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Wrapping up 11 days of celebration, numerous special initiatives, and extraordinary participation by the audience, the festival is reaching its conclusion with the Pardo d’oro being awarded to Julia Murat’s Regra 34 (Rule 34), which will be presented on the Piazza Grande during tonight’s closing ceremony.
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.”
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
Swatch First Feature Award
SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE) by Juraj Lerotić, Croatia
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
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 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.