Special 69FF Locarno: The wind blowing from the East won the Festival goes to Thessaloniki -

It closed the 69th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, The fourth edition dedicated to the artistic direction curated by Carlo Chatrian, che ha assegnato il Pardo d’oro al film Godless della regista bulgara Ralitza Petrova. The final evening of the Piazza Grande has seen protagonists the many East European filmmakers who are rewarded. Dopo è seguita la proiezione dello spettacolare film di chiusura Mohenjo Daro con la grandiosa messa in scena di Ashutosh

Gowarike.

But here are the winning films of which we had the pleasure to speak to you and the good fortune of seeing them during the brief foray in the charming Swiss village overlooking Lake Como.

As already mentioned il Pardo d’oro è andato a GODLESS della giovanissima regista bulgara Ralitza Petrova. Sebbene nella

presentazione ufficiale si avvisava che il film conteneva delle scene che possono urtare la sensibilità di alcuni spettatori, the film has convinced Arturo Ripstein and the other members of the jury. In fact, even the protagonist of the film IRENA IVANOVA was awarded the Leopard for Best Actress. The existential question that arises young Petrova about good and evil is universal. The Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile è andato a ANDRZEJ SEWERYN che interpreta il celebre pittore surrealista polacco Zdzislaw Beksinski nel bioptic OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) Polish Jan P. Matuszyński. Sebbene fosse anche meritevole la notevole interpretazione di Stefan Denolyubov nei panni di Tsanko Petrov protagonista dell’altro film bulgaro Slava. A questo è andata la menzione speciale della Giuria FICC/IFFS la quale ha premiato il poetico INIMI CICATRIZATE del rumeno Radu Jude. The latter has deservedly received the Special Jury Prize of the International Competition.

Finally, the Pardo per la miglior regia è andato al regista portoghese JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES per O ORNITÓLOGO. In this case they counted the similarities with the Mexican Ripstein. Con sommo piacere la Menzione speciale della giuria è andata al film MISTER UNIVERSO di Tizza Covi e Rainer

Frimmel. The same has received a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, and FIPRESCI Prize, the Europa Cinemas Label Award and one of the Awards of the Youth Jury.

Anche nel Concorso Cineasti del presente il Premio speciale della giuria è andato ad un’italiano: the director Yuri Ancarani with the doc THE CHALLENGE.

Nel Concorso internazionale Pardi di domani premiato un altro italiano con il Premio Film und Video Untertitelung che è andato a VALPARAISO di Carlo Sironi.

The public, protagonista della kermesse che con passione ha

affollato le serate in Piazza Grande ha assegnato il Prix du Public UBS incoronando il vincitore di Cannes I, DANIEL BLAKE di Ken Loach, while the Variety Piazza Grande Award went to MOKA thriller by French director Frédéric Mermoud.

Invece il Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio Nescens è andato all’argentino Eduardo Williams con l’allegorico e controverso EL AUGE DEL HUMANO, together with the special mention of the Swatch First Feature Jury Award.

Finally, a reference to sezione autonoma della 27ma Semaine de la Critique sezione indipendente del Festival di Locarno organizzata dall’Associazione Svizzera dei Giornalisti Cinematografici con i due documentari vincitori. Komunia Polish director Anna Zamecka, e

Cahier africain the courageous Swiss director Heidi Specogna that reveals the horrors suffered by girls and women of Central Africa at the hands of the Congolese mercenaries during the armed conflict of 2008. Unfortunately, history is repeated during the filming of the documentary.

The numbers of the festival are the Ticino 279 films in 11 days, 16 under the sky of Piazza Grande 17 in International Competition. Among the special guests of this year unforgettable salute to the Piazza di Mario Adorf and Stefania Sandrelli, conversations with the audience of Harvey Keitel, Roger Corman, David Linde and Alejandro Jodorowsky and the masterclass di Howard Shore; revolutionary passion of Ken Loach and even the memory of Cimino Isabelle Huppert and his son Ahmad to his father Abbas Kiarostami, the generosity of Jane Birkin and contagious sympathy Bill Pullman. We mention the satisfaction DiCarlo Chatrian, Artistic director: "The issue that is ending, the sixty-ninth, It contained some bets. From a programming freer Square to welcome not discounted proposals to the competitions which privileged young directors. The positive response of the public and press is for us an encouragement to continue the path taken. We want both Locarno, as it was in these exciting eleven days, a place to show films that put man at the center in all its facets, films that discuss and excite; at the same time, the meeting place between the great artists, able to deliver messages from Fort Worth, and an attentive and enthusiastic audience. A public capable of receiving the same affection the great Harvey Keitel and his fellow Bhutanese, less known, but able to vibrate 8000 chairs to the rhythm of his voice ".

Annunciate pure le date del 70mo Festival del film Locarno che si terrà dal 2 al 12 August 2017. A special stamp will be issued for the 70th anniversary of the Festival. Marco Solari, President of the Festival commented: "I am grateful to Adriano P. Vassals vice president of the Board of Directors of Swiss Post and Susanne Ruoff, Director General of La Posta, for proposing, what for us is an unexpected gift for 70.esimo of the Festival ".

Per quanto ci riguarda il gradimento sui film che abbiamo avuto modo di vedere nel fine settimana esso è rivolto ai cineasti provenienti da quello che era una volta l’Est europeo a dimostrazione ancora una volta del fermento culturale post comunista in atto in quei paesi. Si pone al primo posto INIMI

CICATRIZATE the Romanian Radu Jude, already known in Berlin with Aferim. Although exceed half an hour the fateful 120 min and deal with this matter difficult of suffering, the viewer leaves the room with a renewed perspective precisely the suffering of the young protagonist. Life lived in a sanatorium incurable playing a microcosm of human characters and despite all the power of love is driving. On the one hand the desperation of hospitalized, on the other the complicity of the attendants and nurses that alleviate the suffering of the first with their humanity. The directorial effort is able to bring to the screen an autobiographical work by Max Blecher worn by the disease only 29 years, of which the last ten past suffering. Help him by the same young author with his reflections on trivial values of earthly life.

L’altro film degno di premio è Ostania Rodzina del polacco Jan P. Matuszynski. Well this is a biopic about the famous surrealist painter Zdzislaw Polish Beksinski, who lived in the period of the communist regime, and his family. With manic coldness Beksinski captures with the camera the salient and crucial moments in their family to survive after the end of the regime. The finish is not obvious and reveals some regret the director toward the communist society and the values of a family supported by the female gender represented by his wife Zonja. Spassoso il rapporto con lo stravagante figlio e i vari omaggi alla

cinematografia mondiale dell’epoca. The movie trio is completed with the ironic Slava (Glory) Bulgarian directorial duo composed Grozeva Kristina and Petar Valchanov their second try directing, discovered by the Locarno Film Festival. The corrupt and self-serving bureaucracy against the last of the last citizens. The story has an unexpected ending and well thought out.

That said Goodbye to the 70th edition in August 2017!

Ma prima di quella data si avrà un proseguimento del Festival del film Locarno al Thessaloniki International Film Festival grazie alla cooperazione e partecipazione di entrambi alla prima edizione dell’Industry Academy in Europe & Mediterraneo sud-orientale che si svolgerà a Salonicco dal 7 all'11 November 2016 in concomitanza appunto del 57mo Thessaloniki International Film Festival che si terrà dal 4 al- 13 November.
The announcement by the Locarno Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival with the launch of a new joint initiative in the countries of Southeast Europe. After completing successful editions in Mexico, Brazil and New York, Locarno plans to extend the initiative in Thessaloniki, with a pilot edition. Participants in the Industry Academy of Thessaloniki will follow a workshop during which they will interact, share experiences, film, meetings with key international actors for threads, presentations of case studies and group work. They will also have the opportunity to participate in some activities of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Agora / Industry, including networking events with key players. The General Director of TIFF, Élise Jalladeau commented: “We are very happy to inaugurate this new partnership between the Locarno Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Industry International Academy will be a great opportunity that will benefit our region in terms of new talent by acquiring new tools for distribution, sales and training, but it will also be a valuable platform for new collaborations, exchange of ideas and networking opportunities “. They were admitted Albania, Algeria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cipro, Egypt, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestina, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.

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