A Land Imagined director YEO Siew Hua
Below you will find the awards for the 71st Locarno Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
AWARDS
International Competition
Golden Leopard: A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua)
Special Jury Prize: M (Yolande Zauberman)
Special Mention: Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
Best Direction: Dominga Sotomayor (Too Late to Die Young)
Best Actress: Andra Guti (Alice T.)
Best Actor: Ki Joobong (Hotel By the River)
Filmmakers of the Present
Golden Leopard: Chaos (Sara Fattahi)
Special Jury Prize: Closing Time (Nicole Vögele)
Prize for Best Emerging Director: Tarik Aktas (Dead Horse Nebula)
Special Mention: Fausto (Andrea Bussmann)
Rose in Matthieu Bareyre's L'Epoque
Signs of Life
Best Film: The Fragile House (Lin Zi)
Mantarraya Award: The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin (Benjamin Crotty)
First Feature
Best First Feature: Alles Ist Gut (Eva Trobisch)
Art Peace Hotel Award: Acid Forest (Rugile Barzdziukaite)
Special Mention: Erased, Ascent of the Invisible (Ghassan Halwani)
FESTIVAL COVERAGE
By Daniel Kasman:
Comedy Saves Humanity: The first report from the 71st Locarno Festival, including the retrospective on comic genius Leo McCarey and Ying Liang's A Family Tour.
Sterling Hayden, Jewish Comedy, "Diane": The second day of the film festival brings a revelatory documentary on Sterling Hayden, the Jewish comedy of Max Davidson, and Diane.
Patterns and Atmosphere: Dominga Sotomayor's atmospheric competitor, and Jodie Mack and Argentine actress María Alché both make their feature debuts.
Looking for Laughs After HUAC: At the festival, a grave adaptation of Sterling Hayden's anguished memoir is followed by comedies about Nicolas Chauvin and Eddie Cantor.
First Features and Good Samaritans: Feature debuts by Tarik Aktaş and photographer Richard Billingham, and a Leo McCarey film starring Gary Cooper.
The Three Heroines: On three of the best films at Locarno: Abbas Fahdel's Yara, Eva Trobisch's Alles ist gut, and Sofia Bohdanowicz's Veslemøy’s Song.
By Ross McDonnell:
Mariano Llinás's "La Flor", Part 1: The first part of Argentine director Mariano Llinás's three-part, eight-act, 14-hour epic proves a promising pulp anomaly.
Mariano Llinás's "La Flor", Part 2: The second part—342 minutes long—of Mariano Llinás’s ever-expanding and increasingly gregarious epic is a spy-themed comedy caper.
Mariano Llinás's "La Flor", Part 3: Mariano Llinás's 14-hour epic draws to a close with its final three episodes—but may in fact stretch to infinity.
By Josh Slater-Williams
Interfaces and Headspaces: Two films at the Locarno Festival tell their tales as if we're watching a computer screen's curated presentation of reality.
By Flavia Dima
Who's Afraid of Smartphones?: Three films—all directed by men—at the festival reveal an aversion towards how women are specifically interacting with social media.
INTERVIEWS
Unraveling a Family Mystery: María Alché Discusses Her Feature Debut
by Gustavo Beck
Between a Film Diary and a Film Exorcism
by Gustavo Beck
Looking Through the Shadows: Andrea Bussmann Discusses Fausto
by Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal
Queen Bee: Jodie Mack in Locarno
by Christopher Small
Waiting For the Hidden One: Eugène Green Discusses How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
by Daniel Witkin
Spirit of Change: Dominga Sotomayor Talks Too Late to Die Young
by Christopher Small
From the Dirt to the Gods: Virgil Vernier Discusses Sophia Antipolis
by Ross McDonnell