Locarno 2023: Awards

All the awards given at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival.
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Critical Zone (Ali Ahmadzadeh, 2023).

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

(Jury: Lambert Wilson, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Lesli Klainberg, Charlotte Wells, Matthijs Wouter Knol)

Golden Leopard: Critical Zone (Ali Ahmadzadeh)

Special Jury Prize: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)

Best Direction: Stepne (Maryna Vroda)

Best Performance: Dimitra Vlagopoulou (Animal)

Best Performance: Renée Soutendijk (Sweet Dreams)

Special Mention: Nuit Obscure - Au Revoir Ici, N'importe Où (Sylvain George)

FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT

(Jury: Beatrice Fiorentino, Erige Sehiri, Helena Wittmann)

Golden Leopard: Dreaming & Dying (Nelson Yeo)

Best Emerging Director: Katharina Huber (A Good Place)

Special Jury Prize: Camping Du Lac (Éléonore Saintagnan)

Best Performance: Clara Schwinning (A Good Place)

Best Performance: Isold Halldórudóttir and Stavros Zafeiris (Touched)

Special Mentions: Excursions (Una Gunjak), Negu Hurbilak (Colective Negu)

FIRST FEATURE

(Jury: Omar El Zohairy, Devika Girish, Isabel Sandoval)

First Feature Award: Dreaming & Dying (Nelson Yeo)

PARDI DI DOMANI

(Jury: Ewa Puszczyńska, Matthew Rankin, Amos Sussigan)

Best Auteur Short Film: The Passing (Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan)

Special Mention: Been There (Corina Schwingruber Ilić)

CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

Best International Short Film: A Study of Empathy (Hilke Rönnfeldt)

D’argento Award: Paradise Europe (Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes)

Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering: Making Babies (Eric K. Boulianne)

Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award: The Guard (Amirhossein Shojaei)

Special Mention: The Lovers (Carolina Sandvik)

CONCORSO NAZIONALE

Best Swiss Short Film: Last Night (Lea Bloch)

d’argento Award: Night Shift (Kayije Kagame, Hugo Radi)

Best Swiss Newcomer Award: Last Night (Lea Bloch)

Verde Ricola Award: Guardians of the Formula (Dragan Bjelogrlić)

Special Mentions: Procida (Procida Film Atelier) , Valley Pride (Lukas Marxt)

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