CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

THE NOMINEES

ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS by Milagros Mumenthaler – Argentina
ANOTHER EARTH by Mike Cahill – United States
BEIRUT HOTEL by Danielle Arbid – Lebanon
CRULIC – DRUMUL SPRE DINCOLO by Anca Damian – Romania
DERNIÈRE SÉANCE by Laurent Achard – France
DIN DRAGOSTE CU CELE MAI BUNE INTENTII by Adrian Sitaru – Romania
EL AÑO DEL TIGRE by Sebastián Lelio – Chile
HASHOTER by Nadav Lapid – Israel
LES CHANTS DE MANDRIN by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – France
LOW LIFE by Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval – France
MANGROVE by Frédéric Choffat and Julie Gilbert – Switzerland
ONDER ONS by Marco Van Geffen – Holland
SAUDADE by Katsuya Tomita – Japan
SETTE OPERE DI MISERICORDIA by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio – Italy
TANATHUR by Tawfik Abu Wael – Israel
TERRI by Azazel Jacobs – United States
THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Loktev – United States
TOKYO KOEN by Shinji Aoyama – Japan
UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE by Mia Hansen-Løve – France
VOL SPÉCIAL by Fernand Melgar – Switzerland

 

THE WINNERS

PARDO D’ORO
ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (BACK TO STAY) by Milagros Mumenthaler – Argentina

PARDO D’ORO SPECIALE DELLA GIURIA
TOKYO KOEN by Shinji Aoyama – Japan

PREMIO SPECIALE DELLA GIURIA
HASHOTER by Nadav Lapid – Israel

PARDO PER LA MIGLIORE REGIA (BEST DIRECTOR)
ADRIAN SITARU for DIN DRAGOSTE CU CELE MAI BUNE INTENTII – Romania, Hungary

PARDO PER LA MIGLIOR INTERPRETAZIONE FEMMINILE (BEST ACTRESS)
MARIA CANALE in ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (BACK TO STAY) by Milagros Mumenthaler – Argentina

PARDO PER LA MIGLIOR INTERPRETAZIONE MASCHILE (BEST ACTOR)
BOGDAN DUMITRACHE in DIN DRAGOSTE CU CELE MAI BUNE INTENTII (BEST INTENTIONS) by Adrian Sitaru – Romania, Hungary

SPECIAL MENTION
UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE (GOODBYE FIRST LOVE) by Mia Hansen-Løve – France, Germany

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CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE

FILMAKERS OF THE PRESENT COMPETITION

THE NOMINEES

É NA TERRA NÃO É NA LUA by Gonçalo Tocha – Portugal
EL ÁRBOL DE LAS FRESAS by Simone Rapisarda Casanova – Canada
EL ESTUDIANTE by Santiago Mitre – Argentina
HANAAN by Ruslan Pak – South Korea
HELLO! SHU XIAN SHENG by Jie Han – China
L’ESTATE DI GIACOMO by Alessandro Comodin – Italy
NANA by Valérie Massadian – France
PAPIROSEN by Gaston Solnicki – Argentina
SEÑORITA by Vincent Sandoval – Phillippines
SOLNETCHNIYE DNI by Nariman Turebayev – Kazakhstan
TAI YANG ZONG ZAI ZUO BIAN by Sonthar Gyal – China
THE COLOR WHEEL by Alex Ross Perry – United States
THE SUBSTANCE – ALBERT HOFMANN’S LSD by Martin Witz – Switzerland
WITHOUT by Mark Jackson – United States

 

THE WINNERS

PARDO D’ORO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE – PREMIO GEORGE FOUNDATION
L’ESTATE DI GIACOMO by Alessandro Comodin – Italy

PREMIO SPECIALE DELLA GIURIA CINÉ+ CINEASTI DELPRESENTE
EL ESTUDIANTE by Santiago Mitre – Argentina

SPECIAL MENTION
É NA TERRA NÃO É NA LUA by Gonçalo Tocha – Portugal

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OPERA PRIMA

PARDO PER LA MIGLIORE OPERA PRIMA (BEST FIRST FILM)
NANA by Valérie Massadian – France

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PARDI DI DOMANI

CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

PARDINO D’ORO FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
RAUSCHGIFT (ADDICTED) by Peter Baranowski – Germany

PARDINO D’ARGENTO
LES ENFANTS DE LA NUIT by Caroline Deruas – France

SPECIAL MENTION
MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO by Juliano Dornelles – Brazil

LOCARNO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS – PIANIFICA PRIZE
OPOWIESCI Z CHLODNI (FROZEN STORIES) by Grzegorz Jaroszuk – Poland

THE FILMUND VIDEO UNTERTITELUNG PRIZE
LIBERDADE by Gabriel Abrantes and Benjamin Crotty – Portugal

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CONCORSO NAZIONALE

PARDINO D’ORO FOR THE BEST SWISS SHORT FILM
L’AMBASSADEUR & MOI (THE AMBASSADOR & ME) by Jan Czarlewski

PARDINO D’ARGENTO
LE TOMBEAU DES FILLES (THE GIRLS’ GRAVE) by Carmen Jaquier

PREMIO ACTION LIGHT FOR THE BEST SWISS NEWCOMER
À QUOI TU JOUES (ANOTHER GAME) by Jean Guillaume Sonnier

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CINEMA E GIOVENTU JURY PRIZE – PARDI DI DOMANI

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
OPOWIESCI Z CHLODNI (FROZEN STORIES) by Grzegorz Jaroszuk – Poland

BEST SWISS SHORT FILM
L’AMBASSADEUR & MOI (THE AMBASSADOR & ME) by Jan Czarlewski

SPECIAL MENTION
LE DÉBUT DE LA FIN (MIND THE GAP) by Jean François Vercasson

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PIAZZA GRANDE

PRIX DU PUBLIC UBS
MONSIEUR LAZHAR by Philippe Falardeau, Canada

VARIETY PIAZZA GRANDE AWARD
MONSIEUR LAZHAR by Philippe Falardeau, Canada

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FIPRESCI PRIZE

INTERNATIONAL CRITICS’ PRIZE (FIPRESCI PRIZE)
ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (BACK TO STAY) by Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina

ECUMENICAL PRIZE
VOL SPECIAL by Fernand Melgar, Switzerland

SPECIAL MENTION
ONDER ONS (AMONG US) by Marco Van Geffen, Netherland
ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (BACK TO STAY) by Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina

The 64th Locarno Film Festival announced the lineup for its year 2011 edition. The festival will run from 3rd to 13th August.

This year the Concorso Internazionale presents 20 features, of which 14 are world premières. This competition, both open-minded and demanding, brings together several major names in contemporary cinema who have already produced a body of work that has been acclaimed at many festivals – Locarno regulars, and those invited for the first time, as well as young auteurs from all over the world whose talent and skill already prove they are ripe for international competition.

The Concorso Cineasti del presente, more compact than that of last year, consists of 14 first or second films of which 9 are world premières. This section bears witness to our openness to countries that are emerging on the world cinema map, as it pays particular attention to the most original and gifted of filmmakers on the international indie cinema scene. There are films to be discovered from Portugal, China, Argentina, Italy, France, Switzerland, the Philippines, the USA, Kazakhstan, and a Korean film shot in Uzbekistan!

The Pardi di domani section, devoted to short films, which last year celebrated its twentieth anniversary, is enriched with a new out-of-competition section corti d’artista screening shorts made at the interstices of film and the plastic arts and directed by artist-filmmakers and filmmaker-artists. The corti d’autore section will screen films made by actors and directors who have already made feature films.

Alongside the competitions, fifteen films in the Fuori concorso section offer a panorama of work from all over the world, documentaries, film essays, mid-length films and fiction films as world, international or European premieres.

The Festival del film Locarno salutes the courage of Jafar Panahi, sentenced to six years in prison, and banned from filmmaking for twenty years, for having criticised the Iranian regime, by screening his second feature, The Mirror, winner of the Golden Leopard at the Festival del film Locarno in 1997.

Finally, this year the Festival’s major retrospective is dedicated to Vincente Minnelli, master of the Hollywood musical and melodrama, all of whose films will be screened in the best available 35mm prints.

 

THE 64TH LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

PIAZZA GRANDE LINE-UP

An enormous square that can accommodate up to 8,000 viewers a night, the Piazza Grande is
both the Festival’s heart and its showcase. With its giant screen, one of the biggest in Europe,
endowed with truly exceptional projection quality, the Piazza Grande is one of the finest openair venues in the world. This magnificent and unique setting is where every night all the many
and diverse Festival audiences come together for a big cinematic event. The programming on
the Piazza Grande offers prestigious screenings, most of them world, international or European
premieres, introduced by the director and the cast.

SUPER 8 by J.J.Abrams
HEADHUNTERS by Morten Tyldum
HELL by Tim Fehlbaum
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS by Will Gluck
MOURIR AUPRÈS DE TOI by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn (short film)
ATTACK THE BLOCK by Joe Cornish
COWBOYS & ALIENS by Jon Favreau
DRIVE by Nicolas Winding Refn
L’ART D’AIMER by Emmanuel Mouret
RED STATE by Kevin Smith
ROMANCE by Georges Schwizgebel (short film)
BACHIR LAZHAR by Philippe Falardeau
4 TAGE IM MAI by Achim von Borries
LE HAVRE by Aki Kaurismäki
SPORT DE FILLES by Patricia Mazuy
SAYA ZAMURAI by Hitoshi Matsumoto
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS by Vincente Minnelli
ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE? by Stéphane Robeli

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

The Concorso internazionale presents a stimulating panorama of contemporary auteur cinema,
where young talent rubs shoulders with that of established directors. A jury of major figures in
cinema is charged with choosing one of the twenty competing fiction or documentary features
from all over the world screened as world or international premieres to win the prestigious
Pardo d’oro.

ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS by Milagros Mumenthaler – Argentina
ANOTHER EARTH by Mike Cahill – United States
BEIRUT HOTEL by Danielle Arbid – Lebanon
CRULIC – DRUMUL SPRE DINCOLO by Anca Damian – Romania
DERNIÈRE SÉANCE by Laurent Achard – France
DIN DRAGOSTE CU CELE MAI BUNE INTENTII by Adrian Sitaru – Romania
EL AÑO DEL TIGRE by Sebastián Lelio – Chile
HASHOTER by Nadav Lapid – Israel
LES CHANTS DE MANDRIN by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – France
LOW LIFE by Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval – France
MANGROVE by Frédéric Choffat and Julie Gilbert – Switzerland
ONDER ONS by Marco Van Geffen – Holland
SAUDADE by Katsuya Tomita – Japan
SETTE OPERE DI MISERICORDIA by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio – Italy
TANATHUR by Tawfik Abu Wael – Israel
TERRI by Azazel Jacobs – United States
THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Loktev – United States
TOKYO KOEN by Shinji Aoyama – Japan
UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE by Mia Hansen-Løve – France
VOL SPÉCIAL by Fernand Melgar – Switzerland

 

FILMAKERS OF THE PRESENT COMPETITION

An ideal arena for discovery, the Concorso Cineasti del presente is dedicated to emerging
directors from all over the world and devoted to first and second features.
Fourteen documentary and fiction features compete as world or international premieres for the
Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio George Foundation.

É NA TERRA NÃO É NA LUA by Gonçalo Tocha – Portugal
EL ÁRBOL DE LAS FRESAS by Simone Rapisarda Casanova – Canada
EL ESTUDIANTE by Santiago Mitre – Argentina
HANAAN by Ruslan Pak – South Korea
HELLO! SHU XIAN SHENG by Jie Han – China
L’ESTATE DI GIACOMO by Alessandro Comodin – Italy
NANA by Valérie Massadian – France
PAPIROSEN by Gaston Solnicki – Argentina
SEÑORITA by Vincent Sandoval – Phillippines
SOLNETCHNIYE DNI by Nariman Turebayev – Kazakhstan
TAI YANG ZONG ZAI ZUO BIAN by Sonthar Gyal – China
THE COLOR WHEEL by Alex Ross Perry – United States
THE SUBSTANCE – ALBERT HOFMANN’S LSD by Martin Witz – Switzerland
WITHOUT by Mark Jackson – United States

 

FOURI CONCORSO – OUT OF COMPETITION

The Fuori concorso selection offers recent work – feature, shorts, film essays, and
documentaries – by well-established filmmakers, presented out of competition. A place is
offered to work presented in non-standard formats, such as collective projects or collections of
films, mostly as world, international or European premieres.

DUE 100 OFFICINE by Danilo Catti – Switzerland
BUENAS NOCHES, ESPAÑA by Raya Martin – Spain/Philippines
CARTE BLANCHE by Heidi Specogna – Switzerland/Germany
ELS NOMS DE CRIST (The Names of Christ) by Albert Serra – Spain
GLAUSER by Christoph Kühn – Switzerland
GOTTHARD SCHUH. UNA VISIONE SENSUALE DEL MONDO by Villi Hermann – Switzerland
INCONSCIO ITALIANO by Luca Guadagnino – Italy
LET THE BULLETS FLY by JIANG Wen – China
MILANO 55,1. CRONACA DI UNA SETTIMANA DI PASSIONI by Luca Mosso and Bruno Olivier – Italy
NINIFUNI by Tetsuya Mariko – Japan
TAHRIR by Stefano Savona – Italy/France

DREILEBEN

ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD (Beats Being Dead) by Christian Petzold – Germany
KOMM MIR NICHT NACH (Don’t Follow Me Around) by Dominik Graf – Germany
EIN MINUTE DUNKEL (One Minute of Darkness) by Christoph Hochhäusler – Germany

JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT

UN HÉRITIER (An Heir) by Jean-Marie Straub – South Korea
MEMORIES OF A MORNING by José Luis Guerin – South Korea
ALLER AU DIABLE (To the Devil) by Claire Denis – South Korea

OTHER CORRESPONDENTS

SIN TITULO (Carta para Serra) by Lisandro Alonso – Argentina/Spain
EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES (Lord Worked Wonders in Me) by Albert Serra – Spain

 

THE 64TH LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL JURIES

The Jury of the Concorso Internazionale
President: Paulo Branco, producer (Portugal)
Louis Garrel, actor and filmmaker (France)
Luca Guadagnino, filmmaker (Italy)
Sandra Hüller, actress (Germany)
Bettina Oberli, filmmaker (Switzerland)

The Jury of the Concorso Cineasti del presente
President: Christoph Hochhäusler, filmmaker (Germany)
Michelangelo Frammartino, filmmaker (Italy)
Raya Martin, filmmaker (Philippines)
Zhu Rikun, producer (China)
Athina Rachel Tsangari, filmmaker and producer (Greece)

The Jury of the Pardi di domani
President: Indu Shrikent, film critic and festival director (India)
Bakur Bakuradze, filmmaker (Georgia/Russia)
Tom Shoval, film critic and filmmaker (Israel)
Luc Toutounghi, producer (Switzerland)
Rebecca Zlotowski, filmmaker (France)

The Jury of the Best First Feature – Opera prima
Anthony Bobeau, film critic (France)
Robert Koehler, film critic (United States)
Kong Rithdee, film critic (Thailand)