74th Locarno Film Festival

The 74th annual Locarno Festival was held from 4 August to 14 August 2021 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was Beckett by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, which had its world premiere on 4 August. The 74th edition of Locarno Film Festival hosted 14 films including 7 world premieres in Piazza Grande among which half were European productions. More than 75,000 spectators attended the festival, half the attendance rate in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash directed by Edwin.

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Events

Rotonda by la Mobiliare - Come together!

This event will be held from 30 July to 14 August. It is Locarno Film Festival’s communal space, which embraces existing audience and greets new people. It will have following platforms:

Art
Virtual Reality
Forum
Talks
Music
Food and beverage
Kids town
Come together

Locarno Talks la Mobiliare

During the course of the film festival, it will be a stage for exchanging and debating ideas and perspectives. It will have encounters with people from the world of art, photography, cinema music, politics and science.

Cinema and Youth

This is an initiative open to 28 final year students of high school or vocational school of Switzerland and Northern Italy, aged between 18 and 23. They will be privileged viewers as they may watch the screenings, meet directors and actors/actresses, attend specially organized introductory lectures on film language. In addition they will have access to the sidebar events.

Juries

International competition

Eliza Hittman, American filmmaker
Kevin Jerome Everson, American artist and filmmaker
Philippe Lacôte, filmmaker from Ivory Coast
Leonor Silveira, Portuguese actress
Isabella Ferrari, Italian actress

Filmmakers of the present competition

Agathe Bonitzer, French actress
Mattie Do, Laotian American filmmaker
Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director

Leopards of Tomorrow

Kamal Aljafari, Palestinian filmmaker and artist
Marie-Pierre Macia, French Producer
Adina Pintilie

First Feature

Amjad Abu Alala, Sudanese filmmaker
Karina Ressler, Austrian editor
Katharina Wyss, Switzerland filmmaker

Sections

The following films were selected to receive screening in the sections below:

Pre-Festival

LYNX by Laurent GeslinTomorrow My Love by Gitanjali Rao

Filmmakers of the Present (''Concorso Cineasti del presente'')

Highlighted title indicates winner

Leopards of Tomorrow (''Pardi di domani'')

International competition (''Concorso internazionale'')

Highlighted title indicates winner

National competition (Concorso nazionale)

Highlighted title indicates winner

Competition of Author's Courts (Concorso Corti d’autore)

Highlighted title indicates winner

Official Awards

The following awards were presented for films shown in competition:

International Competition

Golden Leopard: Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Edwin
Special Jury Prize: A New Old Play by Qiu Jiongjiong
Best Direction Award: Abel Ferrara for Zeros and Ones
Best Actor Award: Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar for The Odd-Job Men
Best Actress Award: Anastasiya Krasovskaya, Gerda by Natalya Kudryashova
Special Mentions:
*Soul Of A Beast by Lorenz Merz
*The Sacred Spirit by Chema García Ibarra

Filmmakers of the Present Competition

Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present: Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner
Special Jury Prize: L’Été L’éternité by Émilie Aussel
Best Emerging Director: Hleb Papou for Il Legionario
Leopard for the Best Actress: Saskia Rosendahl for No One’s With the Calves
Leopard for the Best Actor: Gia Agumava ''for Wet Sand''