75th Locarno Film Festival

The 75th annual Locarno Festival opened on 3 August 2022 in Locarno, Switzerland with film Bullet Train by David Leitch. The 75th edition of Locarno Film Festival celebrated as diamond jubilee edition screened 226 films including 105 world premieres and 3 international premieres. It hosted retrospective screenings of Douglas Sirk’s films in its Retrospettiva section. 

The festival closed on 13 August with the Swiss-German documentary film Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth (Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit.) by André Schäfer. Rule 34 by Julia Murat was awarded the Golden Leopard and The Adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin Special Jury Prize.

On the last day of the festival the Variety Piazza Grande Award went to French film Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir, and the Prix du Public UBS, to Swiss-Belgian film Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey. 128,500 audience watched the screenings during the eleven days of the festival, along with the film professionals.

Events

Rotonda by la Mobiliare - Come together! 
This event was held from July 29 to August 14. It is Locarno Film Festival’s communal space, featuring a wide range of entertainment and discoveries, open and accessible to all. It constituted following platforms:

 Music
 Art 
 Food and beverage

Exhibition SocialSim by Hito Steyerl

VR Experience 
In collaboration with Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)

Film Festival Tour by Ascona-Locarno

Exhibition René Burri

Skies by Kollektiv Beton @ BaseCamp

A 24h long talk on the Future of Attention

Juries

International Competition
 Michel Merkt, producer and consultant (Jury President)
 Prano Bailey-Bond, Welsh filmmaker
 Alain Guiraudie, French filmmaker
 William Horberg, American film producer and chair emeritus of the Producers Guild of America
 Laura Samani, Italian director

Filmmakers of the Present
 Annick Mahnert, film festival curator, film producer and director of programming at Fantastic Fest, programs the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival
 Gitanjali Rao, Indian theatre actress, animator and filmmaker
 Katriel Schory, producer, senior consultant international co-productions

Leopards of Tomorrow
 Walter Fasano, Italian film editor and director
 Azra Deniz Okyay, Turkish filmmaker
 Ada Solomon, Romanian producer

First Feature
 Boo Junfeng, Singaporean filmmaker
 Shahram Mokri, Iranian filmmaker
 Madeline Robert, French producer

Green Pardo WWF
 Thierry Hugot, responsible for the Sustainability Study Group at Eurimages
 Sonia I. Seneviratne, Swiss climate scientist, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich
 Alessandro Rak, Italian cartoonist, animator and director

Sections 
Sources:

Pre-Festival

Piazza Grande

International competition (Concorso internazionale) 
Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard winner

Filmmakers of the present competition (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
Highlighted title indicates award winner

Leopards of tomorrow (Pardi di domani)

International competition (Concorso internazionale) 
Highlighted title indicates award winner

National Competition (Concorso nazionale)
Highlighted title indicates award winner

Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
Highlighted title indicates award winner

Pardi do domani: Evento speciale

Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)

Open Doors Screenings

Open Doors Short Films Screenings
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Original Title
! Director
! Production Country
|-
| Agwe
| Samuel Frantz Suffren
| Haiti 
|-
|Black Doll 
| Akley Olton
| Saint Vincent, Grenadines
|-
|Hojas de K. 
| Gloria Carrión
| Nicaragua, Costa Rica
|-
|Liremu Barana 
| Elvis Caj Cojoc
| Guatemala, Norway
|-
|Negra soy| Laura Bermúdez
| Honduras
|-
|Out of many 
| Rebecca Williams
| Jamaica
|-
|Scars of Our Mothers’ Dreams 
| Meschida Philip
| Grenada
|-
|Techos Rotos 
| Yanillys Pérez
| Dominican Republic 
|-
|Tundra 
| José Luis Aparicio Ferrera
| Cuba
|-
|Umbra 
| Daniela Muñoz Barroso
| Cuba
|-

|}

History(s) of Cinema (Histoire(s) du Cinéma)

Retrospective (Retrospettiva)

 Douglas Sirk 

 Homages 

Locarno Kids

International Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique)

Swiss Panorama (Panorama Suisse)

Official Awards

International Competition

 Golden Leopard: Rule 34 by Julia Murat

 Special Jury Prize: The Adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin

 Best Direction Award: I Have Electric Dreams by Valentina Maurel
 Best Actor Award: Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez for I Have Electric Dreams

 Best Actress Award: Daniela Marín Navarro for I Have Electric Dreams

Filmmakers of the Present
 Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Nightsiren by Tereza Nvotová
 Special Jury Prize: How Is Katia? by Christina Tynkevych
 Best Emerging Director: Juraj Lerotić for Safe Place
 Leopard for the Best Actress: Anastasia Karpenko for How Is Katia?
 Leopard for the Best Actor: Goran Marković for Safe Place
 Special Mention''': Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? by Franciska Eliassen

Leopards of Tomorrow
International Competition (Concorso Internazionale)
 Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film:
 Sovereign by Wara
 Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition:
 Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
 Pardi di domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering:
 Hardly Working by Total Refusal
 Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award:
 Mulika by Maisha Maene
Special Mentions:
 Mother Prays All Day Long by Hoda Taheri

National Competition (Concorso Nazionale)

 Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film:
 Euridice, Euridice by Lora Mure-Ravaud
 Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition:
 The Newt Congress by Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser
 Best Swiss Newcomer Award:
 Michèle Flury for HeartbeatCompetition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
 Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film:
 Big Bang by Carlos Segundo

First Feature
 Swatch First Feature Award: Safe Place by Juraj Lerotić
Special Mention:Love Dog by Bianca Lucas
 At Night the Cats Are Brown by Valentin Merz
Green Pardo WWF
 Pardo Verde WWF:
 Matter Out of Time by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
 Special Mentions:
 Sermon to the Fish by  Hilal Baydarov
 It Is Night in America by Ana Vaz
Piazza Grande

 Audience award (Prix du Public UBS): 
 Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey
 Variety Piazza Grande Award:
 Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir

 Independent jury awards 

 Ecumenical Jury Award 
 Tales of the Purple House by Abbas Fahdel

 FIPRESCI Award 
 Stone Turtle by Ming Jin Woo

 European Cinemas Label Award 
 Tommy Guns by Carlos Conceição
International Critics' Week

 Grand Prix:
 The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowsk
 Premio Zonta Club Locarno:
 Ruthless Times – Songs of Care by Susanna Helke
 Marco Zucchi Award:
 Fledglings by Lidia Duda

Junior Jury Awards

 Junior Jury Award: Piaffe by Ann Oren
 Runner-up: Tommy Guns by Carlos Conceição
 Second runner-up: Serviam – Ich Will Dienen by Ruth Mader
 Environment Award: Sermon to the Fish by Hilal Baydarov
 Cineasti del Presente Award: Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick?, by Franciska Eliassen
 Special Mention: Petites by Julie Lerat-Gersant
 Best International Short Film: Hardly Working by Total Refusal
 Best Swiss Short Film: Fairplay by Zoel Aeschbacher
 Special Mention: Les Dieux du Supermarché by Alberto Gonzalez Morales
 Open Doors Short Award: Techos Rotos'' by Yanillys Pérez

Special Awards

Leopard of Honour (Pardo d’onore Manor award) 
 Matt Dillon
 Kelly Reichardt

Locarno Kids Award (la Mobiliare) 
 Gitanjali Rao

Pardo alla carriera (Leopard Career Award) 
 Costa-Gavras

Vision Award Ticinomoda 
 Laurie Anderson

Premio Raimondo Rezzonico 
 Jason Blum

Excellence Award Davide Campari 
 Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Leopard Club Award 
 Daisy Edgar-Jones

References

External links
 

Locarno
2022 festivals in Europe
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Locarno Festival
August 2022 events in Switzerland