# 72nd Locarno Film Festival

The 72nd annual Locarno Festival was held from 7 August to 17 August 2019. The debut feature by Italian director-producer Ginevra Elkann's Magari opened the festival, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's To the Ends of the Earth was screened as closing film.

## Juries
### International Competition

* Catherine Breillat, French filmmaker, novelist and professor - Jury President
* Ilse Hughan, Dutch producer
* Emiliano Morreale, Italian film critic
* Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Argentinian actor
* Angela Schanelec, German filmmaker

### Filmmakers of the Present

* Jake Perlin, American producer - Jury President
* Shengze Zhu, Chinese filmmaker and producer
* Yolande Zauberman, French filmmaker

### Leopards of Tomorrow

* Bi Gan, Chinese filmmaker - Jury President
* Alice Diop, French filmmaker
* Mike Plante, American short films programmer at Sundance Film Festival

### Moving Ahead

* Michael Boyce Gillespie, American film theorist and historian - Jury President
* Aline Schmid, Swiss producer
* Eduardo Williams, Argentinian filmmaker

### Best First Feature Prizes

* Margherita Chiti, Italian distributor - Jury President
* Frédéric Jaeger, German artistic director of Berlin Critics’ Week
* Jacqueline Lyanga, American festival director

## Sections
### Piazza Grande

| English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
| 7500 | 7500 | Patrick Vollrath | Germany, Austria |
| Adoration | Adoration | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium, France |
| Camille | Camille | Boris Lojkine | France |
| Days of the Bagnold Summer | Days of the Bagnold Summer | Simon Bird | United Kingdom |
| Diego Maradona | Diego Maradona | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom |
| Instinct | Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands |
| The Girl with a Bracelet | La Fille au bracelet | Stéphane Demoustier | France, Belgium |
| A Letter to Freddy Buache | Lettre à Freddy Buache | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| If Only (Opening Film) | Magari | Ginevra Elkann | Italy, France |
| New Acid | New Acid | Basim Magdy | France, Switzerland |
| Notre Dame | Notre Dame | Valérie Donzelli | France, Belgium |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| To the Ends of the Earth (Closing Film) | Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan, Uzbekistan, Qatar |

### International Competition (Concorso internazionale)

| English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Fever | A Febre | Maya Da-Rin | Brazil, France, Germany |
| Echo | Bergmål | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, France, Switzerland |
| Cat in the Wall | Cat in the Wall | Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, France |
| A Voluntary Year | Das freiwillige Jahr | Ulrich Köhler [de], Henner Winckler | Germany |
| Douze Mille | Douze Mille | Nadège Trebal | France |
| During Revolution | Fi Al-Thawra | Maya Khoury | Syria, Sweden |
| The Science of Fictions | Hiruk-pikuk si al-kisah | Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia, Malaysia, France |
| Maternal | Hogar | Maura Delpero | Italy, Argentina |
| Isadora's Children | Les Enfants d'Isadora | Damien Manivel | France, South Korea |
| Endless Night | Longa noite | Eloy Enciso | Spain |
| O Fim do Mundo | O Fim do Mundo | Basil Da Cunha | Switzerland |
| Height of the Wave | 파고 | Park Jung-bum | South Korea |
| Technoboss | Technoboss | João Nicolau | Portugal, France |
| South Terminal | Terminal Sud | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | France |
| The Last Black Man in San Francisco | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Joe Talbot | United States |
| Vitalina Varela | Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| A Girl Missing | よこがお | Koji Fukada | Japan, France |

### Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente)

| English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 143 Sahara Street | 143 rue du désert | Hassen Ferhani | Algeria, France, Qatar |
| Bird Island | L'Île aux oiseaux | Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa | Switzerland |
| The Cold Raising The Cold | Lengmo weiyang lengmo | Rong Guang Rong | Italy |
| The Dove and the Wolf | La Paloma y el Lobo | Carlos Lenin | Mexico |
| Ham on Rye | Ham on Rye | Tyler Taormina | United States |
| Here for Life | Here for Life | Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson | United Kingdom |
| Ivana the Terrible | Ivana cea Groaznica | Ivana Mladenović | Romania, Serbia |
| Love Me Tender | Love Me Tender | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland |
| Mariam | Mariam | Sharipa Urazbayeva | Kazakhstan |
| Nafi's Father | Baamum Nafi | Mamadou Dia | Senegal |
| Oroslan | Oroslan | Matjaž Ivanišin | Slovenia, Czech Republic |
| Overseas | Overseas | Yoon Sung-a | Belgique, France |
| Space Dogs | Space Dogs | Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter | Austria, Germany |
| The Tree House | Nhà Cây | Minh Quý Trương | Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, France, China |
| Wonders in the Suburbs | Merveilles à Montfermeil | Jeanne Balibar | France |
| The Young Observant | L'apprendistato | Davide Maldi | Italy |

### Moving Ahead

| English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| (tourism studies) | (tourism studies) | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States |
| A Topography of Memory | A Topography of Memory | Burak Çevik | Turkey, Canada |
| Black Hole | Black Hole | Emmanuel Grimaud, Arnaud Deshayes | France |
| Color-blind | Color-blind | Ben Russell | France, Germany |
| Distancing | Distancing | Miko Revereza | United States |
| The Giverny Document (Single Channel) | The Giverny Document (Single Channel) | Ja'Tovia M. Gary | United States, France |
| In Memoriam | In Memoriam | Jean-Claude Rousseau | France |
| The Invisible Hand | The Invisible Hand | Omer Fast | China, Germany |
| Kasiterit | Kasiterit | Riar Rizaldi | Indonesia |
| Krabi, 2562 | Krabi, 2562 | Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | United Kingdom, Thailand |
| Lore | Lore | Sky Hopinka | United States |
| The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me | The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me | Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | Poland, Switzerland |
| Osmosis | Shān Zhī Běi | Zhou Tao | China |
| Ralf's Colors | Ralfs Farben | Lukas Marxt | Austria, Germany, Spain, France |
| Swinguerra | Swinguerra | Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | Brazil |
| Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another | Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another | Jessica Sarah Rinland | United Kingdom, Argentina, Spain |
| Un film dramatique | Un film dramatique | Éric Baudelaire | France |

### Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di domani)
#### International Competition (Concorso internazionale)

| English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 16 December | 16 de decembro | Alvaro Gago | Spain |
| A Street Under | Chão de Rua | Tomas von der Osten | Brazil |
| All Come From Dust | All Come From Dust | Younes Ben Slimane | Tunisia |
| All the Fires the Fire | All the Fires the Fire | Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis | Greece |
| The Animal | Tskhoveli | Amiran Dolidze | Georgia |
| Black Sun | Siyah güneş | Arda Çiltepe | Turkey, Germany |
| Cobalt Blue | Pyar pyar nyo yaung maing ta-lei-lei | Aung Phyoe | Myanmar |
| Companions of the Cave | Ahlou al kahef | Fakhri El Ghezal | Tunisia |
| Dossier of the Dossier | Dossier of the Dossier | Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand |
| Douma Underground | Douma that al ard | Tim Alsiofi | Lebanon, Syria |
| Enduring Body | Râang Ton Taan | Ukrit Sa-nguanhai | Thailand |
| Eyes on the Road | Eyes on the Road | Stefanie Kolk | Netherlands |
| Father | Vader | Isabel Lamberti | Netherlands |
| Flesh | Carne | Camila Kater | Brazil, Spain |
| The Furniture Maker | El hacedor de muebles | David Aviles | Cuba |
| How to Tell a True Immigrant Story | How to Tell a True Immigrant Story | Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz | United States |
| In Vitro | In Vitro | Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind | United Kingdom, Palestine, Denmark |
| The Last Image of Father | Poslednja slika o ocu | Stefan Djordjevic | Serbia |
| Leave of Absence | Otpusk | Anton Sazonov | Russia |
| Mom's Movie | Mom's Movie | Stella Kyriakopoulos | Greece, Spain |
| Mthunzi | Mthunzi | Tebogo Malebogo | South Africa |
| Our Territory | Notre territoire | Mathieu Volpe | Belgium |
| Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea... | Moutons, loup et tasse de thé... | Marion Lacourt | France |
| Shiver of Love | Frisson d'amour | Maxence Stamatiadis | France |
| Tide | Marée | Manon Coubia | Belgium, France |
| Umbilical | Umbilical | Danski Tang | United States |
| Unfinished | Incompiuta | Samira Guadagnuolo, Tiziano Doria | Italy |
| Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? | Vulcão: O Que Sonha um Lago? | Diana Vidrascu | France, Portugal, Romania |
| White Afro | White Afro | Akosua Adoma Owusu | Ghana, United States |

#### Swiss Competition (Concorso nazionale)

| English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| A Summer Morning | Un matin d'été | Patrick Muroni | Switzerland |
| Aline | Aline | Simon Guélat | Switzerland, France |
| All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Nachts sind alle Katzen grau | Lasse Linder | Switzerland |
| At the Pool | À la piscine | Consuelo Frauenfelder, Stefan Lauper | Switzerland |
| Azure Memories | L'azzurro del cielo | Enea Zucchetti | Switzerland |
| Life is One of the Simplest | Das Leben ist eines der Leichtesten | Marion Nyffenegger | Switzerland |
| Mama Rosa | Mama Rosa | Dejan Barac | Switzerland |
| Sas | Sas | Léa Célestine Bernasconi | Switzerland |
| Still Working | Still Working | Julietta Korbel | Switzerland |
| Silent Storm | Tempête silencieuse | Anaïs Moog | Switzerland |
| Terminal | Terminal | Kim Allamand | Switzerland |

## Official Awards

The following awards were presented for films shown In Competition:

### International Competition

* Golden Leopard: Vitalina Varela by Pedro Costa
* Special Jury Prize: Height of the Wave by Park Jung-bum
* Best Direction Award: Damien Manivel for Isadora's Children
* Best Actor Award: Regis Myrupu for The Fever
* Best Actress Award: Vitalina Varela for Vitalina Varela
* Special Mentions:
** The Science of Fictions by Yosep Anggi Noen
** Maternal by Maura Delpero
* Swatch First Feature Awards: Nafi’s Father by Mamadou Dia

### Filmmakers of the Present

* Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Nafi's Father by Mamadou Dia
* Best Emerging Director: Hassen Ferhani for 143 sahara street
* Special Jury Prize: Ivana the Terrible by Ivana Mladenović
* Special Mention: Here for Life by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson

### Moving Ahead

* Moving Ahead Award: The Giverny Document (Single Channel) by Ja'Tovia M. Gary
* Special Mentions:
** Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another by Jessica Sarah Rinland
** Osmosis by Zhou Tao

### Leopards of Tomorrow

* Pardino d'oro for the Best International Short Film – SRG SSR Prize: Black Sun by Arda Çiltepe
* Pardino d'oro for the Best Swiss Short Film – Swiss Life Prize: Mama Rosa by Dejan Barac
* Pardino d'argento SSR SRG for the international competition: Umbilical by Danski Tang
* Pardino d'argento Swiss Life for the national competition: Silent Storm by Anaïs Moog
* Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize: Anton Sazonov for Leave of Absence