The 21st Locarno Film Festival was held from 26 September to 6 October 1968 in Locarno, Switzerland.
There was fight on the festival jury this year. Due to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact countries, Czech director and jury member Jiri Menzel refused to vote on films from Warsaw Pact countries as he felt he could not fairly evaluate them. As a result, the five person jury voted to ask the distributors of films from the Soviet Union, Hungary and East Germany to remove them from competition at the festival.
However, after the vote, two jury members, Michel Cournot and , thought this was too extreme and threatened to resign, while jury members Puriša Đorđević and André Delvaux sided with Mezel. The result was the selection of an entirely new jury, pulled from the youth jury, and all films were again considered in the competition.
Also, like at other festivals this year, student protesters briefly interrupted the festival during the last night, but ultimately did not stop the festival for long.
The festival's top prize, the Golden Leopard, was awarded to The Visionaries directed by Maurizio Ponzi.
Official Sections The following films were screened in these sections:
Main Program
Main Program / Feature Films In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Anichti Epistoli Open Letter Georges Stamboulopoulos 1967 Greece Cara A Cara Face to Face Júlio Bressane 1967 Brazil Eine Ehe A Marriage H.R. Strobel 1968 Germany El Periodista Turner The Turner Journalist Oscar Menendez 1967 Mexico Eltavozzott Nap/Cati The Girl Marta Meszaros 1968 Hungary FantabulousFantabulous Inc. Sergio Spina 1967 Italia Grazie Zia Come Play with Me Salvatore Samperi 1968 Italia Haschisch Hashish Michel Soutter 1968 Switzerland HeadDope Sheldon Rochlin, Diane Rochlin 1968 USA I Visionari The Visionaries Maurizio Ponzi 1968 Italia Il Gatto Selvaggio The Wild Cat Andrea Frezza 1968 Italia Leben Zu Zweit Life in Pairs Hermann Zscoche 1968 East Germany Medding El Az Ember How Long Does Man Live? Judit Elek 1967 Hungary Mokhtar Ben Aicha Sadok 1968 Tunisia Money-Money José Varela France No Tears For Ananse Sam Aryeetey 1968 Ghana Osennie Svadjby Autumn Weddings Boris Yashin 1967 Russia Revolution Jack O'Connel 1968 USA Sasayaki No Joe Whispering Joe Koichi Saito 1968 Japan Soukroma Vichrice Windstorm Hynek Bočan 1967 Czech Republic Yellow Submarine George Dunning 1968 Great Britain Tute Cabrero Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo Juan José Jusid 1968 Argentina Viagem Au Fim Do Mundo Voyage to the End of the World Fernando Campos 1968 Brazil
Main Program / Short Films In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Archeologia Poland Ares Contre Atlas Ares Against Atlas Manuel Otéro France Automate Christian Liardet Switzerland Breakfast William Sachs Great Britain Dans L'Amphitheatre In the Amphitheater Jan Werber Israel Das Schlüsselkind The Key Child Helmut Pfandler Austria Embassas Ivan Andonov Bulgaria Faithful Departed Kieran Hickey Iceland Flesh Stephen Weeks Great Britain God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance Les Blank USA Hanno Detto Il Tuo Nome They Said your Name Gianni Aringoli, Claudio Sestrieri Italia Historia Naturae History of Nature Jan Švankmajer Czech Republic Hobby Daniel Szczechura Poland Impressions Living Daniel Fahri Switzerland Irreversione Germano Olivotto, Gaetano Pesce Italia Koncertissimo Concertissimo Jozsef Gemes Hungary Le Retour D'Un Aventurier The Return of an Adventurer Mustapha Alassane Nigeria Les Corbeaux The Crows Gisèle Ansorge, Ernest Ansorge Switzerland Les Moghuls Aruna Vasudev India Madur Of Verksmidja Madur of Workshop Thorgeir Thorgeirsson Iceland Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin SONSERY Jean-Claude Vauline Pascal Aubier France Notturno De Göldi Night De Göldi Carlos Frederico Brazil Now Cammell Hudson, Brown John Great Britain O Rupama I Cepovima About Holes and Cepos Ante Zaninovik Yugoslavia Od 3 Do 22 (Zena) From 3 to 22 (a Woman) Krešo Golik Yugoslavia Ouverture Opening Hungary Pas De Deux No Two Norman McLaren Canada Poslije Podne P.m Lordan Zafranović Yugoslavia Soto Ivan Croce Venezuela Spindrift Oxley Hughan, Geoffrey Scott New Zealand Stairs Gene Beuth USA Tolerancija Tolerance Zlato Grgic, Branko Ranitovic Yugoslavia Underground New York Gideon Bachman USA Unete Pueblo Unete Town Oscar Menendez Mexico Univers Universe Manuel Otéro France
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Main Program / Feature Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Capitu Get it Paulo César Saraceni 1968 Brazil Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 1968 Germany Escalation Escalation Roberto Faenza 1968 Italia La hora de los hornos The Hour of the Furnaces Fernando Solanas 1968 Argentina Les Gauloises bleues Les Gauloises bleues Michel Cournot 1968 France Rozmarné léto Capricious Summer Jiri Menzel 1968 Czech Republic Un soir, un train One Night... A Train André Delvaux 1968 Belgium
Main Program / Short Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Publicitoc Jean Daniel Bloesch Switzerland The Sailor And The Devil Richard Williams Great Britain
Special Sections Feature Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country La Otra Ciudad The Other City Checo Vejar 1967 Mexico Les Petits Soldats Little Soldiers Liebe Und So Weiter Love and so on Georges Moorse 1968 Germany Monterrey Pop Don Alan Pennebaker 1968 USA Vali Sheldon Rochlin 1967 USAShort Films Out of Competition Fleur Carnivore Carnivorous Flower Etats généraux du cinéma France
Tribute To Satyajit Ray Tribute To Satyajit Ray Original Title English Title Director Year Production Country Aparajito Untreated Satyajit Ray 1956 India Apur Sansar Satyajit Ray 1959 India Charulata Satyajit Ray 1964 India Devi Satyajit Ray 1960 India Jalshagar Jalasagar Satyajit Ray 1958 India Mahanagar Satyajit Ray 1963 India Paras Pathar Paras Stone Satyajit Ray 1957 India Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray 1955 India Rabindranath Tagore Satyajit Ray 1961 India Teen Kanya Satyajit Ray 1961 India
Official Awards Youth Jury
Golden Leopard, feature films: The Visionaries directed by Maurizio Ponzi Silver Leopard, jury special award, feature films: HOW LONG DOES MAN LIVE? by Judit Elek Silver Leopard for the best first feature, feature films: OSENNIE SVADJBY by Boris Yashin Mention, short films: LES CORBEAUX by Gisèle Ansorge and Ernest Ansorge, OD 3 DO 22 (ZENA) by Kreso Golik Mention, feature films: YELLOW SUBMARINE by George Dunning Golden Leopard, short films: O RUPAMA I CEPOVIMA by Ante Zaninovik Silver Leopard for the Best film of the Third World, feature films: VIAGEM AU FIM DO MUNDO by Fernando Campos Source:
References
External links
Locarno International Film Festival 1968 at Mubi