The jury comprised of Michel Merkt, Prano Bailey-Bond, Alain Guiraudie, William Horberg and Laura Samani have bestowed the big daddy prize of them all in the Golden Leopard to Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat‘s Regra 34. Her third fiction feature tells the story of Simone, a 23-year-old who studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
The jury gave the Special Jury Prize to Alessandro Comodin for Gigi La Legge while Belgium/France/Costa Rica co-production Tengo Sueños Eléctricos was handsomely rewarded with three prizes winning by Best Direction (Valentina Maurel), Best Actress (Daniela Marín Navarro) and Best Actor (Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez). Here are all the prize winners from the different sections:
Concorso Cineasti del presente
Pardo d’oro Concorso Cineasti del presente to the best film
SVETLONOC (NIGHTSIREN) by Tereza Nvotová, Slovakia / Czech Republic
Best Emerging Director Award of the City and Region of Locarno
Juraj Lerotić for SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE), Croatia
Special Jury Prize Ciné+
YAK TAM KATIA? (HOW IS KATIA?) di Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine
Pardo for Best Actress
Anastasia Karpenko for YAK TAM KATIA? (HOW IS KATIA?) by Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine
Pardo for Best Actor
Goran Marković for SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE) by Juraj Lerotić, Croazia
Special Mention
DEN SISTE VÅREN (SISTER, WHAT GROWS WHERE LAND IS SICK?) by Franciska Eliassen, Norway
First Feature
Swatch First Feature Award
SIGURNO MJESTO (SAFE PLACE) by Juraj Lerotić, Croatia
Special Mentions
LOVE DOG by Bianca Lucas, Poland/Mexico/USA
DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS by Valentin Merz, Switzerland
Pardi di domani
Concorso Corti d’autore
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film
BIG BANG by Carlos Segundo, France/Brazil
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film
SOBERANE (SOVEREIGN) by Wara, Cuba
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition
BUURMAN ABDI (NEIGHBOUR ABDI) by Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands
Pardi di domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering
HARDLY WORKING by Total Refusal, Austria
Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
MULIKA by Maisha Maene, Democratic Republic of Congo
Special Mention
MADAR TAMAME ROOZ DOA MIKHANAD (MOTHER PRAYS ALL DAY LONG) by Hoda Taheri, Germany
Short Film candidate of the Locarno Film Festival for the European Film Awards
BUURMAN ABDI (NEIGHBOUR ABDI) by Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Swiss Short Film
EURIDICE, EURIDICE by Lora Mure-Ravaud, Switzerland/France
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life for the National Competition
DER MOLCHKONGRESS by Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser, Switzerland
Best Swiss Newcomer Award
HEARTBEAT by Michèle Flury, Switzerland
Pardo Verde WWF
MATTER OUT OF PLACE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria
Special Mentions
É NOITE NA AMÉRICA (IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA) by Ana Vaz, Italy/France/Brazil
BALIQLARA XÜTBƏ (SERMON TO THE FISH) by Hilal Baydarov, Azerbaijan /Mexico/Switzerland/Türkiye
