Film festival in Locarno, Switzerland
57th Locarno Film Festival Location Locarno , SwitzerlandFounded 1946 Awards Golden Leopard: Private Saverio Costanzo Artistic director Irene Bignardi Festival date Opening: 4 August 2004 (2004-08-04 ) (2004-08-14 ) Website LFF
The 57th Locarno Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 August 2004 in Locarno , Switzerland.[1] This year at the festival was noteworthy for its political films and documentaries, including The Hunting of the President Control Room which juxtaposed media coverage of the Iraq war between American new agencies and Al Jazeera . Journalist Carl Bernstein attended the Control Room screening and participated in the panel discussion that followed.[2] [3] Seventeen films were set to screen on the Piazza Grande, the 7,000 seat open-air theater, but rain forced many showings inside.[3] [2]
The Golden Leopard , the festival's top prize, was awarded to the Private Saverio Costanzo , which focuses on a Palestinian family whose home is occupied by the Israeli military. [1]
Official Jury
Sections The following films were screened in these sections:[4]
Piazza Grande English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country All The President's Men Alan J. Pakula 1976 USA Appleseed Shinji Aramaki 2004 Japan Asambhav Rajiv Rai 2004 India Singing Behind Screens Cantando Dietro I Paraventi Ermanno Olmi 2003 Italia The Ninth Day Der Neunte Tag Volker Schlöndorff 2004 Germany, Luxembourg Dogora Patrice Leconte 2004 France The Syrian Bride Hacala Hasurit Eran Riklis 2004 Israel, France, Germany King's Game Kongekabale Nikolaj Arcel 2004 Denmark The Girl and the Clouds La Jeune Fille Et Les Nuages Georges Schwizgebel 2000 Switzerland The Rain Children Les Enfants De La Pluie Philippe Leclerc 2003 France Misspellings Les Fautes D'Orthographe Jean-Jacques Zilbermann 2004 France Locarno the Ideal City. Vittorio Storaro's Luminist Project Locarno La Città Ideale. Progetto Luministico Di Vittorio Storaro Jan Godav, Paolo Spalluto 2004 Switzerland Oh Happy Day Hella Joof 2004 Denmark, Great Britain Burn! Queimada Picci Pontecorvo,Gillo Pontecorvo 1970 Italia, USA Samsara Pan Nalin 2001 Germany, Italia, France, India Only Human Seres Queridos Teresa De Pelegri, Dominic Harari 2004 Spain, Great Britain, Argentina, Portugal Sweet Smell of Success Alexander Mackendrick 1957 USA The Bourne Supremacy Paul Greengrass 2004 USA The Football Factory Nick Love 2004 Great Britain, Germany The Hunting of the President Nickolas Perry , Harry Thomason 2004 USA The Notebook Nick Cassavetes 2003 USA
International Competition English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country André Valente Catarina Ruivo 2004 Portugal Antares Spielmann Goetz 2004 Austria Black Friday Anurag Kashyap 2004 India Story Undone Dastan Natamam Hassan Yektapanah 2004 Iran, Ireland, Singapour En Garde Ayse Polat 2004 Germany Private Madness Folie Privée Joachim Lafosse 2004 Belgium Forgiveness Ian Gabriel 2004 South Africa The Buffalo Boy Gardien De Buffles Minh Nguyen-Vô 2004 France, Belgium, Vietnam McDull, the Alumni Samson Chiu , Toe Yuen2004 Hong Kong The Hunter Okhotnik Serik Aprymov 2004 Kazakhstan, Japan, France, Switzerland, Netherlands Ordo Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa 2004 France, Canada, Portugal Poster Boy Zak Tucker 2004 USA Why (not) Brazil Pourquoi (Pas) Le Brésil Laetitia Masson 2004 France Private Saverio Costanzo 2003 Italia Promised Land Michael Beltrami 2004 Switzerland, Italia Tony Takitani Jun Ichikawa 2004 Japan The Wedding Wesele Wojciech Smarzowski 2004 Poland Yasmin Kenny Glenaan 2004 Great Britain, Germany
Filmmakers of the Present The Concorso Cineasti del Presente , also known as the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, showcases films from emerging filmmakers.[5]
Filmmakers of the Present
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Absolut 2004 Switzerland Après Mûre Réflexion After Blackberry Reflection Mia Hansen-Løve 2004 France Casshern Kazuaki Kiriya 2004 Japan Ceský Sen Czech Dream Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda 2004 Czech Republic Cielo Azul Cielo Negro Black Sky Black Sky Sabrina Farji, Paula de Luque 2004 Argentina Cinevardaphoto: Salut Les Cubains Cinevardaphoto: Hi Cubans Agnès Varda 1963 France Cinevardaphoto: Ulysse Agnès Varda 1982 France Cinevardaphoto: Ydessa, Les Ours Et Etc... Cinevardaphoto: Ydessa, Bears and Etc ... Agnès Varda 2004 France Cinevardaphoto Agnès Varda Die Josef Trilogie The Joseph Trilogy Thomas Woschitz Austria Die Josef Trilogie - Part I The Joseph Trilogy - Part 1 Thomas Woschitz 1995 Austria Die Josef Trilogie - Part 2 Blindgaenger The Josef Trilogie - Part 2 Blindgaenger Thomas Woschitz 1996 Austria Die Josef Trilogie - Part 3 Girls + Cars Thomas Woschitz 2004 Austria Dig! Ondi Timoner 2003 USA Geister Und Gäste Ghosts and Guests 1989 Switzerland Greendale Bernard Shakey 2003 USA Le Cou De Clarisse Clarisse's Neck Benjamin Esdraffo 2003 France Le Pont Des Arts The Pont Des Arts Eugène Green 2004 France Meditations On Revolution Part I: Lonely Planet Robert Fenz 1997 USA Meditations On Revolution Part II: The Space In Between Robert Fenz 1997 USA Meditations On Revolution Part III: Soledad Robert Fenz 2001 USA Meditations On Revolution Part IV: Greenville, Ms Robert Fenz 2001 USA Meditations On Revolution Part V: Foreign City Robert Fenz 2003 USA Mystification Ou L'Histoire Des Portraits Mystification or the History of Portraits Sandrine Rinaldi 2003 France Somewhere In Between Pierre Coulibeuf 2004 France, Belgium Still, The Children Are Here Dinaz Stafford 2004 India, USA Survive Style 5+ Gen Sekiguchi 2004 Japan Szezon Season Ferenc Török 2003 Hungary Tang Shi / Tang Poetry Lu Zhang 2004 South Korea, China Tenja Hassan Legzouli 2004 France, Morocco Twisted Tango Tommaso Cardile, Francesco Carrozzini 2004 Italia, France Un Cuento Chino A Chinese Story 2003 Spain Uncovered: The War on Iraq Robert Greenwald 2004 USA Une Visite Au Louvre A Visit to the Louvre Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 2003 France Vertical Air Robert Fenz 1996 USA
Video Section Video - Filmmakers of the Present (Cineasti del Presente) Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 14 Episodes Murad Mazaev 2004 Georgia, Netherlands Appunti Romani Roman Notes Marco Bertozzi 2004 Italia Belvedere Arnold Pasquier 2004 France Cap Esterel Antoine Page 2003 France Cinquecentomila Leoni - Le Ultime Ore Di J.W. Ovvero Tarzan Ovvero J.W. Five Hundred Thousand Lions - The Last Hours of J.W. that is Tarzan or J.W. Andrea Liberovici, Aldo Nove 2004 Italia Contretemps 2004 France Détour De Seta Salvo Cuccia 2004 Italia Electronic Performers Bruno Dunckel 2003 France Faibles Amusements Low Amusements 2004 France Frammenti Di Novecento Fragments of Twentieth Century Francesco (Citto) Maselli 2004 Italia François Truffaut, Une Autobiographie François Truffaut, an Autobiography Anne Andreu 2004 France How Arnold Won The West Alex Cooke 2003 France, Great Britain Incident at Loch Ness Zak Penn 2003 USA L'Apprendista The Apprentice Giacomo Gatti 2004 Italia La Pattuglia Del Passo S. Giacomo The Patrol of the S. Giacomo Pass Ermanno Olmi 1954 Italia Les Accords D'Alba Alba Agreements Vincent Dieutre 2004 France Les Quinze Élèves Fifteen Students Jacques Meilleurat 2004 France Manon: Finestra 2 Manon: Window 2 Ermanno Olmi 1956 Italia Riccardo Bruno Bigoni 2004 Italia Sankofa Sankova Kevin Merz 2004 Switzerland Strade Blu. Storie Dalla Provincia Americana Blue Roads. Stories from the American Province Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini 2004 Italia Sun And Moon And The God Of Rain Anna Elisabetta Pitscheider 2004 India, Italia The Pornographer (A Love Story) Alan Wade 2004 USA There Is No Direction Sarah Bertrand 2004 France Turi Have to Lotty Wohlwend 2004 Switzerland Un'Altra Città Another City Carlo Ippolito 2003 Switzerland Vernissages Glazing Mathieu Lis 2003 France Visions Of Europe 2004 Union Européenne Walker Villi Hermann 2004 Switzerland
Open Doors Open Doors - Mekong
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Apsara Norodom Sihanouk 1966 Cambodia Ben Khong Chong Trong Ninh Luu 2002 Germany Chiec Chia Khoa Vang The Wine Division Lê Hoàng 2000 Vietnam Chung Cu Chung Linh Viet 1999 Vietnam Crepuscule Twilight Norodom Sihanouk 1969 Cambodia Cuoc Xe Dem Dem Chuyen Bui Thac 2002 Vietnam Doi Cat Two Cat Thanh Van Nguyen 1999 Vietnam Gai Nhay Thorns Lê Hoàng 2003 Vietnam Hanoi - 12 Ngay Dem HANOI - 12 Days Dem Dinh Hac Bui 2002 Vietnam Hanoi-Nua Dong Nam 46 Hanoi-Nua Dong Nam 1997 Vietnam Khuamvang Khong Mina Phanouvong Chanthone 1999 Laos Ky Uc Dien Bien Ky Uc Dien Well Do min Tuan 2004 Vietnam La Terre Des Ames Errantes The Land of Wandering Souls Rithy Panh 2002 France Markhang Phao Lenetene Som Ock Southiphonh 1994 Laos Moto Thief Lo K.M. 2004 Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk, Roi Cineaste Northern Sihanuk Jean-Baptiste Martin 1997 France Ombre Sur Angkor Shadow on Angkor Norodom Sihanouk 1967 Cambodia Thung Lung Hoang Van Valley Nhue Giang Pham 2002 Vietnam Thuong Nho Dong Que 1995 Vietnam Troi Lai Ngu Thuy Lai Lai Ngu Thuy Manh Thich Le 1998 Vietnam Un Soir Apres La Guerre One Evening after the War Rithy Panh 1997 France Vua Ba Rac King Ba Rac Minh Tuan Do 2003 Vietnam Yark Hai Lok Ni Khio Yark Hai Lok Ni Kahio Hongnakhone Thoumphala 1998 Laos
Leopards of Tomorrow Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani )
Leopards of Tomorrow - Francophonia Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Alice Et Moi Alice and Me Micha Wald 2004 Belgium Bè Kunko Be a Problem Cheick Fantamady Camara 2004 France, Guinea C'Est L'Histoire D'Un Belge This is the Story of a Belgian Rodrigo Litorriaga 2003 Belgium Cousines Cousins Lyes Salem 2003 France Dans L'Ombre In the Shadows Olivier Masset-Depasse 2004 Belgium, France, Switzerland De L'Autre Côté On the Other Side Nassim Amaouche 2003 France Dies Irae Day of Anger Alexandre Astier 2003 France Déformation Personelle Personal Deformation Jean-François Asselin 2003 Canada En Route Mauvaise Troupe On the Way Bad Troop Camille Bialestowski 2003 France Hit and Run Richard Jutras 2002 Canada Hymne À La Gazelle Gazelle Hymn Stéphanie Duvivier 2003 France Infini Infinity Guillaume Fortin 2002 Canada Koro Guldem Durmaz 2002 Belgium L'Autre Combat The Other Fight Emmanuel Ortner 2003 France L'Âge De Raison The Age of Reason Myriam Aziza 2004 France La Cérémonie The Ceremony Miryam Bouchard 2003 Canada La Séquence Silverstein The Silverstein Sequence Jean-Luc Gason 2003 Belgium Le Droit Chemin The Right Path Mathias Gokalp 2004 France Le Léopard Ne Se Déplace Jamais Sans Ses Tâches The Leopard Never Moves without Its Tasks Héléna Klotz 2003 France Le Pays Des Ours The Land of Bears Jean Baptiste Leonetti 2003 France Le Principe Du Canapé The Principle of the Sofa Mike Guermyet, Samuel Hercule 2003 France Le Secret De Fatima Le Secret of Fatima Karim Bensalah 2003 France, Algérie Léo Ingenious Nicolas Roy 2003 Canada Mamaman To the Mother Iao Lethem 2002 Belgium Matin Calme Calm Morning Annick Ghijzelings 2004 Belgium Noël Blank Jean-François Rivard 2003 Canada Pacotille Junk Eric Jameux 2003 France Poulet Cocotte Chicken Vincent Solignac, Martial Vallanchon 2003 France Safi La Petite Mère Safi the Little Mother Rasò Ganemtore 2004 Italia, Burkina Faso Francophonia Retrospective A Lucy Maki J. Algen, Radha-Rajen Jaganathen 1993 Mauritius Anton Webern Thierry Knauff 1991 Belgium Atomic Sakè Louise Archambault 1999 Canada Aélia Aerial Dominique De Rivaz 1985 Ch Bouzie Bourse Jacques Trabi 1996 Ivory Coast Crac Crack Frédéric Back 1981 Canada Essai D'Ouverture Opening Test Luc Moullet 1988 France Faux Contact Eric Jameux 2000 France Fois De Canard Et Coeur De Femme Time of Duck and Woman's Heart Stéphane Lapointe 2001 Canada Hammam Florence Miailhe 1991 France J'Adore Le Cinema I Love the Cinema Vincent Lannoo 1998 Belgium Jean-Fares Lyes Salem 2001 France Juke-Bar Martin Barry 1989 Canada Kuproquo Jean-François Rivard 1999 Canada L'Autre Celia The Other Celia Irène Jouanet 1991 France L'Horizon Perdu The Horizon Wasted Laïla Marrakchi 2000 France L'Interview Xavier Giannoli 1997 La Falaise The Cliff Faouzi Bensaïdi 1998 France La Nef The Nave Claude Champion 1988 Ch La Plage Beach Patrick Bokanowski 1992 France Le Cheval De Fer The Iron Horse Gérald Frydman 1984 Belgium Le Clandestin The Clandestine José Laplaine 1996 Congo Le Goûter De Bébé Baby Snack Richard Lacombe 2003 Canada Le Mariage En Papier Paper Wedding Stéphanie Duvivier 2000 France Le P'Tit Bal The Little Ball Philippe Decouflé 1993 France Le Pendule De Madame Foucault Madame Foucault's Pendulum Jean-Marc Vervoort 1994 Belgium Le Petit Chat Est Mort The Little Cat is Dead Fejria Deliba 1991 France Le Petit Garçon Qui Vola La Lune The Little Boy Who Flew the Moon Gisèle Ansorge, Ernest Ansorge 1988 Ch Le Symbole The Symbol Ahmadou Diallo 1994 Senegal Les Mots Magiques Magic Words Jean-Marc Vallée 1998 Canada Mi-Temps Half-Time Mathias Gokalp 2001 France Michu Denis Rabaglia 1993 Ch Omnibus Sam Karman 1992 France Pic Pic Andre Shoow The First Stéphane Aubier , Vincent Patar 1995 Belgium Point De Fuite Leakage Point Oliver Smolders 1988 Belgium Pourquoi For What Idrissa Ouédraogo 1981 Burkina Faso Premier Noël First Christmas 1999 France Raddem 1998 France Rue Tartarin Tartarin Street Okacha Touita 1980 Algérie Son Jour À Elle Her Day Frédéric Mermoud 1998 Ch Sortie De Bain Bathing Florence Henrard 1995 Belgium Surveiller Les Tortues Turtle Ines Rabadan 1999 Belgium Taxi Service Elie Khalifé, Alexandre Monnier 1996 Ch Tous À Table All at the Table Ursula Meier 2000 Ch Trois Fables A L'Usage Des Blancs En Afrique Three Fables for the Use of Whites in Africa Claude Gnakouri, Luis Marques 1998 France Tueur De Petits Poissons Small Fish Killer Alexandre Gavra 1997 France Un Certain Matin A Certain Morning Fanta Régina Nacro 1992 Burkina Faso Un Taxi Pour Aouzou A Taxi for Aouzou Issa Serge Coelo 1994 Chad È Pericoloso Sporgersi It is Dangerous to Lean Jaco Van Dormael 1984 Belgium Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani ) - Swiss Competition Original title English title Director(s) Year Production country 3Ème Sous-Sol 3rd Basement Olivier Girard 2003 Switzerland Bad News Christian Rösch 2004 Switzerland Berlin Backstage Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond 2003 Germany Black Lights Anthony Vouardoux 2003 Switzerland Chyenne Cheyenne Alexander Meier 2004 Switzerland Come Closer Pierre Monnard 2004 Switzerland Complotto Plot Thierry Moro 2003 Switzerland Demain J'Arrête! Tomorrow I Stop! Nicole Borgeat 2004 Switzerland Fenêtre Window Erik Bernasconi 2004 France Hoi Maya Hi Maya Claudia Lorenz 2004 Switzerland Il Re È Nudo The King is Naked Francesco Jost 2004 Switzerland La Fidanzata The Girlfriend Petra Volpe 2004 Switzerland La Taupe The Taupe Bernhard Zitz 2003 Switzerland Le Bord De La Table The Edge of the Table Britta Rindelaub 2003 Switzerland Marée Noire Tide Yves Pouliquen 2004 Switzerland, France Murphy Nicolas Veuthey 2004 Switzerland Paul Maillard, Facteur De Langue De Bois Paul Maillard, Wooden Language Postman Grégoire Mayor 2004 Switzerland Promis Juré Juror Tanoa Despland, Pauline Gygax 2004 Switzerland Solus Ad Solam Only the Only Mauro Boscarato 2004 Switzerland Tiger Erdolchen Tiger Erdoltel Moritz Gerber 2004 Switzerland Wackelkontakt Loose Contact Ralph Etter 2004 Switzerland, Germany
Human Rights Program Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Bab El Chams Yousry Nasrallah 2004 France, Egypt Born Into Brothels Zana Briski , Ross Kauffman 2004 USA Cautiva Captive Gaston Biraben 2003 Argentina, USA Citizen King Orlando Bagwell , Noland Walker2004 USA Das Leid Der Andern (The Pain Of Others) The Suffering of the Others (the Pain of Others) Peter Egloff 2004 Switzerland El Tren Blanco The White Train Nahuel Garcia, Ramiro Garcia, Sheila Perez Gimenez 2003 Argentina, Spain Garden Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz 2003 Israel, USA, Finland, Denmark Hungry For Monsters George Csicsery 2002 USA Mi Piace Lavorare (Mobbing) I Like to Work (Mobbing) Francesca Comencini 2003 Italia Nelson Mandela Accused No.1 Pascale Lamche 2004 South Africa Notre Musique Our Music 2003 Switzerland, France Persons Of Interest Alison MacLean, Tobias Perse 2003 USA S21, La Machine De Mort Khmère Rouge S21, the Khmer Red Death Machine Rithy Panh 2002 France Two For One Giovanni Pitscheider 2003 Italia V-Day: Until the Violence Stops Abby Epstein 2004 USA
In Progress Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country ... Si No Me Ahogo ... if I Don't Drown 2003 Argentina A Morir To Die Miguel Angel Rios 2004 Mexico A Night Of Prophecy Amar Kanwar 2002 India A Reverie Interrupted By The Police Rodney Graham 2003 A Season Outside Amar Kanwar 1997 India Abstree Davide Lombardi 2002 Italia Alpi In Movimento Alps in Motion Armin Linke 2004 Italia Ambient Davide Lombardi 2001 Italia Anomal Anomaly 2004 France Au Bout De Wingles At the End of Wingles Elsa Gaudefroy-Demombynes 2004 France City Self/Country Self Rodney Graham 2000 France Da Qui Sopra Il Mare From Here above the Sea Mauro Santini 2004 Italia Dammi I Colori Give Me the Colors Anri Sala 2003 Albanie Devenir Become 2003 France Dust 2004 Italia Filter City 2003 Switzerland Filter City 2003 Switzerland Flor Da Baixa Bass Flower Mauro Santini 2004 Italia Ilusiones De Realidad - Los Trucajes Cinematograficos De Emilio Ruiz Reality Illusions - Emilio Ruiz's Cinematographic Trucages Spain Into Film2 For Painting - People I Don'T Know Hans-Hermann Koopmann 2004 Italia, Germany Journey Into Fear Stan Douglas 2001 Canada, USA La Rose De Jéricho Jericho's Rose Yael Perlman 2004 France Mehmet And Mehmet Paolo Colombo, Michela Guberti 2004 Italia Modelling 1966 - Fragility 2003 Vittorio Armentano Italia Nina Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2004 Italia Obras Works 2004 France Point D'Eau Water Point Oleg Tcherny 2004 France Polyeucte Christophe Atabekian 2003 France Radio Ghost Laurent Grasso 2004 France, China Reve De Cheval Horseshoe Ariane Michel 2004 Seamlessness Nadia Reich 2004 France Site Specific_Roma 04 Olivo Barbieri 2004 Italia Staub Monica Bonvicini, Jan Ralske 2003 Germany Suspiria Sigh Stan Douglas 2002 Canada, USA Third Generation (Ascher Family) Mark Wallinger 2003 Great Britain To Remember Amar Kanwar 2003 India Tossico Della Luce Light Toxic Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2003 Italia Vb52 Vanessa Beecroft 2003 Italia, USA Vexation Island Rodney Graham 1997 We Have Decided Not To Die Daniel Askill 2003 Australia
Newsfront Retrospective Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 1974, Une Partie De Campagne 1974, Part of the Campaign Raymond Depardon France Ace In The Hole / The Big Carnival Billy Wilder 1951 USA Alice In Den Städten Alice in the Cities Wim Wenders 1973 Germany Anaparastassi Representation 1970 Greece Aro Tolbukhin. En La Mente Del Asesino Tolbukhin Aro. in the Murderer's Mind Isaac P. Racine, Agustí Villaronga , Lydia Zimmermann 2002 Mexico, Spain Big Town - Father And Son 1953 USA Call Northside 777 Henry Hathaway 1948 USA Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 USA Control Room Jehane Noujaim 2004 USA Deadline U.S.A. Richard Brooks 1952 USA Der Teufelsreporter The Daredevil Reporter Ernst Laemmle 1929 Germany Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan Two Men in Manhattan Jean-Pierre Melville 1959 France Die Fälschung Circle of Deceit Volker Schlöndorff 1981 Germany, France Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Volker Schlöndorff , Margarethe von Trotta 1975 Germany Fantômas Contre Fantômas Fantômas Against Fantômas Louis Feuillade 1914 France Five Star Final Melvin Le Roy 1931 USA Foreign Correspondent Alfred Hitchcock 1940 USA Gei Wo Yi Ge Jia Give Me A Home Tsai Ming-liang 1991 Taiwan Grauzone Fredi M. Murer 1979 Switzerland Hai Jiao Tian Ya Tsai Ming-liang 1989 Taiwan His Girl Friday Howard Hawks 1940 USA Hoa Binh 1970 France I Tigi A Gibellina. Racconto Per Ustica The Tigi in Gibellina. Story for Ustica Davide Ferrario 2002 Italia Il Caso Mattei The Mattei Affair Francesco Rosi 1972 Italia Ilaria Alpi - Il Più Crudele Dei Giorni Ilaria Alpi - The Most Cruel of the Days Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani 2003 Italia Invasion Usa Alfred A. Green 1952 USA Inviati Speciali Special Sent Romolo Marcellini 1943 Italia Jeux De Rôles À Carpentras Role Games in Carpentras Jean-Louis Comolli 1998 France Judith Therpauve Patrice Chéreau 1978 France Kärlek Och Journalistik Love and Journalism Mauritz Stiller 1916 Sweden L'Affaire Dreyfus The Dreyfus Affair Georges Méliès 1899 France L'Ambassade - Film 8Mm Trouvé Dans Une Ambassade The Embassy - 8mm Film Found in an Embassy Chris Marker 1973 France La Petite Vendeuse De Soleil The Small Sun Salesman Djibril Kebe 1999 Senegal, Switzerland, France Le Joli Mai Joli May Pierre Lhomme , Chris Marker 1963 France Le Juge Et L'Historien - L'Affaire Sofri The Judge and the Historian - The Sofri Affair Jean-Louis Comolli 2001 France, Italia Le Mystère Des Roches De Kador The Mystery of Kador's Rocks Léonce Perret 1912 France Loin Du Vietnam - Caméra-Oeil Far from Vietnam - Camera -Oeil Jean-Luc Godard 1967 France Making a Living Henry Lehrman 1914 USA Medium Cool Haskell Wexler 1969 USA Meet John Doe Frank Capra 1941 USA Nedamatgah Namatgah Kamran Shirdel 1965 Iran Nema-Ye Nazdik (Close Up) Close Up Abbas Kiarostami 1990 Iran Newsfront Phillip Noyce 1978 Australia Nothing Sacred William A. Wellman 1937 USA Obzalovaný Obsolete Ján Kadár , Elmar Klos 1964 Czechoslovakia Opération Lune Dark Side of the Moon William Karel 2002 France Ostanovilsya Poyezd The Train Stopped Vadim Abdrashitov 1982 Russia Park Row Samuel Fuller 1952 USA Raspad Decomposition 1990 Russia, USA Roger & Me Michael Moore 1989 USA Salvador Allende Patricio Guzmán 2004 Chile, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain Screen Directors Playhouse - Rookie Of The Year John Ford 1955 USA Segell Ikhtifa Registration Elia Suleiman 1996 Palestine Shubun Main Sentence Akira Kurosawa 1950 Japan Sob Sister Alfred Santell 1931 USA Stranger on the Third Floor Boris Ingster 1940 USA Tanner '88: Bagels With Bruce Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: Child'S Play Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: For Real Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: Moonwalker And Bookbag Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: Reality Check Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: Something Borrowed, Something New Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: The Boiler Room Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: The Dark Horse Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: The Girlfriend Factor Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: The Great Escape Robert Altman USA Tanner '88: The Night Of The Twinkies Robert Altman USA Tehran Paietakhte Iran Ast Kamran Shirdel Iran The Battle of San Pietro John Huston 1943 USA The Big Clock John Farrow 1948 USA The Captive City Robert Wise 1952 USA The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola 1974 USA The Day the Earth Caught Fire Val Guest 1961 Great Britain The Front Page Lewis Milestone 1931 USA The Kid Reporter Alfred J. Goulding 1923 USA The Last Hurrah John Ford 1958 USA The Lawless Joseph Losey 1949 USA The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Ford 1962 USA The Mystery of the Yellow Room Émile Chautard 1919 USA The Philadelphia Story George Cukor 1940 USA The Quiet American Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1958 USA The Quiet American Phillip Noyce 2002 USA The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Donnacha O'Briain 2003 Ireland The Story of G.I. Joe William A. Wellman 1945 USA The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris 1988 USA The War Game Peter Watkins 1964 Great Britain Tout Va Bien Everything is Fine Jean-Luc Godard , Jean-Pierre Gorin 1971 France Un Shab Che Barun Umad The Corpse is the Body Kamran Shirdel Iran Under Fire Roger Spottiswoode 1983 USA Uzlasma Disconnex Oguzhan Tercan 1992 Türkiye Videogrammes Einer Revolution Video of a Revolution Harun Farocki , Andrei Ujică 1992 Germany Wag the Dog Barry Levinson 1997 USA While the City Sleeps Fritz Lang 1956 USA Wire Service - Hideout Alvin Ganzer 1956 USA Wo Xin Ren Shi De Peng You My New Friends Tsai Ming-liang 1995 Taiwan Xiao Hai The Kid Tsai Ming-liang 1991 Taiwan
Video Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country About The House Jacopo Gassman 2004 Italia Border Laura Waddington 2004 Great Britain, France Conversations De Salon 1 - 2 - 3 Living Room Conversations 1 - 2 - 3 Danielle Arbid 2004 France Csa: The Confederate States Of America Kevin Willmott 2003 USA Down to the Bone Debra Granik 2004 USA Egoshooter Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe 2004 Germany Karim Patwa'S Spaceship Karim Patwa 2004 Switzerland Krajina Mého Srdce The Landscape of My Heart Jan Němec 2004 Czech Republic La Guerra De Los Gimnasios THE GYM WAR Diego Lerman 2004 Argentina Lettre Du Dernier Étage Letter from the Top Floor Olivier Ciechelski 2004 France Manolo Recicla (El Señor De Los Carros) Manolo Recycla (the Lord of the Carros) Manolo González 2004 Spain On The Wing Tim White-Sobieski 2003 USA Rua De Mao Dupla DUPER MAO STREET Cao Guimarães 2004 Brazil Scirocco! Cédric Putaggio 2004 France Sindrome Syndrome Liberto Rabal 2003 Spain Sseon Day Seoul/Sund@Y Seoul Myung-Hoon Oh 2004 South Korea The Franklin Abraham Jonah Freeman 2003 Switzerland, USA
Parallel Sections
Critics Week The Semaine de la Critique is an independent section, created in 1990 by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists in partnership with the Locarno Film Festival.[6]
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Calling Hedy Lamarr Georg Misch 2004 Germany, Austria, Great Britain Die Blutritter The Bloodrakers Douglas Wolfsperger 2004 Germany Ferien Im Duett Holidays in the Duet Dieter Gränicher 2004 Switzerland Gå Loss Unload Erik Bäfving, Magnus Gertten 2004 Sweden Mensageiras Da Luz-Parteiras Da Amazônia Messengers of Light-Party of the Amazon Evaldo Mocarzel 2003 Brazil Nocaut Knockout Stefano Knuchel , Ivan Nurchis2004 Switzerland Touch the Sound Thomas Riedelsheimer 2004 Germany
Swiss Cinema Swiss Cinema Center Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Joyeux Noël Félix! Merry Christmas Félix! Izabela Rieben, Sami Ben Youssef 2004 Switzerland Cinema Rediscovered Abxang Mirjam von Arx Der Doppelte Matthias Und Seine Töchter The Double Matthias and His Daughters Emile Edwin Reinert, Sigfrit Steiner 1941 Switzerland Wilder Urlaub Wild Vacation Franz Schnyder 1943 Switzerland
Appellations Swiss Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Cattolica Catholic Rudolph Jula 2003 Switzerland, Germany Garçon Stupide Stupid Boy Lionel Baier 2004 Switzerland Halleluja! Der Herr Ist Verrückt Halleluja! the Lord is Crazy Alfredo Knuchel 2004 Switzerland Hildes Reise Hildes Journey Christof Vorster 2003 Switzerland Je Suis Ton Père I Am your Father Michel Rodde 2003 Switzerland L'Homme Sans Ombre The Man without Shadow Georges Schwizgebel 2004 Switzerland, Canada Paul S'En Va Paul Leaves Alain Tanner 2004 Switzerland Sternenberg Christoph Schaub 2003 Switzerland Strähl Manuel Flurin Hendry 2004 Switzerland, Germany Verflixt Verliebt Darn in Love Peter Luisi 2004 Switzerland, Germany Ässhäk - Geschichten Aus Der Sahara Oßhäk - Stories from the Sahara Ulrike Koch 2003 Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands
Official Awards
International Competition Golden Leopard: Private by Saverio CostanzoSilver Leopard: Dastan Natamam by Hassan Yektapanah, En Garde by Ayse PolatSpecial Jury Prize: Tony Takitani by Jun IchikawaLeopard for Best Actress: Plinar Ericin and Maria Kwiatkowsky in EN GARDELeopard for Best Actor: Mohammad Bakri in PRIVATE
Piazza Grande Prix du Public UBS: Havala Hasurit / The Syrian Bride by Eran Riklis
Leopards of Tomorrow competition Golden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize, Swiss Competition: Chyenne by Alexander MeierSilver Leopard, Eastman Kodak Company, Swiss Competition: Wackelkontakt by Ralph Etter“Action Light” Prize for the Best Swiss Newcomer: Paul Maillard, Facteur De Langue De Bois by Grégoire MayorFilm and Video Subtitling Prize, Swiss Competition: Demain J’ARRÊTE! by Nicole BorgeatGolden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize, “The French-speaking world” Competition: Dans L’OMBRE by Olivier Masset-DepasseSilver Leopard, Eastman Kodak Company Prize, “The French-speaking world” Competition: Wackelkontakt by Ralph EtterSpecial Mention, “The French-speaking world” Competition: Alice Et Moi by Micha Wald
“Cinema e Gioventù” – Leopards of Tomorrow Jury Youth Jury Prize, “The French-speaking world” Competition: Alice Et Moi by Micha Wald
Youth Jury Youth Jury Prize, Swiss Competition: Wackelkontakt by Ralph EtterFirst Prize, Youth Jury Prize: Forgiveness by Ian GabrielSecond Prize, Youth Jury: Tony Takitani by Jun IchikawaThird Prize, Youth Jury: Okhotnik by Serik Aprymov“The environnement is the quality of life” Prize: Gardien De Buffles by Minh Nguyen-Vô
Video Competition Jury Golden Leopard Video C.P Company: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Conversation De Salon 1-2-3 by Danielle Arbid
Ecumenical Jury Oecumenical Jury Prize: Yasmin by Kenny GlenaanSpecial Mention, Oecumenical Jury: Private by Saverio Costanzo
FIPRESCI Jury FIPRESCI Prize: Tony Takitani by Jun Ichikawa
CICAE – Art & Essai Award Jury CICAE Prize: Okhotnik by Serik Aprymov
Human Rights Award Jury Human Rights Prize: Forgiveness by Ian GabrielSpecial Mention, Human Rights Prize: Citizen King by Noland Walker and Orlando Bagwell
NETPAC Prize: Dastan Natamam by Hassan Yektapanah, Okhotnki by Serik Aprymov
FICC Jury Don Quijote Prize: Pic Pic Andre Shoow The First by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
SRG SSR idée suisse | Semaine de la critique Prize SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize, Critics Week: Touch The Sound by Thomas RiederlsheimerSpecial Mention, Critic Week: Calling Hedy Lamarr by Georg MischSource:[7] [8]
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