The Film Festival Locarno known as Festival del film Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. The top prize is the Golden Leopard awarded to the best film in the international competition.
Congratulations to Ho Yuhang for his film Sham Moh was selected to compete in this year festival. Malaysia Boleh! This year’s festival run from 5-15.08.2009.

There are 19 films to compete for the Golden Leopard they are:

A Religiosa Portuguesa

Director:
Eugène Green
Writer:
Eugène Green (screenplay)

Plot
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

Akadimia Platonso

Director:
Fillipos Tsitos
Writer:
Alexis Kardaras (writer)

Plot
A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family’s past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.

Au Voleur

Director:
Sarah Petit
Writers:
Emmanuelle Jacob & Sarah Petit (screenplay)

Plot
An unlikely relationship goes deeper between a petty criminal with a young teacher when they run to forest trying to avoid the law.

Buben, Baraban

Director:
Aleksei Mizgiryov
Writer:
Aleksei Mizgiryov (screenplay)

Plot
Follow the story of Yekaterina Artemovna (Natalia Negoda), set in late 1990s Russia, where she struggles as best as she can to improve her own life despite many challenges she faces throughout the hard time.

Complices

Director:
Frédéric Mermoud
Writers:
Pascal Arnold (writer)
Frédéric Mermoud (writer)

Plot
Crime story investigating the murder and the disappearance of two teenagers, both are prostitutes and the case’s impact to it’s investigators.

Frontier Blues

Director:
Babak Jalali
Writer:
Babak Jalali (written by)

Plot
A touching and amusing story about four men in Gorgan, dealing with their everyday life. Life for these four individuals passes slowly, lulled by a daily routine in which hope has almost entirely disappeared, even though the odd glimmer might appear.

…to be continued