Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro, Grand Prize of the Festival of the City of Locarno to the best film
SEPERTI DENDAM, RINDU HARUS DIBAYAR TUNTAS (VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH) by Edwin, Indonesia / Singapore / Germany
Special Jury Prize of the Cities of Ascona and Losone
JIAO MA TANG HUI (A NEW OLD PLAY) by QIU Jiongjiong, Hong Kong / France
Pardo for Best Direction of the City and Region of Locarno for the best directed film
Abel Ferrara for ZEROS AND ONES, Germany / United Kingdom / United States
Pardo for Best Actress
Anastasiya Krasovskaya for GERDA by Natalya Kudryashova, Russia
Pardo for Best Actor
Mohamed Mellali and Valero Escolar for SIS DIES CORRENTS (THE ODD-JOB MEN) by Neus Ballús, Spain
Special Mentions SOUL OF A BEAST by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland
ESPÍRITU SAGRADO by Chema García Ibarra, Spain / France / Turkey
Concorso Cineasti del presente
Pardo d’oro Concorso Cineasti del presente to the best film
BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner, Czech Republic / Italy
Best Emerging Director Award of the City and Region of Locarno
Hleb Papou for IL LEGIONARIO, Italy / France
Special Jury Prize Ciné+
L’ÉTÉ L’ÉTERNITÉ by Émilie Aussel, France
Pardo for Best Actress
Saskia Rosendahl for NIEMAND IST BEI DEN KÄLBERN by Sabrina Sarabi, Germany
Pardo for Best Actor
Gia Agumava for WET SAND by Elene Naveriani, Switzerland / Georgia
First Feature
Swatch First Feature Award
SHE WILL by Charlotte Colbert, United Kingdom
Special Mention
AGIA EMI (HOLY EMY) by Araceli Lemos, Greece / France / United States
Pardi di domani
Concorso Corti d’autore
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short
CRIATURA (CREATURE) by María Silvia Esteve, Argentina / Switzerland
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film
FANTASMA NEON (NEON PHANTOM) by Leonardo Martinelli, Brazil
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition
LES DÉMONS DE DOROTHY (THE DEMONS OF DOROTHY) by Alexis Langlois, France
Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize – BONALUMI Engineering
Eliane Esther Bots for IN FLOW OF WORDS, Netherlands
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
IMUHIRA (HOME) by Myriam Uwiragiye Birara, Ruanda
Special Mention
FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] by Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany
Short Film candidate of the Locarno Film Festival for the European Film Awards
IN FLOW OF WORDS by Eliane Esther Bots, Netherlands
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Swiss Short Film
CHUTE (STRANGERS) by Nora Longatti, Switzerland
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition
AFTER A ROOM by Naomi Pacifique, United Kingdom / Netherlands / Switzerland
Best Swiss Newcomer Award
Flavio Luca Marano and Jumana Issa for ES MUSS (IT MUST), Switzerland
Concorso internazionale
The jury
The official jury of the 74th Locarno Film Festival, composed of:
President: Eliza Hittman, filmmaker (United States) Kevin Jerome Everson, artist and filmmaker (United States)
Isabella Ferrari, actress (Italy) Philippe Lacôte, director (Ivory Coast) Leonor Silveira, actress (Portugal)
awarded the following prizes:
Pardo d’oro
Grand Prize of the Festival of the City of Locarno to the best film: CHF 75,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer:
SEPERTI DENDAM, RINDU HARUS DIBAYAR TUNTAS (VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH) by Edwin, Indonesia / Singapore / Germany
Special Jury Prize of the Cities of Ascona and Losone: CHF 30,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer:
JIAO MA TANG HUI (A NEW OLD PLAY) by QIU Jiongjiong, Hong Kong / France
Pardo for Best Direction of the City and Region of Locarno for the best directed film: CHF 20,000 to the director:
Abel Ferrara
for ZEROS AND ONES, Germany / United Kingdom / United States
Pardo for Best Actress to the actress: Anastasiya Krasovskaya
for GERDA by Natalya Kudryashova, Russia
Pardo for Best Actor to the actors: Mohamed Mellali and Valero Escolar
for SIS DIES CORRENTS (THE ODD-JOB MEN) by Neus Ballús, Spain
Special Mentions
SOUL OF A BEAST by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland
ESPÍRITU SAGRADO by Chema García Ibarra, Spain / France / Turkey
Concorso Cineasti del presente
The jury
Agathe Bonitzer, actress (France) Mattie Do, director (United States, Laos) Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director (Croatia) awarded the following prizes:
Pardo d’oro Concorso Cineasti del presente to the best film: CHF 35,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer:
BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner, Czech Republic / Italy
Best Emerging Director Award of the City and Region of Locarno: CHF 20,000 to the director:
Hleb Papou for IL LEGIONARIO, Italy / France
Special Jury Prize Ciné+
A promotional campaign to the value of CHF 25,000 on Ciné+ channels at the time of its theatrical release in France:
L’ÉTÉ L’ÉTERNITÉ by Émilie Aussel, France
Pardo for Best Actress
to the actress: Saskia Rosendahl for NIEMAND IST BEI DEN KÄLBERN by Sabrina Sarabi, Germany
Pardo for Best Actor
to the actor: Gia Agumava for WET SAND by Elene Naveriani, Switzerland / Georgia
First Feature
The jury Amjad Abu Alala, director and producer (Sudan) Karina Ressler, filmmaker (Austria)
Katharina Wyss, filmmaker (Switzerland) awarded the following prizes:
Swatch First Feature Award
CHF 15,000 to the director awarded for the Best First Feature Film presented as international or world première in all Festival sections, except for the independent sections Semaine de la Critique and Panorama Suisse, to:
SHE WILL by Charlotte Colbert, United Kingdom
Special Mention
AGIA EMI (HOLY EMY) by Araceli Lemos, Greece / France / United States
Pardi di domani
The jury
Kamal Aljafari, filmmaker and artist (Palestine) Marie-Pierre Macia, producer (France) Adina Pintilie, filmmaker, artist and curator (Romania) awarded the following prizes:
Concorso Corti d’autore
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short
CRIATURA (CREATURE) by María Silvia Esteve, Argentina / Switzerland
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film
worth CHF 10,000 to:
FANTASMA NEON (NEON PHANTOM) by Leonardo Martinelli, Brazil
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition
worth CHF 5,000 to:
LES DÉMONS DE DOROTHY (THE DEMONS OF DOROTHY) by Alexis Langlois, France
Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize – BONALUMI Engineering
worth CHF 2,000, offered by BONALUMI Engineering to:
Eliane Esther Bots for IN FLOW OF WORDS, Netherlands
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
sponsored by Medien Patent Verwaltung AG, in the form of subtitling in three central European languages, to:
IMUHIRA (HOME) by Myriam Uwiragiye Birara, Ruanda
Special Mention
FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] by Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany
Short Film candidate of the Locarno Film Festival for the European Film Awards
IN FLOW OF WORDS by Eliane Esther Bots, Netherlands
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Swiss Short Film worth CHF 10,000 to:
CHUTE (STRANGERS) by Nora Longatti, Switzerland
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition
worth CHF 5,000 to: AFTER A ROOM by Naomi Pacifique, United Kingdom / Netherlands / Switzerland
Best Swiss Newcomer Award which provides equipment and services offered by Cinegrell, Freestudios, Taurus Studio to:
Flavio Luca Marano and Jumana Issa for ES MUSS (IT MUST), Switzerland
Independent Juries and Awards
Ecumenical Prize
The jury
Pascale Huber (Switzerland) Anne Le Cor (France) Eva Meienberg (Switzerland) S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate (United States) awarded its prize to the value of CHF 20,000, offered by the Reformed Church and the Catholic Church of Switzerland and committed for the film’s distribution of the movie in Switzerland, to:
SOUL OF A BEAST by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland
FIPRESCI Prize
(International Federation of Film Critics)
The jury
Selina Hangartner (Switzerland) José Luis Losa Garcia (Spain) Leo Soesanto (France ) warded the International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) to:
AFTER BLUE (PARADIS SALE) by Bertrand Mandico, France
Europa Cinemas Label
The jury
Züleyha Azman (Netherlands) Paola Corti (Italy) Eglè Maceinaitè (Lithuania) Cristina Mota (Portugal)
has awarded the Europa Cinemas Label, intended to enhance the circulation of a European film chosen amongst those of the Concorso internazionale and the Concorso Cineasti del presente on the screens of the Europa Cinemas Association, to:
SIS DIES CORRENTS (THE ODD-JOB MEN) by Neus Ballús, Spain
Junior Jury Awards
The jury members are selected from the participants in the Cinema & Gioventù initiative, organized by Bellinzona’s Castellinaria, Festival del cinema giovane on behalf of the Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello sport (DECS) of the Canton Ticino. Pietro Camussi, Ella Cattaneo, Kiryl Hramadka, Anna Lenzin, Alice Marcucci, Burapha Pedrolini, Gianluca Pellegrini, Ivan Sokolov, Lucrezia Tironi, awarded the following prizes to the three best directors in the Concorso internazionale:
First Prize (CHF 6,000)
NEBESA (HEAVENS ABOVE) by Srđan Dragojević, Serbia / Germany / North Macedonia / Slovenia / Croatia / Montenegro / Bosnia-Herzegovina
Second Prize (CHF 4,000)
JIAO MA TANG HUI (A NEW OLD PLAY) by QIU Jiongjiong, Hong Kong / France
Third Prize (CHF 2,000)
MEDEA by Alexander Zeldovich, Russia
Special Mention: SIS DIES CORRENTS (THE ODD-JOB MEN) by Neus Ballús, Spain
«Environment is quality of life» Prize (CHF 3,000)
offered by the Dipartimento cantonale del territorio to:
GERDA by Natalya Kudryashova, Russia
A second jury, composed of Gaia Antonini, Brian Aubert, Leonardo Bertazzo, Emma Castelnovo, Greta Krebs, Nora Liedtke, Giulia Maspero, Vasco Menichelli, Tommaso Mosca Mondadori, Susanna Scagliotti, Massimo Travaglioni, assigned a prize of CHF 2,000 to the best film shown in the section Concorso Cineasti del presente, to:
KUN MAUPAY MAN IT PANAHON (WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE) by Carlo Francisco Manatad, Philippines / France / Singapore / Indonesia / Germany / Qatar
A third jury, composed of Martino Babandi, Giovanni Bonzanino, Lea Charnaux, Lydia Cuda, Bianca Delbasso, Manuel Gobet, Apolline Jouve, Neva Kammermann, Oleksandr Klymyuk, Zoé Loetscher, Lisa Mouquin, awarded the following two prizes, worth CHF 1,500, to the best short films in the Concorso internazionale and in the Concorso nazionale of the Pardi di domani section and in the section Open Doors Shorts, to:
Pardi di domani
Best International Short Film
LES DÉMONS DE DOROTHY (THE DEMONS OF DOROTHY) by Alexis Langlois, France
Best Swiss Short Film
DIHYA by Lucia Martinez Garcia, Switzerland
Special Mentions
STEAKHOUSE by Špela Čadez, Slovenia / Germany / France
CAVALES (DREAM RACING) by Juliette Riccaboni, Switzerland
Open Doors Shorts
Junior Jury Prize
SIDE BY SIDE by Polen Ly, Cambodia
Special Mention
DEAR TO ME by Monica Vanesa Tedja, Germany / Indonesia
Grand Prix Semaine de la critique – Prix SRG SSR, Premio Zonta Club Locarno and Marco Zucchi Award
The jury Jolanta Drzewiecka (Poland) Nicole Reinhard (Switzerland) Antonio Prata (Switzerland)
awarded the following prizes:
Grand Prix Semaine de la critique – Prix SRG SSR worth CHF 5,000 to:
FILM BALKONOWY (THE BALCONY MOVIE) by Pawel Lozinksi, Poland
Premio Zonta Club Locarno worth CHF 2,000 to the film which promotes better justice and social ethics, to:
HOW TO KILL A CLOUD by Tuija Halttunen, Finland / Denmark
And for the first time, the Marco Zucchi Award worth CHF 2’000 to the most innovative film in terms of image and cinematic language, to:
A THOUSAND FIRES by Saeed Taji Farouki, France / Switzerland / Netherlands / Palestine
Residency Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur @ Villa Sträuli
The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, in collaboration with the Villa Sträuli and the Locarno Film Festival, will be offering a two-month residency, accepting applications from the winners amongst those of Open Doors, Pardi di domani and the Filmmakers Academy who are coming from Africa, Asia, Eastern
Europe and Latin America.
Leonardo Martinelli for FANTASMA NEON (NEON PHANTOM), Brazil (Pardi di domani)
