LOCARNO FILM FEST WINNERS

This time, just don't forgive me. It's been longer than I'm comfortable admitting since the Locarno Film Fest wrapped, and I'm only now posting the results of the film calendar's best festival's awards. To make matters worse, the film I'm most anticipating out of all films thus far this year, Lav Diaz's From What Is Before, took the top prize, the Golden Leopard, though for him at least that's far from making anything worse. Diaz was jury president last year at Locarno, when the Leopard went to Albert Serra's Story of My Death. Full, much too belated, details below.

International Competition

Golden Leopard

From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)

Special Jury Prize

Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)

Best Director

Pedro Costa (Horse Money)

Best Actor

Artem Bystrov (The Fool)

Best Actress

Ariane Labed (Fidelio, l'Odyssee d'Alice)

Special Mention

August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro)

More winners after the jump:

Filmmakers of the Present


Golden Leopard

Navajaso (Ricardo Silva)

Special Jury Prize

Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia)

Best Emerging Director

Simone Rapisarda Casanova (The Creation of Meaning)

Special Mention

Un Jeune Poete (Damien Manivel)

Best First Feature

Songs from the North (Yoo Soon Mi)

Best First Feature - Special Mention

Parole de Kamikaze (Sawada Masa)

Leopards of Tomorrow

International Competition

Golden Leopard

Abandoned Goods (Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson)

Silver Leopard

Shipwreck (Morgan Knibbe)

Pianifica Award

Shipwreck (Morgan Knibbe)

Film and Video Subtitling Award

Hole (Martin Edralin)

Special Mention

White Death (Roberto Collio)

National Competition

Golden Leopard

Totems (Sarah Arnold)

Silver Leopard

Petit Homme (Jean-Guillaume Sonnier)

Action Light Award
Off the Highway (Rhona Muhlebach)

Audience Award

Unlikely Heroes (Peter Luisi)

Variety Piazza Grande Award

Marie Heurtin (Jean-Pierre Ameris)

Critics Week Award

15 Corners of the World (Zuzanna Solakiewicz)

La Mort du Dieu Serpent (Damien Froidevaux)

FIPRESCI Prize
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)


Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov)


Don Quixote Award
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)


Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov)


Zonta Club Locarno Award
La Mort du Dieu Serpent (Damien Froidevaux)


Europa Cinemas Label
Fidelio, l'Odyssee d'Alice (Lucie Borleteau)



Junior Jury Awards


International Competition


Junior Jury Award
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov)


Special Mention
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)


Leopards of Tomorrow - International Competition


Junior Jury Award
Sleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino)


Special Mention
Mother Earth (Piotr Zlotorowicz)


Leopards of Tomorrow - National Competition

Junior Jury Award
Off the Highway (Rhona Muhlebach)


'Environment Is Quality of Life' Prize

From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)



Excellence Award
Giancarlo Giannini

Leopard of Honour

Agnes Varda

Lifetime Achievement Award
Armin Mueller-Stahl

Raimondo Rezzonico Award

Shi Nan Sun