The 39th Locarno Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 August 1986 in Locarno, Switzerland. A special section paying tribute to writer Ennio Flaiano, who worked on such films as La Notte and La Dolce Vita, was screened. Another retrospective tribute section was held for deceased Swiss actor François Simon. A ceremony dedicated to him was attended by his colleagues Jeanne Moreau, Alan Tanner, Thomas Koerfer, and Daniel Schmid. The normal Critics Week section was not held this year. There was also a surprise screening of A Lonely Woman, which was director Agnieszka Holland's last film she made in Poland before leaving.
This year, two films shot scenes at the festival, on location, for use in future movies, including what would become the 1987 film Remake directed by Ansano Giannarelli.
The director of the TV section, Giancarlo Bertelli, who pioneered the television movie competition at the Locarno film festival, was vindicated when the FIAPF adopted his rules as the framework for all future television competitions at other festivals. The television section continued to be a growing part of the festival and attracted many television buyers from networks, including RAI.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Jezioro Bodeńskie directed by Janusz Zaorski.
Juries International Jury – Main Competition Ida di Benedetto, Italian actress Henri Alekan, French cinematographer Donald Richie, American writer and film historian Fredi M. Murer, Swiss film director Krysztof Kieslowski, Polish director and writer Hanns Zischler, German actor Lea Pool, Canadian-Swiss director and writer
TV Jury Elke Baur, German TV director Sandro Bertossa, Swiss Jean-Michel Ribes, French writer and director Howard Shuman, British writer and director Mario Soldati, Italian writer and director
Official Sections
The following films were screened in these sections:
Main Competition
Feature films Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 40m2 Deutschland Forty Square Meters of Germany Tevfik Baser1986 Germany Com Licença Eu Vou À Luta Excuse Me I Go to the Fight Luis Farias 1986 Brazil Debshishu Utpalendu Chakraborty 1986 India Diapason Tuning Fork Jorge Polaco 1986 Argentina Die Walsche The Walsche Werner Masten 1986 Germany Dolce Assenza The Sweet Absence Claudio Sestieri 1986 Italy Double Messieurs Double Gentlemen Jean-François Stévenin 1986 France Ghame Afghan Zmarai Kasi, Mark Rissi 1986 Switzerland Jezioro Bodeńskie Janusz Zaorski 1986 Poland Jour Et Nuit Day and Night Jean-Bernard Menoud 1986 Switzerland Kali Patridha SyndropheHappy Homecoming Comrade Lefteris Xanthopoulos 1986 Greece Kayako No Tameni For Kayako Kohei Oguri 1985 Japan Lamb Colin Gregg 1985 Great Britain Liechang Zhasa On the Hunting Ground Zhuangzhuang Tian 1985 China Memories D'Un Juif Tropical Memories of a Tropical Jew Joseph Morder 1984 France Moj Droug Ivan Lapchin My Friend Ivan Lapshin Aleksei Yuryevich German 1984 Russia Una Casa In Bilico A House in the Balance Antonietta De Lillo, Giorgio Magliulo 1986 Italy
Television Movies
TV-Movies In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Better Class Of Person Frank Cvitanovich 1985 Great Britain A Time To Live Rick Wallace 1985 USA An Early Frost John Erman 1985 USA Avanti Popolo Forward People Rafi Bukaee 1986 Israel Choma Ke Nero Employees Chocmore Fredy Vianellis 1985 Greece Hautnah Up Close Peter Schulze-Rohr 1985 Germany Love Is Never Silent Joseph Sargent 1985 USA Mrs. Delafield Wants To Marry George Schaefer 1986 USA Passion Flower Joseph Sargent 1986 USA Piege À Flics Cop Trap Dominique Othenin-Girard 1986 Switzerland Silas Marner Giles Foster 1985 Great Britain Silent Twins Jon Amiel 1986 Great Britain Thicker Than Water Gray Hofmeyer 1986 South Africa Turning To Stone Eric Till 1986 Canada
Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Main Program / Feature Films Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Anne Trister Léa Pool 1985 Canada Dawandeh Amir Naderi 1984 Iran Der Pendler The Commuter Bernhard Giger 1986 Switzerland Desert Bloom Eugene Corr 1985 USA Down By Law Jim Jarmusch 1985 USA Frida-Naturaleza Viva Frida-Naturalza Viva Paul Leduc 1984 Mexico Genesis Mrinal Sen 1986 India, France Home Of The Brave Laurie Anderson 1985 USA La Messa È Finita The Mass is over Nanni Moretti 1985 Italy Laputa Helma Sanders-Brahms 1986 Germany Maine Ocean Jacques Rozier 1986 France Mambru Se Fue A La Guerre Mambru Went to the Guerre Fernando Fernán Gómez 1986 Spain Motten Im Licht Moths in the Light Urs Egger 1986 Switzerland My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears 1985 Great Britain Müllers Büro Müller's Office Niki List 1986 Austria Noir Et Blanc Black and White Claire Devers 1985 France Rih Essed Nouri Bouzid 1986 Tunisia She's Gotta Have It Spike Lee 1986 USA Shin Yorokoby Mo Kanashimi Mo Ikutoshitsuki New Joy by and Sadness Have Been Around for many Years Keisuke Kinoshita 1985 Japan Sleepwalk Sara Driver 1985 USA Tong Nien Wang Shi Tong NIE Wang Shi Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1986 Taiwan Trouble In Mind Alan Rudolph 1985 USA Um Adeus Portugues A Portuguese Goodbye João Botelho 1985 Portugal Visszaszamlalas Countdown Pal Erdöss 1985 Hungary
Special Sections
Greek National Cinema Week Greek National Cinema Week Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Anaparastasi The Reconstruction Theo Angelopoulos 1970 Greece I Dromi Tis Agapis Ine Nichterini Love Wanders in the Night Frieda Liappa 1981 Greece Karkalou Shrimp Stavros Tornes 1984 Greece O Megalexandros Alexander the Great Theo Angelopoulos 1980 Greece O Thiassos The Travelling Players Theo Angelopoulos 1975 Greece O Vlasmos Tis Aphroditis The Rape of Aphrodite Andreas Panzis 1985 Greece Petrina Chronia The Stone Years Pantelis Voulgaris 1985 Greece Taxidi Sta Kythira Voyage to Cythera Theo Angelopoulos 1984 Greece Topos Antonietta Anghelidi 1985 Greece VarietéVarietes Nikos Panayotopoulos 1984 Greece
Retrospective – Keisuke Kinoshita Keisuke Kinoshita RetrospectiveOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Eien No Hito Eternal Person Keisuke Kinoshita 1961 Japan Fuefukigawa Fuefuki River Keisuke Kinoshita 1960 Japan Fuzen No Tomoshibi The Light of Failure Keisuke Kinoshita 1957 Japan HakaiApostasy Keisuke Kinoshita 1948 Japan Hanasaku Minato Flowering Port Keisuke Kinoshita 1943 Japan Haru No Yume Spring Dream Keisuke Kinoshita 1960 Japan Karumen Junjosu Carmen's Pure Love Keisuke Kinoshita 1952 Japan Karumen Kokyo Ni Kaeru Carmen Comes Home Keisuke Kinoshita 1951 Japan Koge Boil Keisuke Kinoshita 1964 Japan Narayama Bushi-Ko Heijoyama be C-Ko Keisuke Kinoshita 1958 Japan Nihon No Higeki A Japanese Tragedy Keisuke Kinoshita 1953 Japan Nijushi No Hitomi Twenty-Four Eyes Keisuke Kinoshita 1954 Japan Nogiku No Gotoki Kimi Nariki She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum Keisuke Kinoshita 1955 Japan Onna No Sono The Garden of Women Keisuke Kinoshita 1954 Japan Onna Woman Keisuke Kinoshita 1948 Japan Osoneke No Asa Late Sleep at Home Morning Keisuke Kinoshita 1946 Japan Rikugun Army Keisuke Kinoshita 1944 Japan Shinshaku Yotsua Kaidan (I-Ii) The Yotsuya Ghost Story I & II Keisuke Kinoshita 1949 Japan Shonenki First Year Keisuke Kinoshita 1951 Japan Taiko To Bara Drum and Rose Keisuke Kinoshita 1956 Japan Yuyakegumo Sunset Tools Too Keisuke Kinoshita 1956 Japan
Special Program Special ProgramOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country A Futura Memoria- Pier Paolo Pasolini To Future Memory- Pier Paolo Pasolini Ivo Barnabo Micheli 1985 Italy Dans La Nuit Overnight Charles Vanel 1929 France De La Vie De Potapov From the Vineyard of Potapov Nikolai Skouibine Russia Der Nachbar The Neighbor Markus Fischer Switzerland Die Schwarze Perle The Black Pearl Ueli Mamin 1986 Switzerland Half Life Denis O'Rourke 1985 Australia Kobieta Samotna A Lonely Woman Agnieszka Holland 1981 Poland Le Voyage De Noemie Noemie's Journey Michel Rodde 1986 Switzerland Vozes Da Alma Voices of the Soul Peter von Gunten 1986 Switzerland Yawar Mayu Yawar May Araken Vaz Galvao Brazil
Tribute To
Tribute To Ennio Flaiano Tribute To Ennio Flaiano, ScreenwriterOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Fantasmi A Roma Ghosts in Rome Antonio Pietrangeli 1961 Italy Guardie E Ladri Guards and Thieves Steno Monicelli 1951 Italy La Notte Michelangelo Antonioni 1960 Italy 8½ Federico Fellini 1963 Italy Peccato Che Sia Una Canaglia Too Bad It's a Rogue Alessandro Blasetti 1955 Italy Roma Città Libera, La Notte Porta Consiglio Rome Free City, the Night Brings Advice Marcello Pagliero 1946 Italy
Tribute To François Simon Tribute To François Simon (1917-1982)Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Charles Mort Ou Vif? Charles Dead or Lively? Alain Tanner 1969 Switzerland Der Tod Des Flohzirkusdirektors The Death of the Flea Circus Director Thomas Koerfer 1973 Switzerland François Simon - La Presence François Simon - The Presence Louis Mouchet, Ana Simon 1986 Switzerland La Grande Guerre Du Sonderbund The Great War of the Sonderbund Alain Bloch 1982 Switzerland Les Chemins De L'Exil The Paths of Exile Claude Goretta 1979 Switzerland Les Mefaits Du Tabac MEFAITS of TOBAC Roger Burckhardt 1981 Switzerland Lumière Light Jeanne Moreau 1976 France
Swiss Information Swiss Information - DocumentariesOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Der Schöne Augenblick The Nice Moment Pio Corradi, Friedrich Kappeler 1985 Switzerland Die Sinkende Arche The Falling Ark Bernhard Lehner, Konrad Wittmer 1986 Switzerland La Scomparsa Di Ettore Maiorana The Disappearance of Ettore Maiorana Fosco Dubini, Donatello Dubini 1986 SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Fiction Feature Augenblick Franz Reichle 1986 Switzerland Das Kalte Paradies The Cold Paradise Bernard Safarik Switzerland Der Schwarze Tanner The Black Tanner Xavier Koller 1986 Switzerland Edvige Scimitt Edvige Scimite Mathias Zschokke 1985 Switzerland El Suizo, Un Amour En Espagne El Suizo, a Love in Spain Richard Dindo 1985 Switzerland Hammer Bruno Moll 1986 Switzerland Marlove-Eine Ode Für Heisenberg Marlove-Ein Ode for Heisenberg Bernard Safarik 1986 Switzerland No Man'S Land Alain Tanner 1985 Switzerland Precis Just Véronique Goël 1985 Switzerland Signé Renart Signed Renart Michel Soutter 1985 SwitzerlandSwiss Information - Shorts And Fictional Films A Name Or Her Desire Jakob Berger 1985 Switzerland Basta It Just is Anne Cuneo 1986 Switzerland Der Junge Eskimo The Young Eskimo Peter Volkart 1986 Switzerland Love Inc. Franz Walser 1985 Switzerland Movie Star Markus Imboden 1986 Switzerland Questions D'Optique Optical Questions Claude Luyet 1986 Switzerland Travaux D'Approche Approach Claude Luyet Switzerland Trott Till Dellers, Ruben Dellers 1986 Switzerland Verhängte Ineinander Die Glieder, Die Bleichen Imposed the Limbs, the Bleaching Rainer M. Trinkler Switzerland Zum Beispiel Sonja W. For Example Sonja W. Jörg Helbling 1986 Switzerland
Official Awards
International Jury
Golden Leopard: Jezioro Bodeńskie directed by Janusz Zaorski Silver Leopard: 40m2 Deutschland directed by Tevfik Baser Bronze Leopard: Lamb directed by Colin Gregg Ernest Artaria Prize: My Friend Ivan Lapshin directed by Aleksei Yuryevich German Special Mention: Kali Patridha Syndrophe (Happy Homecoming Comrade) directed by Lefteris Xanthopoulos, Fernanda Torres in Com Licença Eu Vou À Luta, Diapason directed by Jorge Polac
TV Jury
Golden Leopard's Eye: Avanti Popolo directed by Rafi Buki Silver Leopard's Eye: Hautnah directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr Bronze Leopard's Eye: Love Is Never Silent directed by Joseph Sargent
FIPRESCI Critics Jury
FIPRESCI Prize: My Friend Ivan Lapshin directed by Aleksei Yuryevich German Mention: 40m2 Deutschland directed by Tevfik Baser, Kayako No Tameni (For Kayako) directed by Kohei Oguri Source:
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