinema, a nation that has written milestone pages in the history of world cinema. This national cinema stands at the forefront of defending an idea of a more inclusive and free world. Regra 34 brings Brazilian cinema back to the anarchic glories of ‘cinema marginal’, a bold and political work that will surely leave behind an important legacy. The body is political.”

Concorso internazionale

• Pardo d’oro, Grand Prize of the Festival of the City of Locarno to the best film
  REGRA 34 (RULE 34) by Julia Murat, Brazil/France

• Special Jury Prize of the Cities of Ascona and Losone
  GIGI LA LEGGE by Alessandro Comodin, Italy/France/Belgium

• Pardo for Best Direction of the City and Region of Locarno for the best directed film
  Valentina Maurel for TENGO SUEÑOS ELÉCTRICOS, Belgium/France/Costa Rica

• Pardo for Best Actress
  Daniela Marín Navarro for TENGO SUEÑOS ELÉCTRICOS by Valentina Maurel, Belgium/France/Costa Rica

• Pardo for Best Actor
  Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez for TENGO SUEÑOS ELÉCTRICOS by Valentina Maurel, Belgium/France/Costa Rica

Concorso Cineasti del presente

• Pardo d’oro Concorso Cineasti del presente to the best film
  SVETLONOC (NIGHTSIREN) by Tereza Nvotová, Slovakia/Czech Republic

• Best Emerging Director Award of the City and Region of Locarno
  Juraj Lerotić for SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE), Croatia

• Special Jury Prize Ciné+
  YAK TAM KATIA? (HOW IS KATIA?) by Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine

• Pardo for Best Actress
  Anastasia Karpenko for YAK TAM KATIA? (HOW IS KATIA?) by Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine

• Pardo for Best Actor
  Goran Marković for SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE) by Juraj Lerotić, Croatia

• Special Mention
  DEN SISTE VÅREN (SISTER, WHAT GROWS WHERE LAND IS SICK?) by Franciska Eliassen, Norway

First Feature

• Swatch First Feature Award
  SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE) by Juraj Lerotić, Croatia

• Special Mentions
  LOVE DOG by Bianca Lucas, Poland/Mexico/USA
  DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS by Valentin Merz, Switzerland

Pardi di domani

Concorso Corti d’autore

• Pardino d’oro Swiss Life per il miglior cortometraggio d’autore
  BIG BANG di Carlos Segundo, Francia/Brasile

Concorso internazionale

• Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film
  SOBERANE (SOVEREIGN) by Wara, Cuba

• Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition
  BUURMAN ABDI (NEIGHBOUR ABDI) by Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands

• Pardi di domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering
  HARDLY WORKING by Total Refusal, Austria

• Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
  MULIKA by Maisha Maene, Democratic Republic of Congo

• Special Mention
  MADAR TAMAME ROOZ DOA MIKHANAD (MOTHER PRAYS ALL DAY LONG) by Hoda Taheri, Germany

• Short Film candidate of the Locarno Film Festival for the European Film Awards
  BUURMAN ABDI (NEIGHBOUR ABDI) by Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands

Concorso nazionale

• Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Swiss Short Film
  EURIDICE, EURIDICE by Lora Mure-Ravaud, Switzerland/France

• Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition
  DER MOLCHKONGRESS by Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser, Switzerland

• Best Swiss Newcomer Award
  HEARTBEAT by Michèle Flury, Switzerland

Pardo Verde WWF

• Pardo Verde WWF
  MATTER OUT OF PLACE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria

• Special Mentions
  É NOITE NA AMÉRICA (IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA) by Ana Vaz, Italy/France/Brazil
  BALIQLARA XÜTBƏ (SERMON TO THE FISH) by Hilal Baydarov, Azerbaijan/Mexico/Switzerland/ Türkiye

The complete PDF list is available here.

The evening at Piazza Grande will be wrapped up with the presentation of the Variety Piazza Grande Award and Prix du Public UBS winners and the screening of the closing film Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit. by André Schäfer.

Images of the Palmarès are available at the following link.

The 76th Locarno Film Festival will be held from August 2 to 12, 2023.