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.

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Vitalina Varela directed by Pedro Costa.

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

International Competition (Concorso internazionale)

Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente)

Moving Ahead

Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di domani)

International Competition (Concorso internazionale)

Swiss Competition (Concorso nazionale)

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

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