Locarno Film Festival

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2024
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Pardo d’Oro – Grand Prize of the Festival and City of Locarno

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Saulė Bliuvaitė
Toxic
Dreaming of escape from the bleakness of their industrial hometown, two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, form a unique…

Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and Losone

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Kurdwin Ayub
Moon
Former martial artist Sarah leaves Austria to train three sisters from a wealthy Jordanian family. What initially sounds…

Pardo for Best Direction – City and Region of Locarno

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Laurynas Bareiša
Drowning Dry
Together with her sister Juste's family, Ernesta, her husband Lukas, and her son are spending the weekend at a country…

Pardo for Best Performance

Gelminė Glemžaitė, Agnė Kaktaitė, Giedrius Kiela, Paulius Markevičius
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Laurynas Bareiša
Drowning Dry
Together with her sister Juste's family, Ernesta, her husband Lukas, and her son are spending the weekend at a country…

Pardo for Best Performance

Kim Minhee
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Hong Sangsoo
By The Stream
A lecturer named Jeonim asks her uncle to direct a theatrical skit put on by her school department. Each day, Jeonim…

Special Mention

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Wang Bing
Youth (Hard Times)
Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming more dramatic as the seasons go by. From…

Special Mention

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Mar Coll
Salve Maria
Maria, a promising young writer and new mother, stumbles upon a chilling headline: a French woman has drowned her…

Pardo d’Oro – Concorso Cineasti del Presente

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Tato Kotetishvili
Holy Electricity
When young Gonga and his cousin Bart find a suitcase full of rusty crosses in a scrapyard, Bart gets the idea to turn…

Best Emerging Director Award – City and Region of Locarno

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Denise Fernandes
Hanami
On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay. Her mother Nia, who…

Special Jury Prize CINÉ+

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Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Listen to the Voices
Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, French Guiana. His presence and…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Pardo for Best Performance

Callie Hernandez
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Courtney Stephens
Invention
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Pardo for Best Performance

Anna Mészöly
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Bálint Szimler
Lesson Learned
Young teacher Juci attempts to challenge the outdated methods in her school, while new student Palkó, recently…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Special Mention

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Bálint Szimler
Lesson Learned
Young teacher Juci attempts to challenge the outdated methods in her school, while new student Palkó, recently…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Special Mention

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Iva Radivojević
When the Phone Rang
Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, Kada je zazvonio telefon investigates dislocation and the…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Corti d'Autore, Pardino d’Oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film

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Maha Haj
Upshot
A reclusive couple’s carefully maintained fantasy is threatened when an uninvited stranger brings a painful truth from…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Corti d'Autore, Special Mention

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Syeyoung Park
The Masked Monster
Overcome with hunger, a girl trades her brother for a bag of rice. When her hunger is sated, she comes to her senses.…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Corti d'Autore, Locarno Film Festival Short Film Candidate – European Film Awards

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Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
The Exploding Girl
For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even two or three times a day. Her record is…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Internazionale Pardino d’Oro SRG SSR for the Best International Short Film

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Mickey Lai
WAShhh
Set in a Malaysia National Service camp, a Chinese trainee is ordered by the teacher to lead her multiracial female…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Internazionale Pardino d’Argento SRG SSR for the International Competition

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Ataka51
Hymn of the Plague
In an old Soviet recording studio, musicians attempt to record a composition based on Pushkin’s A Feast in Time of…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Internazionale Pardi di Domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering

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Joel Alfonso Vargas
May It Go Beautifully for You, Rico
An aimless teen and his underage girlfriend sell illegally brewed cocktails called “Nutcrackers” on a beach in the…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Internazionale Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award

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Melika Pazouki
The Form
Eli, a 15-year-old teenager, gets ready in the school restroom to go on her first date with someone she has never seen…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Internazionale, Special Mention

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Claire Barnett
Freak
A couple is confronted with a question that tests the boundaries of their relationship: what is your deepest, darkest…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Pardino d’Oro Swiss Life for the Best Swiss Short Film

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Samuel Patthey
Voiceless
Dan spends most of his time in his apartment listening to electronic music. In the outside world, he feels disconnected…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Pardino d’Argento Swiss Life for the National Competition

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Jonathan Leggett
Better Not Kill the Groove
Between scootering and self-development, a young boy in search of his identity explores his relationship to his body and…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Best Swiss Newcomer Award

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Gabriel Grosclaude
Lux carne
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test. When a young reporter wants to document this process, she, too, must face…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Special Mention

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Gabriel Böhmer
Progress Mining
Feed the monster, have a cup of tea, and if it's your first day – don't pay attention to anything peculiar in Sector…

Concorso Internazionale Swatch First Feature Award

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Saulė Bliuvaitė
Toxic
Dreaming of escape from the bleakness of their industrial hometown, two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, form a unique…

Concorso Internazionale MUBI Award – Debut Feature

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Sylvie Ballyot
Green Line
Fida grew up during the war in Beirut in the 1980s, immersed in the "red hell" her grandmother used to tell her about.…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente First Feature Awards – Special Mention

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Denise Fernandes
Hanami
On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay. Her mother Nia, who…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente First Feature Awards – Special Mention

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Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Listen to the Voices
Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, French Guiana. His presence and…

Concorso Internazionale Pardo Verde

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Ala Eddine Slim
Agora
The return of three missing persons to their hometown is certain to upset the established order. The news must be kept…

Concorso Cineasti del Presente Pardo Verde – Special Mention

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Willy Hans
Skill Issue
After escaping from gym class, Simon finds himself on the banks of a river with a group of teenagers. Amidst the air…

Pardi di Domani – Concorso Corti d'Autore Pardo Verde – Special Mention

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Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik
Revolving Rounds
A mid-century cinematic device that uses a rotating barrier-grid to display autostereoscopic 3D: the cyclostéréoscope…