28 projects selected from over 150 submissions.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
- 10/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Upcoming animation from ’My Life As A Courgette’ director Claude Barras also among recipients.
Berlin Golden Bear winner Radu Jude’s upcoming feature A Case History is one of 24 features to receive a share of €6.5m (6.87m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Romania and Croatia, has received €150,000 and marks the Romanian filmmaker’s next feature after winning the Golden Bear in 2021 with Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn.
Produced by Ada Solomon and Adrian Sitaru of Bucharest-based 4Proof Film, the story will be told in two parts. The first follows a...
Berlin Golden Bear winner Radu Jude’s upcoming feature A Case History is one of 24 features to receive a share of €6.5m (6.87m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Romania and Croatia, has received €150,000 and marks the Romanian filmmaker’s next feature after winning the Golden Bear in 2021 with Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn.
Produced by Ada Solomon and Adrian Sitaru of Bucharest-based 4Proof Film, the story will be told in two parts. The first follows a...
- 6/27/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Flesh Out Photo: Courtesy of Berlin Film Festival/Vivo Film
Made In Italy notches up its first decade when it returns to London from March 4 to 9, opening with Ginevra Elkann’s If Only, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Alba Rohrwacher, about three kids sent unexpectedly to live with their unconventional dad.
The line-up features new work, including Michelle Occhipinti's Flesh Out, which considers the gruelling process of gavage - fattening up for a wedding - in Mauritania, and Federico Bondi Dafne, which sees a Down syndrome woman holding her family together in the face of adversity.
There will also be a retrospective screenign of Liliana Cavani’s psychological thriller The Night Porter, starring Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde.
Elkann, Scamarcio, Occhippinti and Bondi will be among those attending and taking part in Q&As.
Details of venues and times are available from the official site.
The full list of films screening...
Made In Italy notches up its first decade when it returns to London from March 4 to 9, opening with Ginevra Elkann’s If Only, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Alba Rohrwacher, about three kids sent unexpectedly to live with their unconventional dad.
The line-up features new work, including Michelle Occhipinti's Flesh Out, which considers the gruelling process of gavage - fattening up for a wedding - in Mauritania, and Federico Bondi Dafne, which sees a Down syndrome woman holding her family together in the face of adversity.
There will also be a retrospective screenign of Liliana Cavani’s psychological thriller The Night Porter, starring Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde.
Elkann, Scamarcio, Occhippinti and Bondi will be among those attending and taking part in Q&As.
Details of venues and times are available from the official site.
The full list of films screening...
- 2/21/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov win the Golden Atlas. The Silver Atlas goes to Marko Skop for Let There Be Light and the Audience Award goes to Federico Bondi’s Dafne. The competition jury of the 20th Arras Film Festival, chaired by French filmmaker Thierry Klifa, has bestowed the Golden Atlas - Grand Jury Prize upon The Father by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. Already crowned Best Film at Karlovy Vary and screened in Toronto, the third feature from the Bulgarian duo, after The Lesson and Glory, has also won in Arras the Critics’ Award and the Youth Jury Award. Written by the two directors with their usual partner Decho Taralezkov, the tender and hilarious film recounts the misadventures of a son (Ivan Barnev) trying his best to desperately contain the whims of his father (Ivan Savov) following the death of his mother. Produced by Bulgarian company Abraxas and co-produced by.
- 11/18/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
It includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory and Little Joe.
The 46 films recommended for nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards have been announced.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The selection includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Little Joe.
The films were selected by a committee consisting of the Efa board and experts Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer), Paz Lazaro (festival programmer), Mary Nazari (exhibitor), Edvinas...
The 46 films recommended for nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards have been announced.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The selection includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Little Joe.
The films were selected by a committee consisting of the Efa board and experts Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer), Paz Lazaro (festival programmer), Mary Nazari (exhibitor), Edvinas...
- 8/20/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
It includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory and Little Joe.
The 46 films recommended for nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards have been announced.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The selection includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Little Joe.
The films were selected by a committee consisting of the Efa board and experts Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer), Paz Lazaro (festival programmer), Mary Nazari (exhibitor), Edvinas...
The 46 films recommended for nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards have been announced.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The selection includes Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes prize winners Les Miserables, Young Ahmed, Pain And Glory, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Little Joe.
The films were selected by a committee consisting of the Efa board and experts Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer), Paz Lazaro (festival programmer), Mary Nazari (exhibitor), Edvinas...
- 8/20/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
"It's a sea port here. People come, people go." Watch a trailer for an indie drama titled Dafne, which first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year to excellent reviews. Made by Italian filmmaker Federico Bondi, the film is about a young woman named Dafne, played by Carolina Raspanti. Dafne is a self-aware and bright young woman with Down syndrome. When her mother dies, she has to attend to her father too, on top of attempting to process her own grief. The small cast also includes Stefania Casini and Antonio Piovanelli. One review from Berlinale earlier this year praises its maturity: "Dafne knows how to capture the individualism, absurdity, and staying power of grief without veering into soppiness." From this trailer, it seems to be an endearing, empowering film that we should be paying more attention to. Have a look below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Federico Bondi's Dafne,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Fipresci, the association of international film critics, have awarded their two top honors for the best films at this year's Berlin International Film Festival to Nadav Lapid's Synonymes and Federico Bondi's Dafne.
Synonymes, the story of a former Idf soldier who flees to Paris and tries to escape his past, featured a volatile, but potentially star-making performance from lead Tom Mercier. The film took the Fipresci prize for the best title in competition at the 69th Berlinale.
The jury called Lapid's third feature “startlingly original, shaking the boundaries of narrations, through a complex character, the movie entangles different ...
Synonymes, the story of a former Idf soldier who flees to Paris and tries to escape his past, featured a volatile, but potentially star-making performance from lead Tom Mercier. The film took the Fipresci prize for the best title in competition at the 69th Berlinale.
The jury called Lapid's third feature “startlingly original, shaking the boundaries of narrations, through a complex character, the movie entangles different ...
- 2/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fipresci, the association of international film critics, have awarded their two top honors for the best films at this year's Berlin International Film Festival to Nadav Lapid's Synonymes and Federico Bondi's Dafne.
Synonymes, the story of a former Idf soldier who flees to Paris and tries to escape his past, featured a volatile, but potentially star-making performance from lead Tom Mercier. The film took the Fipresci prize for the best title in competition at the 69th Berlinale.
The jury called Lapid's third feature “startlingly original, shaking the boundaries of narrations, through a complex character, the movie entangles different ...
Synonymes, the story of a former Idf soldier who flees to Paris and tries to escape his past, featured a volatile, but potentially star-making performance from lead Tom Mercier. The film took the Fipresci prize for the best title in competition at the 69th Berlinale.
The jury called Lapid's third feature “startlingly original, shaking the boundaries of narrations, through a complex character, the movie entangles different ...
- 2/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Rai Com is kicking off sales in Berlin on Italian producer Ginevra Elkann’s directorial debut, “Magari” (If Only), which stars Brett Gelman (“Fleabag”), Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”), Riccardo Scamarcio (“Loro”) and France’s Céline Sallette (“Les Revenants”).
The multi-language pic is currently shooting in the seaside town of Sabaudia, outside Rome.
Produced by Wildside and Rai Cinema, “Magari” is a sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents who, while living in Paris with their bourgeois Russian-Orthodox mother, are suddenly packed off and sent to stay with their unconventional and broke Italian father, Carlo.
Elkann wrote the screenplay with writer Chiara Barzini, author of English-language novel “Things That Happened Before the Earthquake.”
Elkann previously directed the short “Vado a Messa,” which screened at Venice. As a producer she’s shepherded several standout festival titles, including Noaz Deshe’s Swahili-language drama “White Shadow,” which won the 2013 Venice Film Festival’s Lion of the Future.
The multi-language pic is currently shooting in the seaside town of Sabaudia, outside Rome.
Produced by Wildside and Rai Cinema, “Magari” is a sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents who, while living in Paris with their bourgeois Russian-Orthodox mother, are suddenly packed off and sent to stay with their unconventional and broke Italian father, Carlo.
Elkann wrote the screenplay with writer Chiara Barzini, author of English-language novel “Things That Happened Before the Earthquake.”
Elkann previously directed the short “Vado a Messa,” which screened at Venice. As a producer she’s shepherded several standout festival titles, including Noaz Deshe’s Swahili-language drama “White Shadow,” which won the 2013 Venice Film Festival’s Lion of the Future.
- 2/8/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...
- 1/2/2019
- MUBI
22 films in the Panorama programme so far, with nine directorial debuts.
The first 22 titles from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The European premiere of UK director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Tilda Swinton, her daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke, and the world premiere of Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money are among the titles confirmed today.
The line-up also includes the directing debuts of actors Jonah Hill (Mid90s) and Alexander Gorchilin (Acid), and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,...
The first 22 titles from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The European premiere of UK director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Tilda Swinton, her daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke, and the world premiere of Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money are among the titles confirmed today.
The line-up also includes the directing debuts of actors Jonah Hill (Mid90s) and Alexander Gorchilin (Acid), and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed a large selection of movies for its Panorama strand. Section head Paz Lázaro and co-curator and programme manager Michael Stütz have revealed 22 titles, 14 of which will be world premieres.
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, “mid90s,” about a 13-year-old skateboarder’s coming of age, and a documentary on influential film critic Pauline Kael are among the works that will screen in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
Vivo Film, Italian indie known for recent standout titles such as “Nico, 1988” and “Daughter of Mine,” has boarded Abel Ferrara’s long-gestating “Siberia” as its main producer.
The Rome-based shingle headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa also has several pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline including “Dafne,” a drama centered around a young woman who suffers from Down syndrome which will start shooting in Tuscany in June.
Ferrara announced “Siberia” in Cannes three years ago calling it an exploration of the language of dreams and a vehicle for Willem Dafoe. It’s about the introspective voyage of a man who lives in an isolated cabin on a snow-capped mountain. Since then “Siberia” long languished, but Vivo Film has teamed up with German producer Philipp Kreuzer’s Maze Pictures to co-produce the pic and The Match Factory has taken world sales. They are also in talks with Sundance...
The Rome-based shingle headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa also has several pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline including “Dafne,” a drama centered around a young woman who suffers from Down syndrome which will start shooting in Tuscany in June.
Ferrara announced “Siberia” in Cannes three years ago calling it an exploration of the language of dreams and a vehicle for Willem Dafoe. It’s about the introspective voyage of a man who lives in an isolated cabin on a snow-capped mountain. Since then “Siberia” long languished, but Vivo Film has teamed up with German producer Philipp Kreuzer’s Maze Pictures to co-produce the pic and The Match Factory has taken world sales. They are also in talks with Sundance...
- 5/21/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Paolo Sorrentino to receive Starz Denver Film Festival 2013 honor Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will receive the fifth Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award at the 2013 Starz Denver Film Festival. Sorrentino will be handed his award prior to the screening of The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza on November 16, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. at the Sie FilmCenter. Sponsored by the Anna & John J. Sie Foundation, the award, which "recognizes the best in contemporary Italian cinema," includes a $10,000 honorarium. Previous recipients of the Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award are Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Massimo Natale, Gianni Di Gregorio, and Federico Bondi. ‘The Great Beauty’ The Starz Denver Film Festival press release describes Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty — clearly influenced by Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita — as follows: Populated by the debauched, disenchanted or simply disinterested elite of Roman society, Sorrentino’s latter-day Babylon revolves around Jep Gambardella...
- 10/30/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
The Italian Film Festival, Scotland
No gimmicks here – just the chance to see some world-class Italian films from directors old and new. From veteran Enzo Castellari, director of the original Inglourious Basterds, comes Eagles Over London, the film that invented the "macaroni combat" genre by dazzlingly recreating the Battle Of Britain. There's also a four-film tribute to legendary actor Vittorio Gassman – Il Mattatore, as he's affectionately known – with screenings of the little-seen swashbuckler For Love And Gold and the original Scent Of A Woman, which won Gassman the Best Actor award in Cannes. More recent titles include director Federico Bondi's Mar Nero, a touching tale of the relationship between an elderly lady and her youthful carer, and Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore's dark, modern thriller The Unknown Woman. And, for the more traditional, there's a screening of everyone's favourite Italian classic, La Dolce Vita.
Various venues, Fri 16 to...
No gimmicks here – just the chance to see some world-class Italian films from directors old and new. From veteran Enzo Castellari, director of the original Inglourious Basterds, comes Eagles Over London, the film that invented the "macaroni combat" genre by dazzlingly recreating the Battle Of Britain. There's also a four-film tribute to legendary actor Vittorio Gassman – Il Mattatore, as he's affectionately known – with screenings of the little-seen swashbuckler For Love And Gold and the original Scent Of A Woman, which won Gassman the Best Actor award in Cannes. More recent titles include director Federico Bondi's Mar Nero, a touching tale of the relationship between an elderly lady and her youthful carer, and Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore's dark, modern thriller The Unknown Woman. And, for the more traditional, there's a screening of everyone's favourite Italian classic, La Dolce Vita.
Various venues, Fri 16 to...
- 4/16/2010
- by Andrea Hubert, Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2008 New Italian Cinema Events Film Festival New York edition will take place from November 13 to 17 at the Tribeca Cinemas. The traveling festival is dedicated to presenting first films by Italian directors to an international audience. The festival will open with Mar Nero (“Black Sea”) in the presence of first-time director Federico Bondi, whose protagonist Ilaria Occhini won the award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival Locarno. One of this year’s special events is the North American premiere of “Puccini and the Girl” by Paolo Benvenuti, one of Italy’s most important independent film makers. [...]...
- 10/18/2008
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
Rome -- "Parque Via," a drama from Mexican director Enrique Rivero, won the top prize at the 61st Locarno Film Festival, where threatening weather over much of the 11 days prevented the event from surpassing last year's attendance record.
Organizers said the festival attracted a total of 180,000 visitors, a 3% drop compared with last year's levels, mostly because of a 5% drop in attendance at the festival's picturesque outdoor venue the Piazza Grande, where only four of 11 screenings took place under clear skies.
The festival did report record-breaking business for its industry office, where five of 18 in-competition films signed international distribution deals.
"Parque Via," one of only four non-world premieres in the lineup, has been a success in every festival it has screened; the film previously won two awards in February at the Mexico City Film Festival. It is the first Mexican film to win Locarno's prestigious Golden Leopard Award.
It capped a noteworthy festival for Latin American film, which was the focus of Locarno's Open Doors sidebar.
Locarno's jury prize went to "33 Scenes From Life," a Germany-Poland co-production from Malgoska Szumowska. Denis Cote won the best director prize for "Elle veut le chaos." Tayanc Ayaydin ("The Market -- A Tale of Trade") and Illaria Occhini ("Mar Nero") won the best actor and actress awards, respectively.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
Golden Leopard
"Parque Via" by Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Special Jury Prize
"33 Sceny Z Zycia" (33 Scenes from Life) by Malgoska Szumowska, Germany/Poland
Best director
Denis Cote, "Elle Veut le Chaos," Canada
Leopard for best actress
Ilaria Occhini, "Mar Nero" by Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
Leopard for best actor
Tayan Ayaydin, "The Market -- A Tale of Trade" by Ben Hopkins, Germany/UK/Turkey/Kazakhstan
C.P. Company Golden Leopard
"La Forteresse" by Fernand Melgar, Switzerland
Cin? Cin?ma Special Jury Prize
"Alicia en el Pais" by Esteban Larran, Chile
Leopard for the best first feature
"Marz" by Hendl Klaus, Austria (International Competition)
Srg Ssr idee suisse Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow Competition
"Dez Elefantes" by Eva Randolph, Brazil
Eastman Kodak Company Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow
"Kaupunkilaisia" by Juho Kuosmanen, Finland
Film and video subtitling prize
"Babin" by Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan
Ikea Prize for the Leopards of Tomorrow Competition
"La Delogeuse" by Julien Rouyet, Switzerland
Eastman Kodak Company Prize Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow
"Un Dia y Nada" by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland
Action Light Prize for the best Swiss newcomer
"Au Caf? Romand" by Richard Szotyori, Switzerland
Prize Cinema e Giovent? -- Leopards of Tomorrow
"Babin" by Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan
For the Swiss National Competition
"Au Caf? Romand" by Richard Szotyori, Switzerland
Youth Jury Prize
First prize
Kirill Serebrennikov for "Yuriev Den" (Yuri’s Day), Germany/Russia
Second prize
Malgoska Szumowska for "33 Sceny Z Zycia" (33 Scenes from Lifes), Poland/Germany
Third prize
Federico Bondi for "Mar Nero," Italy
The environnement is the quality of life prize
Gideon Koppel for "Sleep Furiously," U.K.
The winner of the audience prize
"Son of Rambow" by Garth Jennings, France/Germany/U.K.
Variety Piazza Grande Award
"Back Soon" by S?lveig Anspach, Iceland/France
Netpac Prize
"Daytime Drinking" by Noh Young-Seok, South Korea
Fipresci Prize
"Parque Via" by Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Oecumenical Jury Prize
"Mar Nero" by Frederico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
Ficc / Iffs Prize
"Yuriev Den" (Yuri’s Day) by Kirill Serebrennikov, Germany/Russia
Cicae Prize
"Sonbahar" (Autum) by ?zcan Alper, Turkey/Germany
Critics Week
"Latawce" (Kites) by Beata Dzianowicz, Poland...
Organizers said the festival attracted a total of 180,000 visitors, a 3% drop compared with last year's levels, mostly because of a 5% drop in attendance at the festival's picturesque outdoor venue the Piazza Grande, where only four of 11 screenings took place under clear skies.
The festival did report record-breaking business for its industry office, where five of 18 in-competition films signed international distribution deals.
"Parque Via," one of only four non-world premieres in the lineup, has been a success in every festival it has screened; the film previously won two awards in February at the Mexico City Film Festival. It is the first Mexican film to win Locarno's prestigious Golden Leopard Award.
It capped a noteworthy festival for Latin American film, which was the focus of Locarno's Open Doors sidebar.
Locarno's jury prize went to "33 Scenes From Life," a Germany-Poland co-production from Malgoska Szumowska. Denis Cote won the best director prize for "Elle veut le chaos." Tayanc Ayaydin ("The Market -- A Tale of Trade") and Illaria Occhini ("Mar Nero") won the best actor and actress awards, respectively.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
Golden Leopard
"Parque Via" by Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Special Jury Prize
"33 Sceny Z Zycia" (33 Scenes from Life) by Malgoska Szumowska, Germany/Poland
Best director
Denis Cote, "Elle Veut le Chaos," Canada
Leopard for best actress
Ilaria Occhini, "Mar Nero" by Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
Leopard for best actor
Tayan Ayaydin, "The Market -- A Tale of Trade" by Ben Hopkins, Germany/UK/Turkey/Kazakhstan
C.P. Company Golden Leopard
"La Forteresse" by Fernand Melgar, Switzerland
Cin? Cin?ma Special Jury Prize
"Alicia en el Pais" by Esteban Larran, Chile
Leopard for the best first feature
"Marz" by Hendl Klaus, Austria (International Competition)
Srg Ssr idee suisse Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow Competition
"Dez Elefantes" by Eva Randolph, Brazil
Eastman Kodak Company Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow
"Kaupunkilaisia" by Juho Kuosmanen, Finland
Film and video subtitling prize
"Babin" by Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan
Ikea Prize for the Leopards of Tomorrow Competition
"La Delogeuse" by Julien Rouyet, Switzerland
Eastman Kodak Company Prize Prize for the International Leopard of Tomorrow
"Un Dia y Nada" by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland
Action Light Prize for the best Swiss newcomer
"Au Caf? Romand" by Richard Szotyori, Switzerland
Prize Cinema e Giovent? -- Leopards of Tomorrow
"Babin" by Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan
For the Swiss National Competition
"Au Caf? Romand" by Richard Szotyori, Switzerland
Youth Jury Prize
First prize
Kirill Serebrennikov for "Yuriev Den" (Yuri’s Day), Germany/Russia
Second prize
Malgoska Szumowska for "33 Sceny Z Zycia" (33 Scenes from Lifes), Poland/Germany
Third prize
Federico Bondi for "Mar Nero," Italy
The environnement is the quality of life prize
Gideon Koppel for "Sleep Furiously," U.K.
The winner of the audience prize
"Son of Rambow" by Garth Jennings, France/Germany/U.K.
Variety Piazza Grande Award
"Back Soon" by S?lveig Anspach, Iceland/France
Netpac Prize
"Daytime Drinking" by Noh Young-Seok, South Korea
Fipresci Prize
"Parque Via" by Enrique Rivero, Mexico
Oecumenical Jury Prize
"Mar Nero" by Frederico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
Ficc / Iffs Prize
"Yuriev Den" (Yuri’s Day) by Kirill Serebrennikov, Germany/Russia
Cicae Prize
"Sonbahar" (Autum) by ?zcan Alper, Turkey/Germany
Critics Week
"Latawce" (Kites) by Beata Dzianowicz, Poland...
- 8/17/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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