Locarno Film Festival, 04 - 14 August, 2010 - Winners

On Saturday night the Locarno Film Festival came to a close. Here is a brief list of this year's winners:

International Competition

Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard)
HAN JIA (Winter Vacation) by LI Hongqi, China

Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize)
MORGEN by Marian Crisan, France/Romania/Hungary

Pardo per la migliore regia (Best Director)
Denis Côté
for CURLING , Canada

Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Leopard for Best Actress)
Jasna Duricic
in BELI BELI SVET (White White World) by Oleg Novkovic, Serbia/Germany/Sweden

Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile (Leopard for Best Actor)
Emmanuel Bilodeau
in CURLING by Denis Côté, Canada


Film makers of the Present

Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio George Foundation (Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present Competition)
PARABOLES by Emmanuelle Demoris, France

Premio speciale della giuria CINÉ CINÉMA Cineasti del presente (Special CINÉ CINÉMA Jury Prize)
FOREIGN PARTS by Verena Paravel and JP Sniadecki, USA/France

Special Mention:
IVORY TOWER by Adam Traynor, Canada/France

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Locarno Film Festival, 04 - 14 August, 2010

The Locarno Film Festival opened last night with Benoit Jaquot's film Au fond des bois (France/ Germany 2010). The two main sections of the festival are the Piazza Grande, named after the location where these films are shown and the International Competition.

Besides Benoit Jaquot's opening film, in this year's schedule of Piazza Grande are new films by Francesco Rosi, Daniel von Aarburg and Baran Bo Odar, while the International Competition includes films by Bruce LaBruce (US), Pai Marais (Germany) and Christoph Honore (France).

Also part of the Locarno Film Festival's programme are a complete retrospective of the films of Ernst Lubitsch, covering his German as well as his US period, and so-called special programmes on the work of director Jean-Marie Straub and actor John C. Reilly.

For the full programme, including all sections and sidebars of the Locarno Film Festival, please click here.