The 75th annual Locarno Festival opened on 3 August 2022 in Locarno, Switzerland with film Bullet Train by David Leitch.[1] 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.[2][3]
The festival closed on 13 August with the closing 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.[4]
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.[5]
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:
Filmmakers of the present competition (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
Title
Original title
Country
Director
A Perfect Day for Caribou
USA
Jeff Rutherford
Arnold Is a Model Student
Arnon pen nakrian tuayang
Thailand, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Philippines
Sorayos Prapapan
Astrakan
France
David Depesseville
Before I Change My Mind
Canada
Trevor Anderson
Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?
Den siste våren
Norway
Franciska Eliassen
Fragments From Heaven
Morocco, France
Adnane Baraka
Love Dog
Poland, Mexico, USA
Bianca Lucas
Matadero
Argentina, Spain, France
Santiago Fillol
Our Lady of the Chinese Shop
Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês
Angola
Ery Claver
Little Ones
Petites
France
Julie Lerat-Gersant
Petrol
Australia
Alena Lodkina
Safe Place
Sigurno mjesto
Croatia
Juraj Lerotić
Nightsiren
Svetlonoc
Slovakia, Czech Republic
Tereza Nvotová
How Is Katia?
Yak Tam Katia?
Ukraine
Christina Tynkevych
It Is Night in America
É Noite na América
Italy, France, Brazil
Ana Vaz
Leopards of tomorrow (Pardi di domani)
The section consists of three competitions and a special event with short films made during the Locarno Spring Academy:
International competition (Concorso internazionale): Works by emerging filmmakers from all over the world;
National competition (Concorso nazionale): Swiss productions; and
Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore): short works by established directors
Pardi di domani: Special Event
International competition (Concorso internazionale)
Title
Original title
Country
Director
AirHostess-737
Greece
Thanasis Neofotistos
At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago
USA
Andrew Stephen Lee
Neighbour Abdi
Buurman Abdi
Netherlands
Douwe Dijkstra
Castells
France, Spain
Blanca Camell Galí
Dancing Colors
Indonesia
M. Reza Fahriyansyah
Daron, Daron Colbert
USA
Kevin Steen
Pillow Face
Faccia di cuscino
Italy
Saverio Cappiello
Hardly Working
Austria
Total Refusal
Diamond Kid
L'Enfant au diamant
France
Pierre Edouard Dumora
Shadow of the Butterflies
L'Ombre des papillons
France, Portugal, Qatar, Morocco
Sofia El Khyari
Lake of Fire
Germany
NEOZOON
Balls
Lopte
Serbia, Slovenia
Gorana Jovanović
Moon That Cracks Over the Darkness of My Loneliness
Luna que se quiebra sobre la tiniebla de mi soledad
Argentina
Lucila Mariani
Mother Prays All Day Long
Madar tamame rooz doa mikhanad
Germany
Hoda Taheri
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Mini-mini-pokke no okina niwa de
Japan
YUKI Yoko
Misaligned
Poland, Latvia
Marta Magnuska
Money and Happiness
Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia
Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr
Mulika
Democratic Republic of Congo
Maisha Maene
Sovereign
Soberane
Cuba
Wara
Tiger Stabs Tiger
China
SHEN Jie
National competition (Concorso nazionale)
Title
Original title
Country
Director
Brandon Roi
Switzerland
Romain Jaccoud
The Newt Congress
Der Molchkongress
Switzerland
Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser
Euridice, Euridice
Switzerland
Lora Mure-Ravaud
Fairplay
Switzerland
Zoel Aeschbacher
Heart Fruit
Switzerland
Kim Allamand
Heartbeat
Switzerland
Michèle Flury
I’m the Only One I Wanna See
Switzerland
Lucia Martinez Garcia
Gods of the Supermarket
Les Dieux du supermarché
Switzerland
Alberto Gonzalez Morales
Limits
Limites
Switzerland
Simon de Diesbach
Serafina
Switzerland
Noa Epars, Anna Simonetti
Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)
Title
Original title
Country
Director
Asterión
Czech Republic, Slovakia
Francesco Montagner
At Dusk
Au crépuscule
Canada
Miryam Charles
Big Bang
France, Brazil
Carlos Segundo
Song for the Buried City
Chant pour la ville enfouie
France
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It
Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans
France
Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Palestine, Germany
Kamal Aljafari
Poitiers
France
Jérôme Reybaud
Nothing Will Be the Same Again
Rien ne sera plus comme avant
France
Elina Löwensohn
Last Screening
Songy Seans
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
Darezhan Omirbaev
That’s How the Summer Ended
Tako se je končalo poletje
Slovenia, Hungary, Italy
Matjaž Ivanišin
Pardi do domani: Evento speciale
Title
Original title
Country
Director
Let’s make something('Mano destra, Mano sinistra', 'Limes', 'Ci andavo in bicicletta', 'Lorem Ipsum', 'Buio', 'Virilio|Brecht', 'Nido di Pietra', 'La visita', 'Happy Homes', 'Sonnenstube', 'The Fortunates', 'Please make it work')
Switzerland
Younes Ben Slimane, Caterina Biasiucci, Matilde Casari, Ben Donateo, María Silvia Esteve, Antonio Valerio Frascella, Reto Gelshorn, Maria Giménez Cavallo, Agnese Làposi, Davide Palella, Moona Pennanen, Daniel Soares
Leopard of Honour (Pardo d’onore Manor award): Matt Dillon was honored with Leopard of Honour, the lifetime achievement award (Pardo d’onore Manor award) on August 4 at Locarno’s Piazza Grande.[12]
Locarno Kids Award (la Mobiliare): Gitanjali Rao was honored with Locarno Kids Award on August 8 at Locarno’s Piazza Grande accompanied by screening of her animated short film Printed Rainbow.[13]