#Locarno68 Award Winners

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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