The 47th Locarno Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 August 1994 in Locarno, Switzerland. This year saw the first release of films with funding from the Locarno festival through its Montecinemaverita foundation. Two films funded by the festival, Bab El-Oued City directed by Merzak Allouache and El Dirigible (The Airship) directed by Pablo Dotta, were screened this year at Locarno and Cannes Film Festivals.

On the Piazza Grande, the 7,000-seat open-air theater, two newly discovered John Cassettes TV movies were screened along with Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and the world premiere of Le Franc directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. While, the Leopards of Tomorrow section featured short works from film schools around the world.

A trilogy of Abbas Kiarostami pictures were shown at the festival. Accompanying these screenings was a brand new documentary about Kiarostami. The Locarno festival was an early champion of his work and had shown a particular interest in Iranian film. This year two Iranian films had their international premiere in competition. Both were originally shot in 1992, but had generated a lot of controversy in Iran and were only released this year.

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to The Jar directed by Ebrahim Forouzesh.

Jury John Waters, American director Chantal Akerman, Belgian director Aureilo Grimaldi, Italian director Clara Law Chuck-Yu, Hong Kong director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian director. Dominique Paini, French critic Theres Sherer-Kollbrunner, Swiss Yermek Shinarbayev, Kazakhstan director Cy Twombly, American artist

Official Sections 1994

The following films were screened in these sections:

Piazza Grande

The Piazza Grande is the 7,000-seat open-air theater assembled in the town square each year. This year it had 29 x 20 meter screen. English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production CountryA Pair Of Boots John Cassavetes 1962 USAThe Emigrant Al-Mouhaguer Youssef Chahine 1994 Egypt, FranceExotica Atom Egoyan 1994 Canada The Whores Le Buttane Aurelio Grimaldi 1994 ItaliaLe Franc Djibril Diop Mambéty 1994 Senegal, SwitzerlandMuriel's Wedding P. J. Hogan 1994 AustraliaPulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994 USA No Skin Senza Pelle Alessandro D'Alatri 1994 ItaliaSpeed Jan de Bont 1994 USA Night Train Train De Nuit Michel Piccoli 1994 France Three Colours: Red Trois Couleurs: Rouge Krzysztof Kieślowski 1993 France, Poland Too Much Sun Troppo Sole Giuseppe Bertolucci 1993 ItaliaEat Drink Man Woman Yinshi Nannü Ang Lee 1994 Taiwan Crime Story 重案組 Kirk Wong 1993 Hong Kong Through the Olive Trees Zir E Darakhtan-E Zeytun Abbas Kiarostami 1994 Iran

Main Competition Main Competition of Feature Films English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production CountryThe Abadanis Abadani-Ha Kianoush Ayari 1993 Iran Babylon: Fear is Man's Best Friend Babylon: La Paura È La Migliore Amica Dell'Uomo Guido Chiesa 1994 Italia Movie Days Biodagar Fridrik Thor Fridriksson 1993 Iceland Chungking Express Chongqing Senlin Wong Kar-wai 1994 Hong Kong Like Two Crocodiles Come Due Coccodrilli Giacomo Campiotti 1993 Italia, France Emmène-Moi Michel Spinosa 1994 FranceErmo Zhou Xiaowen 1994 ChinaJoe & Marie Tania Stöcklin 1994 SwitzerlandTo the Starry Island Keusome Kakosipta Park Kwang-su 1993 South KoreaThe Jar Khomreh Ebrahim Forouzesh 1992 Iran The Flood L'Inondation Igor Minaiev 1993 Russia, France The Sex Lives of Belgians La Vie Sexuelle Des Belges Jan Bucquoy 1994 Belgium Crystal Book Le Livre De Cristal Patricia Plattner 1994 Switzerland Lou n'a pas dit non Anne-Marie Miéville 1994 France, Switzerland Marie's Song: I Was I Know Not Where Maries Lied Ich War Ich Weiss Nicht Wo Niko Brücher 1994 GermanyBorder Line Metechmio Panos Karkanevatos 1993 GreecePax Eduardo Guedes 1994 Portugal Nobody Loves Me Personne ne m'aime Marion Vernoux 1993 France, SwitzerlandRosine Lisa Fässler 1994 FranceThe Glass Shield Charles Burnett 1993 USAViva Castro! Boris Frumin 1993 Russia

Filmmakers of the Present Filmmakers of the Present - Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Au Nom Du Duce On Behalf of the Duce Kira Muratova 1994 Israel, France Cortile Cascino Cascino Courtyard Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young 1961 USA Dans La Vallee De La Wupper In the Wupper Vallee Kira Mouratova 1994 Israel, France Déjà S'Envole La Fleur Maigre Already Fly Away the Skinny Flower Paul Meyer Belgium Foix Luc Moullet 1994 France, Georgia Les Enfants Jouent À La Russie Children Play Russia Jean-Luc Godard 1993 Switzerland, France Lothringen! Lorraine! Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 1994 Germany Queen Mary '87 Danièle Huillet 1993 Israel, France Seule, Georgie Alone, Georgie Otar Iosseliani 1994 France, Georgia Toujours Plus Ever more Luc Moullet 1994 France, Georgia Tracking Down Maggie Nick Broomfield 1994 USA TV Nation Michael Moore 1993 USA Veillees D'Armes (Le Journalisme En Temps De Guerre) Weapons (Journalism in Wartime) Marcel Ophuls 1994 France, Georgia Zenshin Shosetsu Theory of the Whole Body Kazuo Hara 1994 Japan

Leopards of Tomorrow Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani) in Competition Canadian Short Films – In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country At The Races Daniel Conrad 1994 Canada Ave Verum Corpus Hail True Body Luise-Marie Beauchamp, Alain Des Rochers 1993 Canada Blue Don McKellar 1992 Canada Frank'S Cock Mike Hoolboom 1993 Canada Girl From Moush Gariné Torossian 1993 Canada Le Petit Musee De Velasquez The Small Velasquez Museum Bernar Hébert 1994 Canada Le Retraité The Retiree Yves Bélanger 1994 Canada Mama'S Boy Tony Asimakopoulos 1992 Canada Off Key Karethe Linaae 1994 Canada Rew F. Fwd Denis Villeneuve 1994 Canada Stroke Mark Sawers 1992 Canada The Night I Was Wed Lori Lansens 1993 Canada The Passion Of Rita Camilleri Valerie Buhagiar 1993 Canada The Roccotello Files Andrew Nisker 1993 Canada The Station Trenton Carlson 1993 Canada Weight Of The World Brian Stockton 1994 Canada Without Rockets Gary Yates 1994 Canada You Love Me & I Hate You Rosamund Owen 1994 CanadaAmerican Short Films – In CompetitionOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Avenue X Leslie McCleave 1993 USA Brief Gardens Nora Hoppe 1993 USA Bullethead David Munro 1993 USA Central Park Sande Zeig 1994 USA Cigarettes And Coffee Paul Thomas Anderson 1992 USA Dance Gary Goldberg 1993 USA Dropping The Bomb On My Street Nora Maccoby 1994 USA Family Remains Tamara Jenkins 1993 USA Leftovers Paul Reuter 1992 USA Maintenance Jesse Feigelman 1994 USA Night Ride Andrew Garrison 1993 USA Notes On A Scale Kenn Kashima 1994 USA Ollywoo Jon Stout 1994 USA Outside Matt Danciger 1993 USA Pleasant Hill, U.S.A. Joshua Wintrigham 1993 USA Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade George Hickenlooper 1994 USA That Happens Leonardo Veras 1994 USA The Cage Noah Lerner 1994 USA The Clean Up Jane Weinstock 1993 USA The Last Good Breath Kimberly Peirce 1993 USA The Obit Writer Brian Cox 1993 USA The Salesman And Other Adventures Hannah Weyer 1994 USA The Smell Of Burning Ants Jay Rosenblatt 1994 USA Think Tank James Carman 1993 USA Ti-Boy'S Wife Richard Blue Lormand 1993 USA Tommy'S Barry Ellsworth 1993 USASwiss Short Films – In CompetitionOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country 8, Rue Vavin Michael Peterli 1993 Switzerland B8 - E 1! Stefan Jäger 1994 Switzerland Bel Canto Belly François Bovy 1994 Switzerland Berg Partikel Mountain Particle Richard Vetterli 1994 Switzerland Cap Vert François Kohler 1994 Switzerland Celine Hedi Bäbler 1993 Switzerland Gänsehaut Goose Flesh Laszlo Kish, Kurt Reinhard 1993 Switzerland Il Lattaio Lacta Michelangelo Gandolfi 1994 Switzerland Jagdzeit Jagga Rolando Colla 1994 Switzerland Le Songe D'Isaac Isaac's Dream Ursula Meier 1994 Switzerland Nu Comme Un Poisson Naked Like a Fish Patrick Bürge 1994 Switzerland Regarde-Moi Look at Me Elisabeth Aubert 1993 Switzerland The Amazing Alexander Misha Gyorik 1993 Switzerland Und Tschüss And Goodbye Walter Feistle, Stephane Schneider 1993 Switzerland Villes Mises En Scène: Cergy-Pontoise Une Ville Bien Dans Son Temps Cities Staged: Cergy-Pontoise a City Well in Its Time Stefan Meichtry, Felix Schaad 1994 Switzerland Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani) Out-of-Competition Atom Egoyan - Special ProgramOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction countryEn PassantPassingAtom Egoyan1992CanadaHoward In ParticularAtom Egoyan1979CanadaOpen HouseAtom Egoyan1982CanadaPeep HouseAtom Egoyan1981CanadaSpecial Program Direct By "¿" Smoking Matthew Modine 1994 USA The Last Supper Daryl Hannah 1993 USASwiss Animation Cadavre Exquis Exquisite Corpse Schweizer Trickfimgruppe 1993 Switzerland Hoffen Auf Bessere Zeiten Hope for Better Times Jonas Raeber 1993 Switzerland Thaumatrope- Robert Fulton Tanner Dolores Camenisch 1993 Switzerland Unko For Them Remo Höpfliger 1994 Switzerland Zehn Kleine Negerlein Ten Little Negroes Jochen Ehmann 1993 Switzerland À La Recherche D'Adèle In Search of Adèle Martial Wannaz 1993 Switzerland Über Den Tag Hinaus Beyond the Day Robi Müller 1994 SwitzerlandTribute To the 30th Anniversary of the Solothurn Film Festival (Hommage aux 30 ans des Journées cinématographiques de Soleure) Blumengedicht Flower Poem Peter von Gunten 1967 Switzerland C'Etait Un Dimanche En Automne... It Was a Sunday in the Fall ... Claude Champion 1970 Switzerland Chicoree Fredi M. Murer 1966 Switzerland Fed-Up Villi Hermann 1969 Switzerland Le Panier À Viande The Meat Basket Hedi Bäbler, Yves Yersin 1966 Switzerland Pic-Nic Georg Randanowicz 1967 Switzerland Vita Parcoeur Rolf Lyssy 1970 Switzerland

Retrospective – Frank Tashlin

Cartoons Frank Tashlin / Cartoons Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Behind the Meat Ball Frank Tashlin 1945 USA Booby Hatched Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Brother Brat Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Censored Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Cinderella Goes to a Party Frank Tashlin 1942 USA Corny Concerto Frank Tashlin 1943 USA Cracked Ice Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Hare Remover Frank Tashlin 1946 USA Have You Got Any Castles? Frank Tashlin 1938 USA I Got Plenty of Mutton Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Little Beau Porky Frank Tashlin 1936 USA Little Pancho Vanilla Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Nasty Quacks Frank Tashlin 1945 USA Now That Summer Is Gone Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Plane Daffy Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Porky at the Crocadero Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Porky in the North Woods Frank Tashlin 1936 USA Porky Pig's Feat Frank Tashlin 1943 USA Porky The Fireman Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Porky's Double Trouble Frank Tashlin 1937 USA Porky's Poultry Plant Frank Tashlin 1936 USA Porky's Railroad Frank Tashlin 1937 USA Porky's Romance Frank Tashlin 1937 USA Porky's Spring Planting Frank Tashlin 1938 USA Puss n' Booty Frank Tashlin 1943 USA Scrap Happy Daffy Frank Tashlin 1943 USA Speaking of the Weather Frank Tashlin 1937 USA Tales of Two Mice Frank Tashlin 1945 USA The Case of the Stuttering Pig Frank Tashlin 1937 USA The Fox and the Grapes Frank Tashlin 1941 USA The Home Front Frank Tashlin 1943 USA The Major Lied 'Til Dawn Frank Tashlin 1938 USA The Stupid Cupid Frank Tashlin 1944 USA Swooner Crooner Frank Tashlin 1944 USA The Unruly Hare Frank Tashlin 1945 USA The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos Frank Tashlin 1937 USA Wholly Smoke Frank Tashlin 1938 USA You're an Education Frank Tashlin 1938 USA

Feature films