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Official Awards
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG
Sangsoo, South Korea
Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize)
TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Pardo per la miglior regia (Best direction)
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI for COSMOS, France/Portugal
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best actress)
TANAKA SACHIE, KIKUCHI HAZUKI, MIHARA MAIKO, KAWAMURA RIRA for
HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile (Best actor)
JUNG JAE-YOUNG for JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now,
Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo, South Korea
Special Mention
For the script of HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
For the cinematography by Shai Goldman for TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Concorso Cineasti del presente
Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio Nescens
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente (Special Jury prize)
DEAD SLOW AHEAD by Mauro Herce, Spain/France
Premio per il miglior regista emergente (Prize for the best emerging director)
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
First Feature Swatch First Feature Award (Prize for Best First Feature)
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
SINA ATAEIAN DENA for MA DAR BEHESHT (Paradise), Iran/Gemany
Special Mentions
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
KIEV/MOSCOW. PART 1 by Elena Khoreva, Russia/Estonia/Ukraine
Pardi di domani
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio internazionale – Premio SRG SSR
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR per il Concorso internazionale
LA IMPRESIÓN DE UNA GUERRA by Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia
Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianifica
FILS DU LOUP by Lola Quivoron, France
Premio Film und Video Untertitelung
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Special Mention
NUEVA VIDA by Kiro Russo, Argentina/Bolivia
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio svizzero – Premio Swiss Life
LE BARRAGE by Samuel Grandchamp, Switzerland/USA
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life per il Concorso nazionale
D’OMBRES ET D’AILES by Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng, Switzerland/France
Best Swiss Newcomer Award
LES MONTS S’EMBRASENT by Laura Morales, Switzerland
Prix du Public UBS
DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume, Germany
Variety Piazza Grande Award
LA BELLE SAISON by Catherine Corsini, France
Concorso internazionale
The Jury
The official Jury of the 68° Festival del film Locarno, composed by:
Udo Kier, Actor (Germany)
Nadav Lapid, Director (Israel)
Daniela Michel, Festival Director (Mexico)
MOON So-ri, Actress (South Korea)
Jerry Schatzberg, Director (United States)
awarded the following prizes:
Pardo d’oro
Grand Prize of the Festival, the City of Locarno (90,000 CHF to be shared equally between the
director and the producer) to:
JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo,
South Korea
Premio speciale della giuria
Prize of the Cities of Ascona and Losone (30,000 CHF to be shared equally between the director
and the producer) awarded to the second best film:
TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Pardo per la miglior regia
Prize from the Region of Locarno (20,000 CHF) to: ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI
for COSMOS, France/Portugal
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile
to the actresses: TANAKA SACHIE, KIKUCHI HAZUKI, MIHARA MAIKO, KAWAMURA RIRA
for HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile
to the actor: JUNG JAE-YOUNG
for JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG
Sangsoo, South Korea
Special Mentions
For the script of HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
For the cinematography by Shai Goldman for TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Concorso Cineasti del
presente
The Jury
President: Júlio Bressane, Director (Brazil)
Fabrice Aragno, Director and DOP (Switzerland)
Clotilde Courau, Actress (France)
Joanna Hogg, Director (United Kingdom)
Jay Van Hoy, Producer (United States)
awarded the following prizes:
Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio Nescens
worth 40,000 CHF, to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente
worth 25,000 CHF for broadcast rights paid to the French distributor to the second best film:
DEAD SLOW AHEAD by Mauro Herce, Spain/France
Premio per il miglior regista emergente
Prize worth 20,000 CHF for the best emerging director:
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
First Feature
The Jury
Haden Guest, Film Historian and Archive Director (United States)
Roger Alan Koza, Film Critic (Argentina)
Cristina Piccino, Film Critic (Italy)
awarded the following prizes:
Swatch First Feature Award (Prize for Best First Feature)
15,000 CHF to be shared equally between the director and the producer awarded to the Best
First Film screened in the Piazza Grande, Concorso internazionale, Concorso Cineasti del
presente, Fuori concorso or Signs of Life:
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
a 3 to 6 month residency in the Shanghai hotel of the same name to:
SINA ATAEINA DENA for MA DAR BEHESHT (Paradise), Iran/Gemany
Special Mentions
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
KIEV/MOSCOW. PART 1 by Elena Khoreva, Russia/Estonia/Ukraine
Pardi di domani
The Jury
President: Milcho Manchevski, Director (Republic of Macedonia)
Laura Bispuri, Director (Italy)
Denis Klebleev, Director (Russia)
Agustina Llambi Campbell, Producer (Argentina)
Lorenz Merz, Director (Switzerland)
awarded the following prizes:
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio internazionale – Premio SRG SSR
worth 10,000 CHF:
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR per il Concorso internazionale
worth 5,000 CHF:
LA IMPRESIÓN DE UNA GUERRA by Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia
Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianifica
Premio Pianifica is worth 2,000 CHF, offered by the Studio Pianifica. The award includes an
automatic nomination to the short film category of the European Film Awards:
FILS DU LOUP by Lola Quivoron, France
Premio Film und Video Untertitelung
Sponsored by the Film und Video Untertitelung Gerhard Lehmann AG society, in the form of
subtitling in three central European languages, to:
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Special Mention
NUEVA VIDA by Kiro Russo, Argentina/Bolivia
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio svizzero – Premio Swiss Life
worth 10,000 CHF:
LE BARRAGE by Samuel Grandchamp, Switzerland/USA
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life per il Concorso nazionale
worth 5,000 CHF:
D’OMBRES ET D’AILES by Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng, Switzerland/France
Best Swiss Newcomer Award
Which provides equipment and services offered Cinegrell, Visuals SA, Freestudios SA, Taurus
Studio, Avant-Première and Film Demnächst.
LES MONTS S’EMBRASENT by Laura Morales, Switzerland
Piazza Grande
Prix du Public UBS
The winner of the audience prize “Prix du Public UBS” worth 30,000 CHF is:
DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume, Germany
Variety Piazza Grande Award
The Variety Piazza Grande Award is attributed by a jury composed of several critics attached to
the American trade paper Variety who will be attending the Festival and it will go to a film
screened in the Piazza Grande program as world or international premiere. The Prize is awarded
to a film that stands out for both its artistic qualities and its potential for theatrical release,
and is intended to assist the chosen movie’s critical and commercial fortunes.
The Variety Piazza Grande Award goes to:
LA BELLE SAISON by Catherine Corsini, France
Independent Juries and
Awards
Ecumenical Prize
The Jury
President: Catherine Wong (China)
Martin Ernesto Bernal Alonso (Argentina)
Gaëlle Courtens (Italy)
Franz-Xavier Hiestand (Switzerland)
Ola Sigurdson (Sweden)
Thomas Wipf (Schweiz)
awarded its prize to the value of 20.000 CHF, offered by Reformed Church and Catholic Church
of Switzerland, and is committed for the film’s distribution of the movie in Switzerland, to:
MA DAR BEHESHT (Paradise) by Sina Ataeian Dena, Iran/Germany
Special Mentions
BELLA E PERDUTA by Pietro Marcello, Italy
JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo,
South Korea
FIPRESCI Prize
(International Federation of Film Critics)
The Jury
Raphaële Bouchet (Switzerland)
Nil Kural (Turky)
René Marx (France)
Bhaichand Patel (India)
Mateusz Werner (Poland)
awarded the International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) to:
SUITE ARMORICAINE by Pascale Breton, France
Europa Cinemas Label
The Jury
Gabriëlla Boonen (Belgium)
Ernest Huska (Czech Republic)
Daniel Melamed (Israel)
Boglárka Nagy (Romania)
has awarded the Europa Cinemas Label, prize intended to encourage the circulation of the
chosen film on the screens of the Europa Cinemas Association, to:
KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, Belgium/Switzerland/France
Junior Jury Awards
The jury members are selected from the participants in the Cinema & Gioventù initiative.
Livio Crivelli, Pietro Floris, Alessandro Guastalla, Michele Pozzi, Olmo Spinedi, Matteo
Valsecchi, Alessandra Ortelli, Valentina Casadei, Kavita Albizzati awarded the following prizes,
offered by the Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello sport (DECS) del Cantone
Ticino of Canton Ticino, to the best directors in the Concorso internazionale:
First Prize (6,000 CHF)
BELLA E PERDUTA by Pietro Marcello, Italy
Second Prize (4,000 CHF)
JAMES WHITE by Josh Mond, USA
Third Prize (2,000 CHF)
HEIMATLAND by Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier,
Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nölle, Lionel Rupp, Mike Scheiwiller,
Switzerland/Germany
«Environment is quality of life» Prize (3,000 CHF)
ENTERTAINMENT by Rick Alverson, USA
The Cinema & Gioventù Jury for the Concorso Cineasti del presente, composed of Giada
Crivelli, Donata Dettwiler, Timothée Zurbuchen, Maya Barenstein, Federico Talarico,
Ferdinand Regent-Chappey, Giacomo Poli, Thanid Bossi, Anouk Chambaz, Mattia Calabrese
awarded the following prize, offered by the Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello
sport (DECS) del Cantone Ticino, worth a total of 2,000 CHF to:
OLMO & THE SEAGULL by Petra Costa and Léa Glob, Denmark/Brazil/Portugal/France
The Cinema & Gioventù Jury for the Pardi di domani section, composed of Julie Mucchuit,
Letizia Petrino, Claudia Compoli, Giulia Fasola, Sofia Talarico, Sofia Schwarz, Zeno Tamagni
Lazzari, Ariele Sgheiza, Anna Citterio, Edoardo Nerboni, Charlotte Stamm awarded the
following prizes, offered by the Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello sport
(DECS) del Cantone Ticino, worth a total of 3,000 CHF, to be shared between a Swiss film and a
film of the international competition to:
Best International Short Film
DEAR DIRECTOR by Marcus Lindeen, Sweden
Best Swiss Short Film
D’OMBRES ET D’AILES by Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng, Switzerland/France
Special Mention
HAUSARREST by Matthias Sahli, Switzerland
Premio FICC/IFFS
(International Federation of Film Societies)
The Jury
Sara Cereghetti (Switzerland)
Xavier Cairó (Spain)
Tea Gabidzashvili (Georgia)
awarded the Don Quijote Prize of the FICC / IFFS to:
TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Special Mention
JAMES WHITE by Josh Mond, USA
Semaine de la critique
The Jury
Anke Leweke (Germany)
Andreas Furler (Switzerland)
Thierry Lounas (France)
awarded the SRG SSR Prize/Semaine de la critique worth 8,000 CHF to:
BROTHERS by Wojciech Staroń, Poland
and the Premio Zonta Club Locarno to the film which promotes a better justice and social ethics
to:
MÓW MI MARIANNA (CALL ME MARIANNA) by Karolina Bielawska, Poland