The 70th Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 August 2017 in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival's opening film was Tomorrow and Thereafter (Demain et tous les autres jours) directed by Noémie Lvovsky. The closing film was Gotthard – One Life, One Soul directed by Kevin Merz.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to the documentary film Mrs. Fang directed by Wang Bing.
Juries
International Competition
Olivier Assayas, French filmmaker and film critic - Jury President Jean-Stéphane Bron, Swiss actor and filmmaker Miguel Gomes, Portuguese filmmaker Christos Konstantakopoulos, Greek producer and writer Birgit Minichmayr, Austrian actress
Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente) Yousry Nasrallah, Egyptian filmmaker - Jury President Matías Piñeiro, Argentinian director Katrin Pors, Danish film producer Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress Paola Turci, Italian composer
Leopards of Tomorrow Sabine Azéma, French actress and director - Jury President
Official Sections The following films were screened in the sections below:
Piazza Grande: Prefestival Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction countryDue SoldatiTwo SoldiersMarco Tullio Giordana2017ItalyGoldfingerGuy Hamilton1964United KingdomScarlatti K. 259Marco Tullio Giordana2017Italy
Piazza Grande English Title Original title Director(s) Production Country Atomic Blonde David Leitch United States The Big Sick Michael Showalter United States DogChien Samuel Benchetrit France, Belgium Drei Zinnen Jan Zabeil Germany, Italy Good Time Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie United States Gotthard - One Life, One Soul Kevin Merz Switzerland I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Jacques Tourneur United States Iceman Felix Randau Germany, Italy, Austria Let the Corpses TanLaissez Bronzer Les Cadavres Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Belgium, France Lola Pater Nadir Moknèche France, Belgium Sicilia! (1999) Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet Italy, France, Germany The Song of Scorpions Anup Singh Switzerland, France, Singapore Sparring Samuel Jouy France Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This WorldAmori Che Non Sanno Stare Al Mondo Francesca Comencini Italy Tomorrow and ThereafterDemain et Tous les Autres Jours Noémie Lvovsky France What Happened to Monday Tommy Wirkola United Kingdom, United States, France, Belgium
International Competition (Concorso internazionale) English Title Original title Director(s) Production Country Charleston Andreï Cretulescu Romania, France Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? Travis Wilkerson United States Dragonfly EyesQing Ting Zhi Yan Xu Bing China, United States En el séptimo día Jim McKay United States 9 Fingers9 Doigts F.J. Ossang France Freiheit Jan Speckenbach Germany, Slovakia Gemini Aaron Katz United States Gli Asteroidi Germano Maccioni Italy Goliath Dominik Locher Switzerland Good Luck Ben Russell France, Germany Good MannersAs Boas Maneiras Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra Brazil, France Lucky John Carroll Lynch United States Madame Hyde Serge Bozon France, Belgium Mrs. Fang方绣英 Wang Bing France, China, Germany A Skin So SoftTa peau si lisse Denis Côté Canada, Switzerland Wajibواجب Annemarie Jacir Palestine, Qatar, United Arab Emirates The Wandering Soap OperaLa telenovela errante Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento Chile
Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente) English Title Original title Director(s) Production Country 3/4 Ilian Metev Bulgaria, Germany Beach Rats Eliza Hittman United States Damned SummerVerão Danado Pedro Cabeleira Portugal Distant Constellation Shevaun Mizrahi United States, Turkey, Netherlands Easy Andrea Magnani Italy, Ukraine Farewell To The ParentsAbschied Von Den Eltern Astrid Johanna Ofner Austria The First Lap초행 Kim Dae-hwan Korea Le Fort des Fous Narimane Mari France, Qatar Il Monte Delle Formiche Riccardo Palladino Italy Meteorlar Gürcan Keltek Netherlands, Turkey Person to Person Dustin Guy Defa United States Scary Motherსაშიში დედა Ana Urushadze Georgia, Estonia Sweating the Small StuffEdaha No Koto Ryûtarô Ninomiya Japan Those Who Are FineDene Wos Guet Geit Cyril Schäublin Switzerland
Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di domani) International competition (Concorso internazionale) Highlighted title indicates Leopard of Tomorrow winner English Title Original title Director(s) Country Ella's MenAgvarim Shel Ella Oren Adaf Israel António E Catarina Cristina Haneș Portugal Armageddon 2 Corey Hughes Cuba Boomerang David Bouttin France British By The Grace Of God Sean Robert Dunn United Kingdom/USA/UnitedArab Emirates Crossing River Yumeng Han China Das Satanische Dickicht – Drei Willy Hans Germany Douggy Matvey Fiks USA/Russia Edge Of Alchemy Stacey Steers USA Fine Di Un Amore Alberto Tamburelli Italy Graduation`97Vypusk ’97 Pavlo Ostrikov Ukraine Black ClothesHaine Negre Octav Chelaru Romania Harbour Stefanie Kolk Netherlands Jeunes Hommes À La Fenêtre Loukianos Moshonas France Kapitalistis Pablo Muñoz Gomez Belgium/France Loop Matija Gluscevic Serbia Los Perros De Amundsen Rafael Ramírez Cuba GazeNegah Farnoosh Samadi Iran Nobody HereNikog Nema Jelena Gavrilović Serbia Palenque Sebastián Pinzón Silva Colombia/USA Plus Ultra Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado Spain Shmama Miki Polonski Israel Signature Kei Chikaura Japan Silica Pia Borg Australia/United Kingdom Song X Mont Tesprateep Thailand Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant Jodie Mack USA Life Story Of My FriendZhizn’ Moego Druga Alexander Zolotukhin Russia
National competition (Concorso nazionale) Highlighted title indicates Leopard of Tomorrow winner Original Title Title Director(s)Country 59 Secondes 59 Seconds Mauro CarraroSwitzerland A Song from the Future Tommaso DonatiSwitzerland Kuckuck Aline HöchliSwitzerland La Femme Canon The Canon Woman David Toutevoix, Albertine ZulloSwitzerland Les Histoires Vraies True Stories Lucien MonotSwitzerland Les Intranquilles Intranquilles Magdalena FrogerSwitzerland Parades Sarah ArnoldFrance Resistance Laurence FavreSwitzerland Rewind Forward Justin StonehamSwitzerland Und Alles Fällt And Everything Falls Nadine SchwitterGermany Villa Ventura Roman HübenSwitzerland Signs of Life Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)Production countryAliensLuis López CarrascoSpainCocoteNelson Carlo De Los Santos AriasRepubblica DominicanaEra Uma Vez BrasíliaOnce Upon a Time BrasiliaAdirley QueirósBrazilFilmusFilmsClément SafraFranceIn Praise of NothingBoris MiticSerbiaOuroborosBasma AlsharifFrancePanopticRana EidLebanonPhantasiesätzeFantasy SentencesDane KomljenGermanySurbilesGiovanni ColumbuItaliaZirdziņ, Hallo!Horse, Hallo!Laila Pakalnina, Laila PakalniņaLatviaȚara MoartăThe Dead CountryRadu JudeRomania
Open Doors Screenings +Open Doors Screenings - Features Original Title English title Director(s) Year Country 28 Prasanna Jayakody 2014 Sri Lanka A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 2015 Pakistan/USA Namai Ba Rahis Gomhor A Letter To The President Roya Sadat 2017 Afghanistan Davena VihagunBurning Birds Sanjeewa Pushpakumara 2016 Sri Lanka/France/Netherlands/Qatar Earth And Ashes Atiq Rahimi 2004 Afghanistan/France Jeewan Hathi Elephant In The Room Meenu Gaur & Farjad Nabi 2016 Pakistan/India Khamosh PaniSilent Waters Sabiha Sumar 2003 Pakistan/France/Germany Osama Siddiq Barmak 2003 Afghanistan/Japan/Ireland Sulanga Enu Pinisa (The Forsaken Land) The Forsaken Land Vimukthi Jayasundara 2005 Sri Lanka/FranceOpen Doors Screenings - ShortsOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearCountryAmir & SaraJalal Hussaini2014AfghanistanFinding ZalmaySami Hasib Nabizada2012AfghanistanHomeZainab Entezar2015AfghanistanDar Charkha (In Circle)In CircleMasooma Ibrahimi2014AfghanistanIn Search OfDaniel Asadi Faezi2017PakistanMata Nam Ahuna While You SleptNadya Perera2015Sri LankaKatada Ayiti My Mother's MoneySuranga Katugampala2014Sri LankaPoshakFacadeIram Parveen Bilal2011PakistanMouna Vizhiththuligal (Silent TearsIlango Ramanathan2014Sri LankaSwapSayed Masood Eslami2014AfghanistanVice Versa OneShahrbanoo Sadat2010Afghanistan
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) – Feature Films Original Title English Title Director(s)YearProduction country Acta Non Verba Not Words Yvann Yagchi2017Switzerland Anatomia Del Miracolo Anatomy of the Miracle Alessandra Celesia2017France Azmaish Trial Sabiha Sumar2017Pakistan Choisir À Vingt Ans Choose at Twenty Villi Hermann2017Switzerland Contes De Juillet July Tales Guillaume Brac2017France Filles Du Feu Fire Girls Stéphane Breton2017France Grandeur Et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinéma Greatness and Decadence of a Small Cinema Trade Jean-Luc Godard1986France Ibi Place Andrea Segre2017Italia Le Vénérable W. The Venerable W. Barbet Schroeder2017France Nazidanie Aleksandr Shein, Boris Yukhananov2017Russia Nothingwood Sonia Kronlund2017France Nous Sommes Jeunes Et Nos Jours Sont Longs We are Young and Our Days are Long Cosme Castro, Léa Forest2017France Piazza Grande Michael Beltrami, Misha Gyorik2017Switzerland Pietra Tenera Tender Stone Aurélie Mertenat2017Switzerland Prototype Blake Williams2017CanadaSand Und BlutSand and BloodMatthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel2017AustriaThe Reagan ShowSierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez2017USAWillkommen In Der SchweizWelcome to SwitzerlandSabine Gisiger2017SwitzerlandShorts - Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso)Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction countryA Manifesto for the Un-CommunalSyllas Tzoumerkas2017GermanyArrière-SaisonA Great-SeasonJean-Claude Rousseau2016FranceGranmaDaniele Gaglianone, Alfie Nze2017ItaliaO Homem De Trás-Os-MontesThe Man from Trás-Os-MontesMiguel Moraes Cabral2017PortugalPer Una RosaFor a RoseMarco Bellocchio2017ItaliaScaffoldKazik Radwanski2017CanadaSi Loin, Si ProcheSo Far Away, so CloseJean-Claude Rousseau2016FranceTshweeshTweeshFeyrouz Serhal2017LebanonOut of Competition: Art BaselImmortality for All: A Film Trilogy on Russian CosmismAnton VidokleKazakhstan
History (s) of cinema (Histoire(s) du cinéma) Pardo d’onore Manor to Jean-Marie Straub Title Director(s) CountryYear Cézanne, Dialogue Avec Joachim Gasquet Straub–Huillet France 1989 Dalla Nube Alla Resistenza Straub–Huillet Italy/Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)/United Kingdom/France1979 Der Bräutigam, Die Komödiantin Und Der Zuhälter Jean-Marie Straub Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) 1968 En Rachâchant Straub–Huillet France 1982 Incantati Straub–Huillet France 2003 Klassenverhältnisse Straub–Huillet Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)/France 1984 Kommunisten Jean-Marie Straub France/Switzerland2014 L’Aquarium Et La Nation Jean-Marie Straub France/ Switzerland 2015 La Guerre D’Algérie! Jean-Marie Straub France/Switzerland 2014 Une Visite Au Louvre Straub–Huillet France/Germany/Italy 2004 Von Heute Auf Morgen Straub–Huillet France/Germany 1996
Leopard of Honor to Todd Haynes (Pardo d’onore Manor_ Title Director(s) CountryYear Far from Heaven Todd Haynes USA/France 2003 Velvet Goldmine Todd Haynes United Kingdom/USA 1998 Wonderstruck Todd Haynes USA 2017
Locarno70 Locarno70English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)YearProduction country36 FilletteCatherine Breillat1988FranceThe Night of Counting the YearsAl-MomiaShadi Abdel Salam1969EgyptThe Seventh ContinentDer Siebente KontinentMichael Haneke1989AustriaEl PisitoMarco Ferreri, Isidoro M. Ferry1958SpainHallelujah the HillsAdolfas Mekas1963USALion SignLe Signe Du LionÉric Rohmer1962FranceThe Lonely Voice of a PersonOdinokiy Golos ChelovekaAlexander Sokurov1987ex URSSPoisonTodd Haynes1991USASan GottardoVilli Hermann1977SwitzerlandThree Sad TigersTres Tristes TigresRaúl Ruiz1968ChileI Would Like an HourUn'Ora Sola Ti VorreiAlina Marazzi2002Italia
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