Film festival in Locarno, Switzerland
The 58th Locarno Film Festival was held from 3 to 13 August 2005 in Locarno , Switzerland.[1] There were 18 films in competition with a total of 38 countries represented across the entire festival.[1] The opening film was The Rising - Ballad Of Mangal Pandey Ketan Mehta , which was screened on the Piazza Grande, the open-air theater.[2] There was a retrospective of the work of Orson Wells and one for the work of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro , who served on the festival jury this year. Storaro along with John Malkovich and Susan Sarandon received excellence awards from the festival.[2] While, the Leopard of Honor was awarded to Abbas Kiarostami , Wim Wenders , Terry Gilliam for their career achievements.[1]
This was Irene Bignardi's last year at the festival after serving five years as the artistic director. The following year her position was filled by Federic Marie.[3] [4]
The Golden Leopard , the festival's top prize, was awarded to Nine Lives Rodrigo García , which had its international premiere at Locarno and was the only American film in competition.[1]
Official Jury
Sections The following films were screened in these sections:[5]
Piazza Grande
International Competition International Competition
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 20 Centímetros 20 Centimeters Ramón Salazar 2005 Spain 3 Grad Kaelter 3 Degrees Kaelter Florian Hoffmeister 2005 Germany Antarmahal - Views From The Inner Chamber Rituparno Ghosh 2005 India Face Addict Edo Bertoglio 2005 Italia, Switzerland Familia Family Louise Archambault 2005 Canada Fratricide Fratricidal Yilmaz Arslan 2005 Germany, Luxembourg, France Keller-Teenage Wasteland Eva Urthaler 2005 Austria, Germany, Italia La Guerra Di Mario Mario's War Antonio Capuano 2005 Italia La Neuvaine The Novena Bernard Émond 2005 Canada Ma Hameh Khoubim - We Are All Fine Bijan Mirbagheri 2005 Iran MirrorMask Dave McKean 2004 Great Britain, USA Nine Lives Rodrigo García 2004 USA Riviera Anne Villacèque 2005 France Snow White 2005 Switzerland, Austria The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes Brothers Quay 2005 Great Britain, Germany, France Un Couple Parfait A Perfect Couple Nobuhiro Suwa 2005 France, Japan Vendredi Ou Un Autre Jour - S(C)Eptique : Deuxième Partie : L'Orgueil Friday or Another Day - S (c) Eptic: Second Part: Pride Yvan Le Moine 2005 Belgium, France, Italia, Slovakia
Filmmakers of the Present The Concorso Cineasti del Presente , also known as the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, showcases first and second feature films from emerging filmmakers.[6]
Filmmakers of the Present
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 9M2 Pour Deux 9m2 for Two Joseph Césarini, Jimmy Glasberg 2005 France Amour Neutre Neutral Love Pierre Coulibeuf 2005 France Atos Dos Homens - Work In Progress - 2005 Acts of Men - Work in Progress - 2005 Kiko Goifman 2005 Brazil, Germany Cartographie 2 / Les Arches Cartography 2 / the Arches Philippe Saire 2002 Switzerland Cartographie 5 / Rue Centrale 17-19 Cartography 5 / Rue Centrale 17-19 Alain Margot 2004 Switzerland Cartographie 6 / La Vallee De La Jeunesse Cartography 6 / Youth Vallee Fernand Melgar 2005 Switzerland Chère Jacqueline... Dear Jacqueline ... Dominique De Rivaz 2005 Switzerland Delo Osvobaja The Work of Liberating Damjan Kozole 2005 Slovenia En La Cama In Bed Matías Bize 2005 Chile, Germany Frankie Fabienne Berthaud 2005 France Fuori Vena Out of Vein Tekla Taidelli 2005 Italia Gas Luciano Melchionna 2005 Italia Gisela Isabelle Stever 2005 Germany Historias Del Desencanto Stories of Disenchantment Alejandro Valle 2005 Mexico In Un Altro Paese In Another Country Marco Turco 2005 Italia, France J'Ai Besoin D'Air I Need Air Natacha Samuel 2005 France L'Accord The Agreement Béatrice Guelpa, Nicolas Wadimoff 2005 Switzerland, France Le Démon Du Passage The Demon of the Passage Pierre Coulibeuf 1995 France Lonesome Jim Steve Buscemi 2005 USA Lost Paradise Pierre Coulibeuf 2002 France Monobloc Luis Ortega 2005 Argentina, Netherlands Nuit Noire Dark Night Oliver Smolders 2005 Belgium, Netherlands Per Sempre Forever Alina Marazzi 2005 Switzerland Petit Matin Early in the Morning S. Louis 2005 France Sangue - La Morte Non Esiste Blood - Death Does not Exist Libero De Rienzo 2005 Italia The Passenger François Rotger 2005 France, Canada, Japan Vandana Lina Bertucci 2004 USA White Terror Daniel Schweizer 2005 Switzerland, France, Germany, Finland Filmmakers of the Present - Video Original title English title Director(s) Year Production country Piccolo Sole. Vita E Morte Di Henri Crolla Small Sun. Henri's Life and Death Collapses Nino Bizzarri 2005 Italia
Open Doors Open Doors - Maghreb
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Casablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas In Casablanca the Angels Do not Fly Mohamed Asli 2004 Morocco Ali Zaoua Nabil Ayouch 2000 Morocco Aliénations Alienations Malek Bensmaïl 2003 Algérie Cousines Cousins Lyes Salem 2003 Algérie, France El Kotbia The Kotbia Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba 2002 Tunisia Histoire D'Une Rencontre History of a Meeting 1980 Algérie Jawhara - Fille De Prison Jawhara - Prison Daughter Saâd Chraibi 2004 Morocco Kanzaman Bloodzen Barbara Galanti 2005 Italia Keïd Ensa Farida Benlyazid 1999 Morocco Khorma, Le Crieur De Nouvelles Khorma, the Crier of News Jilani Saadi 2002 Tunisia L'Arche Du Désert The Desert Ark Mohamed Chouikh 1998 Algérie L'Enfant Endormi The Sleeping Child Jean-Jacques Andrien 2004 Morocco La Chambre Noire The Dark Room Hassan Benjelloun 2004 Morocco La Trace The Trace Néjia Ben Mabrouk Tunisia Le Prince Qui Contemplait Son Âme/Bab'Aziz The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul/Bab'Aziz Nacer Khemir 2005 Tunisia Le Thé D'Ania Ania's Tea Saïd Ould Khelifa 2004 Algérie Machaho Fisher Belkacem Hadjadj 1996 Algérie Mémoire En Détention Detention Memory Jillali Ferhati 2004 Morocco No Man'S Love Nidhal Chatta 2000 Tunisia Oranges Mouzahem Yahia 2003 Algérie, France Poupées D'Argile Clay Dolls Nouri Bouzid 2002 Tunisia Satin Rouge Red Satin Raja Amari 2002 Tunisia Tarfaya Hinderer Daoud Aoulad-Syad 2005 Morocco, France Tenja Hassan Legzouli 2004 France, Morocco Un Rêve Algérien An Algerian Dream Jean-Pierre Lledo 2003 Algérie Viva Cuba Long Live Cuba Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti 2005 France, Cuba
Leopards of Tomorrow Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani )
Special Program Special Program - Leopards of Tomorrow Avant Le Petit Déjeuner Before Breakfast Cristi Puiu 1995 Switzerland Childish Nadia Probst 2004 Switzerland Corpo A Corpo Melee Giada Ghiringhelli 2004 Switzerland Disko Bay Disco Bay Aurélie Doutre 2004 Switzerland L'Hotel Balzac Sarah Gabay 1998 Switzerland La Donna Che Si Commuoveva Troppo The Woman Who Was Too Moved Thierry Moro 2005 Switzerland La Grande Ruine The Great Ruin Gaëlle Rouard 1996 Switzerland La Piscine The Pool Anita Holdener 1997 Switzerland Les Courts De Kino Kabaret A Locarno. Exercice Collectif De Cinema Spontane - Auteurs Divers Kino Kabaret's: Short Films in Locarno. Collective Exercise of Spontaneous Cinema Various Authors Mort En Exil Died in Exile Mutlu Saray Ayten 2002 Switzerland Pluk Pick Iuri Rigo 2001 Switzerland Qui Pleure? Who is Crying? Demis Herenger 2000 Switzerland Screaming Jesus Barbara Lehnhoff 2005 Switzerland Self Portrait-Trilogia Self Portrait-Trilogy Claudine Appenzeller 2004 Switzerland Verofalso Exercise pratique réalisé par les élèves de 3eme du CISA, giuidé par Gianfilippo Pedote 2005 Switzerland
African Competition Leopards of Tomorrow - Africa Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Africains Poids Moyens Africans Average Weight Daniel Cattier 2004 Belgium Afrique Annees 60 Africa 60s Felicité Wouassi 2003 France Aligato Spark Maka Sidibé 2003 France Amal Ali Benkirane 2004 France Au-Déla Du Temps Time of Time Jean-Chris Banange Semutakirwa 2004 France Beit Min Lahm Work Min Lame Rami Abdul Jabbar 2005 Egypt By Foot Kai Adam 2004 Germany Clandestin Clandestine Philippe Larue 2003 France Enharda Talateen November Mahmood Soliman 2005 Egypt Exoticore Nicolas Provost 2004 Belgium Ibali The Story Harold Holscher 2003 South Africa L'Évangile Du Cochon Créole The Gospel of the Creole Pig Michelange Quay 2004 France La Femme Seule The Woman Alone Brahim Fritah 2005 France Lahna Lalhih Rachid Boutounes 2004 France Manmuswak Manmuskaq Patrick Bernier, Olive Martin 2005 France Mitterand Est Mort Mitterrand is Dead Hedi Sassi 2003 France Pour La Nuit For the Night Isabelle Boni-Claverie 2004 France Pourquoi ? For What ? Sokhna Amar 2005 Senegal Rencontre En Ligne Online Meeting Adama Roamba 2005 France Riding With Sugar Sunu Gonera 2005 South Africa Rumeur, Etc. Rumor, Etc. Mohamed Latrèche 2003 France Sa/X Gilli Apter 2004 South Africa Signe D'Appartenance Membership 2004 France The One That Fits Inside The Bathtub Inger Smith 2004 South Africa Visa Ibrahim Letaief 2004 Tunisia Yom El-Ethneen Tamer El Said 2004 Egypt Africa Retrospective Aid El Kebir Big Feast Karin Albou 1998 France Black Sushi Dean Blumberg 2002 South Africa Bol D'Amour Love Bowl Jacques Trabi 2000 France C' Était Pas La Guerre It Was not War Alexandrine Brisson 2002 France Chiens Errants Wandering Dogs Jean-Jacques Andrien 1995 Belgium Feizou Laowai Fe i Walk LA o Outside Josef Kumbela 1998 France Inja Dog Steven Pasvolsky 2001 Australia L'Éxposé The Exposed Ismael ferroukhi 1992 France La Poule Aux Oeufs D'Or The Golden Egg Hen Bassec ba Kobhio 1996 Cameroon Le Chameau Et Les Batons Flottants The Camel and the Floating Sticks Abderrahmane Sissako 1996 Mauritania Le Jeu The Game Abderrahmane Sissako 1990 Mauritania Le Retour De La Main Habile The Skillful Hand Return Tahirou Tasséré Ouédraogo 2002 Burkina Faso Les Pierres Bleues Du Désert The Blue Stones of the Desert Nabil Ayouch 1993 France Lilly Marwan Hamed 2000 Egypt One Sunday Morning Manu Kurewa 1996 Great Britain Petite Lumière Small Light Alain Gomis 2002 Senegal Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning Tebogo Mahlatsi 1999 South Africa Quand Le Soleil Fait Tomber Les Moineaux When the Sun Drops the Sparrows Hassan Legzouli 1999 France Raya Zulfah Ott-Sallies 2001 South Africa Rue Bleue Blue Street Chad Chenouga 1998 France Souko Warehouse Issiaka Konaté 1998 Burkina Faso The Foreigner Zola Mazeko 1997 South Africa The Sky In Her Eyes Madoda Ncayiyana, Ouita Smit 2002 South Africa Ubuntu'S Wounds Sechaba Morojele 2002 USA Une Femme Pour Souleymane A Woman for Souleymane Dyana Gaye 2000 Senegal West Al Balad Amir Ramses 2000 Egypt Yom El-Ahad El-Aadi Normal Sunday Saad Hendawy 1995 Egypt
Swiss Competition Swiss Competition – Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani ) Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Concluzie Conclusion Gabriel Sandru 2005 Switzerland Der Ausflug The Excursion Christina Zulauf 2004 Switzerland Der Skifahrer The Skier Martin Guggisberg 2005 Switzerland Des Bras Trop Courts Too Short Arms Marie-Eve Hildbrand 2004 Switzerland Domaine Privé Private Domain Rafael Wolf 2005 Switzerland Dors Sophie, Dors Zoya Anastassova 2005 Switzerland Déjeuner Sur L'Eau Lunch on the Water Isabelle Blanc 2005 Switzerland Frohe Ostern Happy Easter Ulrich Schaffner 2005 Switzerland Geneva And Me Bernie Forster 2004 Switzerland Haru Ichiban-Frühligssturm Haru Ichiban Spring Tower Aya Domenig 2005 Switzerland Herr Goldstein Micha Lewinsky 2005 Switzerland Kalte Haut Cold Skin Sebastian Kutzli 2005 Germany La Limace The Slug Anthony Vouardoux, Tania Zambrano Ovalle 2005 Switzerland Le Beau-Frère The Brother-in-Law Thierry Moro 2005 Switzerland Le Tramway D'Andréa Andréa's Tramway Alex Iordachescu, Alexandre Lordachescu 2005 Switzerland Romance Mayonnaise 2005 Switzerland Staila Crudanta Stila Rudy Pascal Bergamin 2005 Switzerland Terra Incognita Unknown Land Peter Volkart 2005 Switzerland Visite Medicale Medical Visit Felix von Muralt 2005 Switzerland
Retrospective - Orson Welles Retrospective - The Magnificent Welles Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 12 + 1 The Thirteen Chairs Nicolas Gessner 1969 Italia Black Magic Gregory Ratoff 1949 USA Brunnen Spring Kristian Petri 2005 Sweden Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles 1965 Spain, Switzerland Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 USA Citizen of America: Orson Welles and the Ballad of Isaac Woodard (Work in Progress) Robert Fischer 2005 Germany Commercials & Specials Orson Welles Compulsion Richard Fleischer 1959 USA Mr. Arkadin Orson Welles 1955 USA Crack in the Mirror Richard Fleischer 1960 USA David E Golia David and Goliath Richard Pottier 1959 Italia, USA F for Fake Orson Welles 1973 France, Germany, Iran Filming Othello Orson Welles 1978 USA, Germany Filming The Trial Orson Welles 1981 USA Hit-A-Sin Rain Ann Goodman, H. Hoffman 1978 I'll Never Forget What's'isname Michael Winner 1967 Great Britain Jane Eyre Robert Stevenson 1943 USA Journey Into Fear Norman Foster , Orson Welles 1943 USA King Lear Versions Andrew McCullough, Orson Welles USA L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Ours The Man Who Saw the Man Who Saw the Bear André S. Labarthe 1989 France La Décade Prodigieuse Ten Days' Wonder Claude Chabrol 1971 Italia, France La ricotta Pier Paolo Pasolini 1963 Italia, France Linguagem De Orson Welles Orson Welles Language Rogério Sganzerla 1991 Brazil London Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Lord Mountdrago George More O'Ferrall 1954 Great Britain Lucy Meets Orson Welles James V. Kern 1956 USA Madrid: The Bullfight Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Malpertuis Harry Kümel 1971 Belgium Man In The Shadow Jack Arnold 1958 USA O Signo Do Caos The Sign of Chaos Rogério Sganzerla 2003 Brazil Orson Welles En El Pais De Don Quijote Orson Welles in Don Quijote's Country Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues 2000 Spain Orson Welles On Stage In Dublin Orson Welles 1960 Great Britain Orson Welles Sells His Soul To The Devil Jay Bushman 1999 USA Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill Orson Welles 1978 USA Orson Welles Uncut Francoise Levie 2005 Belgium Orson Welles À La Cinématheque Francaise Orson Welles with French Cinematheca Guy Seligman 1982 France Orson Welles' Jeremiah Orson Welles 1978 USA Orson Welles' London Orson Welles Great Britain, Italia Orson Welles' Shylock Orson Welles USA, Italia, Spain Orson Welles' Sketch Book Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book I Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book II Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book III Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book IV Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book V Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' Sketch Book VI Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Orson Welles' The Golden Honeymoon Orson Welles 1970 USA Orson Welles' Vienna Orson Welles 1969 Austria, Italia Orson Welles François Reichenbach , Frédéric Rossif 1968 France Othello Orson Welles 1952 USA, Italia, Morocco Paris After Dark Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain Prince Of Foxes Henry King 1949 USA Return to Glennascaul Hilton Edwards 1951 Great Britain RKO 281 Benjamin Ross 1999 Great Britain In the Land of Don Quixote Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote I: Itinerario Andaluso (Andalusian Itinerary)Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote II: Spagna Santa (Holy Week in Spain) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote III: La Fiera Di San Fermin (The San Fermin Fair) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote IV: L'Encierro Di Pamplona (The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote V: Le Cantine Di Jerez (Canteen of Jerez) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote VI: Siviglia (Seville) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote VII: Feria De Abril A Siviglia (Seville April Fair ) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote VIII: Tempo Di Flamenco (Flamenco Time) Orson Welles 1961 Italia In the Land of Don Quixote IX: Roma E Oriente In Spagna (Rome and the East on Spain) Orson Welles 1961 Italia Rosabella: La Storia Italiana Di Orson Welles Rosabella: The Italian History of Orson Welles Gianfranco Giagni, Ciro Giorgini 1993 Italia Someone To Love Henry Jaglom 1987 USA Tepepa Blood and Guns Giulio Petroni 1968 Italia, Spain The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles Christophe Cognet 1999 France The Fountain of Youth Orson Welles 1956 USA The Hearts of Age William Vance, Orson Welles 1934 USA The Immortal Story Orson Welles 1968 France The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles 1948 USA The Land of Basques I Orson Welles 1955 Great Britain The Magnificent Ambersons Freddie Fleck, Jack Moss, Orson Welles , Robert Wise 1942 USA The Magnificent Orson Welles Jeff Meyers 2002 USA The Night that Panicked America Joseph Sargent 1975 USA The Orson Welles Show Orson Welles 1978 USA The Orson Welles Story Leslie Megahey 1982 Great Britain The Other Side of Welles Daniel Rafaelic, Leon Rizmaul 2005 Croatia The Southern Star Sidney Hayers 1969 Great Britain, France The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh Orson Welles 1984 USA The Stranger Orson Welles 1946 USA The Third Man Carol Reed 1949 Great Britain Shadowing The Third Man Frederic Baker 2005 Great Britain, Austria, France Treasure Island John Hough 1972 Great Britain The Trial Orson Welles 1962 France, Italia, Germany, Yugoslavia Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958 USA Viva Italia Orson Welles 1956 USA
Human Rights Program Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country After Innocence Jessica Sanders 2004 USA Alive In Limbo Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, Erica Marcus, Tina Naccache 2004 USA, Lebanon, Iceland Article 61 Mahvash Sheikholeslami 2005 Iran Bride Kidnapping In Kyrgyzstan Petr Lom 2004 Kyrgyzstan Et Sheaava Nafshi - Keep Not Silent Ilil Alexander 2004 Israel Faces Of Change Michèle Stephenson 2005 USA, Brazil, Mauritania, India, Bulgaria, South Africa In The Morning Danielle Laurie 2004 USA L'Abbraccio Di Barbara Barbara's Embrace Annamaria Gallone 2005 Italia Land Mines Denis O'Rourke 2005 Australia, Afghanistan Little Birds Takeharu Watai 2005 Japan, Iraq Living Rights: Lena Duco Tellegen 2004 Netherlands Living Rights: Roy Duco Tellegen 2004 Netherlands Living Rights: Toti Duco Tellegen 2004 Netherlands Living Rights: Yoshi Duco Tellegen 2004 Netherlands Paint Me A Life Stefano Knuchel , Ivan Nurchis2005 Switzerland Pinocchio Nero Pinocchio Black Angelo Loy 2005 Italia Powerful Men Fulvio Bernasconi 2005 Switzerland The Stranger Sainath Choudhury 2004 India Troop 1500 Karen Bernstein, Ellen Spiro 2005 USA Voices Of Iraq Habitants d'Iraq 2004 Iraq, USA
In Progress Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 11.45.03 Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2004 Italia 3' Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Doug Aitken, Yang Fudong, Isaac Julien , Sarah Morris, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, Markus Schinwald, RothStauffenberg 2004 Germany A Serpente To Serpente Sandro Aguilar 2005 Portugal All People Is Plastic Harald Hund 2005 Austria Baltimore Isaac Julien 2003 Great Britain Christo In Paris Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke , Albert Maysles 1990 USA Christo'S Valley Curtain Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles 1974 USA Closer To Fall Tim White-Sobieski 2005 USA Correspondances Correspondence Christophe Atabekian 2005 France E=Nyc2 Kimi Takesue 2005 USA Erni Land Edgar Honetschläger 2005 Austria F For Fake Filipa César 2005 Germany Gelo Verticale Vertical Frost Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2004 Italia Invisible Cities No1 Jonas Dahlberg 2004 Sweden Islands Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin 1986 USA L'Art De La Fugue The Art of Fugue Altinai Petrovitch Njegosh 2005 France Le Corps Silencieux The Silent Body Emmanuel Vantillard 2005 France Les Inconstances Du Papillon The Inconstances of the Butterfly Martin Le Chevallier 2005 France Ligne Verte Green Line Laurent Mareschal 2005 France Looking For Alfred Johan Grimonprez 2005 Belgium, Great Britain Met Losse Handen Loose Hands Marijke Van Warmerdam 2004 Netherlands Nachtnebel Night Fog Barbara Schärf 2005 Austria Notte 266 Night 266 Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2004 Italia Numbered Christina Benz 2005 Switzerland Paradise Omeros Isaac Julien 2003 Great Britain Paris-Mediterannee Pierre Reimer 2004 France Pending Christina Benz 2004 Switzerland, Great Britain Petroleo Mexico MEXICO PETROLEO Roberto Paci Daló 2005 Italia Plus Loin Que La Nuit Further than Night Robert Cahen 2005 France Pour Finir Ici Finally Sébastien Caillat 2005 France Quodlibet Any Ila Bêka 2005 Italia Running Fence Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin 1978 USA Shesh Video Arts Mina Akbari 2005 Iran Sisma Earthquake Émilie Deleuze , Fabrice Hyber2005 France Sisters, Saints And Sybils Nan Goldin 2004 France Site Specific - Las Vegas 05 Olivo Barbieri 2005 USA, Canada Solitaire, Pauvre, Sordide, Abrutie Et Courte - Film De Guerre Lonely, Poor, Sordid, Abruption and Short - War Film Wagner Morales 2005 France Soltanto Essere Just Being Jacopo Bedogni, Nicolo Massazza 2005 Italia Summer Of '85 Rowan Al Faqih 2005 Switzerland Sur La Terre On Earth Ariane Michel 2005 France Sweep Richard Billingham 2004 Great Britain Swimming Off Off Sabrina Acciari 1999 Italia Terminal Heart Tim White-Sobieski 2004 USA Territory I, Ii, Iii Marine Hugonnier 2004 Great Britain The Gates - Work In Progress Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles 2005 USA The Lake Christina Benz 2004 Switzerland Trenink Pierre Reimer 2004 France True North Isaac Julien 2004 Great Britain Ukiyo (Floating World) Denis Dercourt 2005 France Umbrellas Henry Corra , Albert Maysles, Graham Weinbren1995 USA Unexpected Rules Frédéric Moser, Philippe Schwinger 2004 Switzerland Wall Catherine Yass 2004 Israel Week-End Pierre Reimer 2003 France Zivilisationsfloss Civilization Flowed Cornelia Heusser 2005 Switzerland Zona Grigia E Zone Sconosciute Gray Area and Unknown Areas Sabrina Acciari 2001 Italia
Soy Cuba Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano I am Cuba, the Siberian mammoth Vicente Ferraz 2004 Brazil Soy Cuba I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov 1964 Soviet Union, Cuba
Video Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country 0.58 Vincenzo Marra Italia A Coat Of Snow Gordy Hoffman USA Bania Cupola David Teboul France Between The Devil And The Wide Blue Sea Romuald Karmakar Germany Bosques Forests José Campusano, Gianfranco Quattrini Argentina Coma Mike Figgis , Coma GroupSlovenia, Great Britain, Germany, Spain Hao Duo Da Mi (So Much Rice) Li Hongqi China Haze Shinya Tsukamoto Japan Hidden Inside The Mountains Laurie Anderson USA Lavoratori Workers Tommaso Cotronei Italia Les États Nordiques Nordic States Denis Côté Canada Ljubav Na Granici Love on the Border Miroslav Ciro Mandic Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic Magician(S) Il-gon SONG South Korea Masahista The Masseur Brillante Mendoza Philippines Raccionepeccui Giuseppe Bertolucci Switzerland Raiees Jomhour Mir Qanbar President of the Fans of Mir Tanbur Mohammad Shirvani Iran Revival Paradise Frédéric Moser, Philippe Schwinger Switzerland, Poland Shooting Magpies Amber production team Great Britain Sleepless Nights Brian Fung Hong Kong Sperrstunde Barrier Thomas Woschitz Austria Volver La Vista Look Back Fridolin Schönwiese Austria, Mexico Worldly Desires Apichatpong Weerasethakul South Korea
Video Competition 95-05 Video Competition 95–05 Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Amber City Jem Cohen 1999 Italia, USA Cantata De Las Cosas Solas Cantata of Things Alone Willi Behnisch Argentina Chère Catherine Dear Catherine Raoul Peck 1997 Haiti Cinema, De Notre Temps: Mosso Mosso (Jean Rouch Comme Si...), Cinema, of Our Time: Mosso Mosso (Jean Rouch as if ...), Jean-André Fieschi 1998 France Conversations De Salon 1 - 2 - 3 Living Room Conversations 1 - 2 - 3 Danielle Arbid 2004 France Dukhovnye Golosa Spiritual Voices Alexander Sokurov 1995 Russia Ixieme, Journal D'Un Prisonnier Ixieme, a Prisoner's Newspaper Stéphane Blok, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud 2003 Switzerland Les Yeux Fermés Eyes Closed Olivier Py 1999 France Lost Book Found Jem Cohen 1996 USA Love And Diane Jennifer Dworkin 2002 USA, France Nocni Hovory S Matkou Night Calls with Mother Jan Němec 2001 Czech Republic
Independent 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.[7]
Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country Between The Lines Thomas Wartmann Germany Blau Stefan Kälin, Norbert Wiedmer Switzerland Gambit Sabine Gisiger Switzerland, Germany Geschlossene Gesellschaft Closed Society Andrei Schwartz Germany, France My Date With Drew Jon Gunn , Brian Herzlinger , Brett WinnUSA War'N Sie Schon Mal In Mich Verliebt? Have you Ever Been in Love with Me? Douglas Wolfsperger Germany, Austria Wie Luft Zum Atmen Like Air to Breathe Ruth Olshan Germany
Swiss Cinema Swiss Cinema Rediscovered Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Churer Fastnacht Umzug I. März 1927 Chur Carnival Parade In. March 1927 1927 Switzerland Landammann Stauffacher Leopold Lindtberg 1941 Switzerland Mittelholzers Afrikaflug Ii - Kilimandscharo-Flug Mittelholzer's Africa II - Kilimanjaro Flight Walter Mittelholzer 1927 Switzerland
Appellation Swiss Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Die Vogelpredigt Oder Das Schreien Der Mönche The Bird Sermon or the Screaming of the Monks Clemens Klopfenstein 2005 Switzerland Im Nordwind In the North Wind Bettina Oberli 2004 Switzerland Katzenball Cat Ball Veronika Minder 2005 Switzerland Klingenhof Beatrice Michel 2005 Switzerland La Nébuleuse Du Coeur The Nebula of the Heart Jacqueline Veuve 2005 Switzerland Maria Bethânia, Música É Perfume Maria Bethânia, Music is Perfume Georges Gachot 2005 Switzerland Nicolas Bouvier 22 Hospital Street Christoph Kuehn 2005 Switzerland Nocturne Riccardo Signorell 2004 Switzerland Ricordare Anna Remember Anna Walo Deuber 2005 Switzerland Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu A Whole Winter without Fire Greg Zglinski 2004 Switzerland
Official Awards
International Competition Golden Leopard: Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo GarcíaSilver Leopard: Fratricide directed by Yilmaz Arslan, 3 Grad Kaelter directed by Florian Hoffmeister (ex aequo), Ma Hameh Khoubim (We Are All Fine) directed by Bijan Mirbagheri (ex aequo)Leopard for Best Actress: Robin Wright Penn, Amanda Seyfried, Sissy Spacek, Holly Hunter, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Glenn Close, Elpidio Carrillo, Amy Brenneman, and Kathy Baker in NINE LIVESLeopard for Best Actor: Patrick Drolet in LA NEUVAINESpecial Jury Prize: Un Couple Parfait directed by Nobuhiro SuwaSpecial Mention, official Jury: The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes directed by Quay BrothersSpecial Mention, Official Jury, Young Actors: Marco Grieco in LA GUERRA DI MARIO, Xevat Gecat in FRATRICIDE
Piazza Grande Prix du Public UBS: ZAÏNA, CAVALIÈRE DE L'ATLAS directed by Bourlem Guerdjou
Leopards of Tomorrow competition Golden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse, New Swiss Talents: Silver Leopard, Eastman Kodak Company Prize, New Swiss Talents: La Limace directed by Anthony Vouardoux and Tania Zembrano OvalleAction "Light Prize" for the Best Swiss Newcomer: Frohe Ostern directed by Ulrich SchaffnerGolden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize, "Africa" Competition: L'ÉVANGILE DU COCHON CRÉOLE directed by Michelange QuaySilver Leopard, Eastman Kodak Company Prize, "Africa" Competition: Sa/X directed by Gilli ApterFilm and Video Subtitling Prize, "Africa" Competition: Enharda Talateen November directed by Mahmood SolimanSpecial Mention, Leopards of Tomorrow, New Swiss Talents: Staila Crudanta directed by Pascal BergaminSpecial Mention, Film and Video Subtitling Prize, "Africa" Competition: POURQUOI? directed by Sokhna AmarYouth Jury Prize, short films, "Africa" Competition: POURQUOI? directed by Sokhna Amar
Youth Jury First Prize, Youth Jury: Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo GarcíaSecond Prize, Youth Jury Prize: 20 CENTÍMETROS directed by Ramón SalazarThird Prize, Youth Jury: Fratricide directed by Yilmaz Arslan"The environnement is the quality of life" Prize: Le Neuvaine directed by Bernard ÉmondFirst Mention, Youth Jury: The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes directed by Quay BrothersSecond Mention, Youth Jury: Mirrormask directed by Dave McKean
Video Competition Jury Golden Leopard Video C.P Company: Les ÉTATS NORDIQUES directed by Denis Côté, Masahista directed by Brillante MendozaSpecial Mention, Video Competition: Between The Devil And The Wide Blue Sea directed by Romuald Karmakar
Ecumenical Jury Special Mention, Oecumenical Jury: Fratrcide directed by Yilmaz Arslan
FIPRESCI Jury FIPRESCI Prize: A Perfect Day directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
CICAE – Art & Essai Jury CICAE Prize: Un Couple Parfait directed by Nobuhiro Suwa
Human Rights Award Jury Human Rights Prize: Little Birds directed by Takeharu WataiSpecial Mention, Human Rights: Living Rights: Toti directed by Duco Tellegen, Alive In Limbo directed by Tina Naccache, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir and Erica Marcus
NETPAC Prize: Hao Duo Da Mi (So Much Rice) directed by Li HongqiNETPAC Special Prize: The Rising – BALLAD OF MANGL PANDEY directed by Ketan Mehta
FICC Jury Don Quijote Prize: A Perfect Day directed by Joana Dadjithomas and Khalil JoreigeSpecial Mention, FICC Jury: Ma Hameh Khoubim (We Are All Fine) directed by Bijan Mirbagheri, Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo García
SRG SSR idée suisse | Semaine de la critique Prize SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize, Critics Week: Gambit directed by Karin KochSpecial Mention, Critic Week Jury: My Date With Drew directed by Brett Winn, Brian Herzlinger and Jon GunnSource:[8] [9]
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