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Locarno Festival 2024 prize list

The 77th Locarno Film Festival awarded its Pardo d’Oro to Saulė Bliuvaitė‘s Akiplėša (Toxic), a gripping tale of adolescent girls’ inner struggle with their bodies.

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With a rich and eclectic program, the official selection of Locarno77 brilliantly defended all facets of cinema, whether popular or auteur, experimental or classical. This year’s edition combined resounding box-office success – with numerous sold-out screenings and long queues in the streets of Locarno – with the carefully considered programming of the parallel sections for which the Festival is now renowned.
The 77th Locarno Film Festival crowned Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Akiplėša (Toxic), a harrowing portrait of teenage girls confronted with the social injunctions that oppress them. Also in the Concorso Internazionale section, Kurdwin Ayub’s Mond won the Special Jury Prize, while the Pardo for Best Direction went to Laurynas Bareiša for Seses (Drowning Dry). Prizes for best acting went respectively to Gelminė Glemžaitė, Agnė Kaktaitė, Giedrius Kiela and Paulius Markevičius for Seses (Drowning Dry), and to Kim Minhee, star of Hong Sangsoo’s SUYOOCHEON (BY THE STREAM). The Concorso Cineasti del Presente Pardo d’Oro was awarded to Tato Kotetishvili’s HOLY ELECTRICITY.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, was delighted with this success and the presence of women in the awards: “This exceptional edition has once again demonstrated why Locarno is a festival prized by audiences the world over, as well as by the film industry… Locarno77 has vigorously reaffirmed the central place of female voices in contemporary cinema.”

With 225 films on the program and over 300 screenings, Locarno’s cinemas were packed to the rafters. Here’s the prize list.

 AKIPLĖŠA (TOXIC) by Saulė Bliuvaitė, Lituania 

MOND by Kurdwin Ayub, Austria

Laurynas Bareiša for SESES (DROWNING DRY), Lituania/Lettonia 

Gelminė Glemžaitė, Agnė Kaktaitė, Giedrius Kiela, Paulius Markevičius for SESES (DROWNING DRY) by Laurynas Bareiša, Lituania/Lettonia 

Kim Minhee for SUYOOCHEON (BY THE STREAM) by Hong Sangsoo, South Corea

Special Mention

QING CHUN (KU) (YOUTH (HARD TIMES)) by WANG Bing, France/Luxembourg/Netherlands

 SALVE MARIA by Mar Coll, Spain

HOLY ELECTRICITY by Tato Kotetishvili, Georgia/Netherlands

Denise Fernandes by HANAMI, Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

KOUTÉ VWA (LISTEN TO THE VOICES) by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Belgium/France/Guyane

Callie Hernandez for INVENTION by Courtney Stephens, United States

Anna Mészöly for FEKETE PONT (LESSON LEARNED) by Bálint Szimler, Hungary

Special Mention

KADA JE ZAZVONIO TELEFON (WHEN THE PHONE RANG) by Iva Radivojević, Serbia/United States

UPSHOT by Maha Haj, Palestine/Italy/France

Special Mention

 GWE-IN ESI JEONGCHE (THE MASKED MONSTER) by Syeyoung Park, South Corea

LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, France

WASHHH by Mickey Lai, Malaysia/Ireland

GIMN CHUME (HYMN OF THE PLAGUE) by Ataka51, Germany/Russia

QUE TE VAYA BONITO, RICO by Joel Alfonso Vargas, United Kingdom/United States

THE FORM by Melika Pazouki, Iran  

Special Mention

FREAK by Claire Barnett, États-Unis

BETTER NOT KILL THE GROOVE by Jonathan Leggett, Switzerland

Gabriel Grosclaude for LUX CARNE, Switzerland

Special Mention

PROGRESS MINING by Gabriel Böhmer, United Kingdom/Switzerland

AKIPLĖŠA (TOXIC) by Saulė Bliuvaitė, Lituania 

GREEN LINE by Sylvie Ballyot, France/Lebanon/Qatar

HANAMI by Denise Fernandes, Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

KOUTÉ VWA (LISTEN TO THE VOICES) by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Belgium/France/Guyane

AGORA by Ala Eddine Slim, Tunisia/France/Saudi Arabia/Qatar

Special Mention

 DER FLECK by Willy Hans, Germany/Switzerland

REVOLVING ROUNDS by Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik, Austria

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