The 66th Locarno Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 August 2013 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 20 films in the main competition of which 18 were world premieres and two were international premieres. In the Filmmakers of the Present competition 14 out of the 16 films were from first time directors.
The opening film was the international premiere of 2 Guns directed by Baltasar Kormákur on the Piazza Grande, the 8,000-seat open-air theater The closing film was the 2013 documentary On the Way to School directed by Pascal Plisson.
There was a retrospective of the work of director George Cukor in collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Cukor's film Rich and Famous starring Jacqueline Bisset was presented at the festival by Bisset herself. Hong Sang-soo had the world premiere of his film Our Sunhi, which won him Best Director in the main competition. Also featured was the third film, Exhibition, from emerging director Joanna Hogg. The winner in the Filmmakers of the Present competition was the innovative documentary Manakamana directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, which contains only 11 shots, all in real-time, entirely inside a cable car.
This was journalist and film critic Carlo Chatrian's first year as artistic director of the festival following the departure of Olivier Père in 2012. The Leopard of Honor was awarded to Werner Herzog and his film Fitzcarraldo was screened in tribute.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Story of My Death directed by Albert Serra.
Official Jury
Main Competition - (Concorso Internazionale)
Lav Diaz, Jury president and Filipino film director Juan de Dios Larraín, film producer Valérie Donzelli, French actress Yorgos Lanthimos, Greek director Matthias Brunner, Swiss cinema critic and historian
Official Sections
The following films were screened in these sections:
Piazza Grande Piazza Grande: Prefestival Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974 USA Il Giardino Dei Finzi-Contini The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Vittorio De Sica 1970 Italia
Piazza Grande English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country2 Guns Baltasar Kormákur 2013 USAAbout Time Richard Curtis 2013 Great BritainBlue Ruin Jeremy Saulnier 2013 USAFitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 1982 Repubblica Federale TedescaGabrielle Louise Archambault 2013 CanadaGloria Sebastián Lelio 2013 Chile The Human Factor La Variabile Umana Bruno Oliviero 2013 Italia Longwave Les Grandes Ondes (À L’Ouest) Lionel Baier 2013 Switzerland The Blocher Experience L’Expérience Blocher Jean-Stéphane Bron 2013 SwitzerlandMr. Morgan's Last Love Sandra Nettelbeck 2013 GermanyRich and Famous George Cukor 1981 USA On the Way to School Sur Le Chemin De L’École Pascal Plisson 2013 FranceThe Keeper of Lost Causes Kvinden i Buret Mikkel Nørgaard 2013 DenmarkVijay and I Sam Garbarski 2013 BelgiumWe're The Millers Rawson Marshall Thurber 2013 USAWrong Cops Quentin Dupieux 2013 France
Main Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country The Backwater Shinji Aoyama Japan Când Se Lasă Seara Peste Bucureşti Sau Metabolism When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism Corneliu Porumboiu Romania E Agora? Lembra-Me What Now? Remind Me Joaquim Pinto Portugal Educação Sentimental Sentimental Education Júlio Bressane Brazil El mudoThe Mute Daniel Vega, Diego Vega Peru Exhibition Joanna Hogg Great Britain Feuchtgebiete Wetlands David Wnendt Germany Gare Du Nord Claire Simon France Historia De La Meva Mort Story of My Death Albert Serra Spain L’Étrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Belgium Mary Queen of Scots Thomas Imbach Switzerland Pays Barbare Barbaric Land Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi France Real Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan Sangue Blood Pippo Delbono Italia Short Term 12 Destin Daniel Cretton USA Shu Jia Zuo YeA Time in Quchi Chang Tso-chi Taiwan Tableau Noir Blackboard Yves Yersin Switzerland Tonnerre Guillaume Brac France Uri Seonhui Our Sunhi Sang Soo Hong South Korea Une Autre Vie Another Life Emmanuel Mouret France
Filmmakers of the Present The Concorso Cineasti del Presente, also known as the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, showcases first and second feature films from emerging filmmakers.
Filmmakers of the Present Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Buqälämun Buqännun Elvin Adigozel, Rufat Hasanov 2013 Azerbaijan Costa Da Morte Costa Da Death Lois Patiño 2013 Spain Forty Years From Yesterday Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck 2013 USA Le Sens De L’Humour The Sense of Humor Marilyne Canto 2013 France Los Insólitos Peces Gato The Unusual Cats Claudia Sainte-Luce 2013 Mexico L’Harmonie Harmony Blaise Harrison 2013 France Manakamana Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez 2013 Nepal Mouton Gilles Deroo, Gilles Deroo, Marianne Pistone 2012 France Roxanne Valentin Hotea 2013 Romania Sai Nam Tid Shoer Sai Nam Time Shoer Nontawat Numbenchapol 2013 Thailand The Dirties Matt Johnson 2013 USA The Special Need Carlo Zoratti 2013 Germany The Stone Se-rae Cho 2013 South Korea The Ugly One Éric Baudelaire 2013 France The Unity Of All Things 物之合 The Unity of All Things Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt 2013 USA Yuan Fang Zhengfan Yang 2013 China
Out of Competition
Out of Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Bring The Sun Home Chiara Andrich, Giovanni Pellegrini 2013 Italia Géographie Humaine Human Geography Claire Simon 2013 France Heritage David Induni 2013 Switzerland Indebito Undue Andrea Segre 2013 Italia La Passione Di Erto Erto's Passion Penelope Bortoluzzi 2013 France Que D’Amour That of Love Valérie Donzelli 2013 France Se Eu Fosse Ladrão... Roubava If I Were a Thief ... Stole Paulo Rocha 2012 Portugal
Out of Competition: Death Row Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country On Death Row - Portrait: Robert Fratta Werner Herzog 2013 USA On Death Row - Portrait: Darlie Routier Werner Herzog 2013 USA On Death Row - Portrait: Blaine Milam Werner Herzog 2013 USA On Death Row - Portrait: Douglas Feldman Werner Herzog 2013 USA
Out of Competition: Focus on Syria Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Black Stone Nidal Al-Dibs 2006 Syria Hekayat An Elhob Walhayat Walmawt Tales that Love, Life and Death Nidal Hassan, Lilibeth Rasmussen 2012 Syria Light Horizon Randa Maddah 2012 Syria Untold Stories Hisham al-Zouki 2013 Syria Zabad Avad Reem Ali 2008 Syria
Out of Competition: Jeonju Digital Project 2013 - Stranger Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Over There ZHANG Lu 2013 South Korea Someone’S Wife In The Boat Of Someone’S Husband Edwin 2013 South Korea Strangers When We Meet Masahiro Kobayashi 2013 Japan
Out of Competition: Shorts Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country America Valerie Massadian 2013 France Attesa Di UnʼEstate (Frammenti Di Vita Trascorsa) Waiting for a Summer (Fragments of Past Life) Mauro Santini 2013 Italia During The Day My Vision Is Perfect Benjamin Ramírez Pérez 2013 Germany Le Tableau The Table Laurent Achard 2013 France Lo Que El Fuego Me Trajo What the Fire Brought Me Adrián Villar Rojas 2013 Argentina Los Andes The Andes Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña 2012 Chile Mahjong João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues 2013 Portugal O Corpo De Afonso Afonso's Body João Pedro Rodrigues 2013 Portugal Sorcière Japonaise Japanese Witch Romeo Grünfelder 2013 Germany The End Of Walnut Grove Ölfilmer 2013 Austria The Green Serpent - Of Vodka, Men And Distilled Dreams Benny Jaberg 2013 Switzerland Un Conte De Michel De Montaigne A Tale by Michel De Montaigne Jean-Marie Straub 2012 France
Out of Competition: Signs of Life Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Ben Rivers, Ben Russell 2013 France Cherry Pie Lorenz Merz 2013 Switzerland Dignity James Fotopoulos 2012 USA El Futuro The Future Luis López Carrasco 2013 Spain How To Disappear Completely Raya Martin 2013 Philippines
Open Doors
Open Doors: Artavazd Pelechian Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Kiank Artavazd Pelechian 1993 Armenia Menk Artavazd Pelechian 1969 ex URSS Mer Dare More Dare Artavazd Pelechian 1982 ex URSS Skisb Ski Artavazd Pelechian 1967 ex URSS Vertch Artavazd Pelechian 1992 Armenia
Open Doors: Screenings Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 13 Tzameti Géla Babluani 2005 France 27 Dakarguli Kotsna27 Missing Kisses Nana Djordjadze 2000 Germany Alaverdi Maria Saakyan 2013 Armenia Chemi Sabnis Naketsi Zaza Rusadze 2013 Georgia Embers Tamara Stepanyan 2012 Armenia Gaigimet Keep Smiling Rusudan Chkonia 2012 Georgia Khchchvats Zugaherner Hovhannes Galstyan 2009 Armenia Mardkayin Patmutyun Paterazmi Yev Khaghaghutyan Orerits Two Dies with Two Strokes in the Cheerfulness of Araretz Vardan Hovhannisyan 2007 Armenia Mayak Beacon Fariz Ahmedov 2012 Azerbaijan Mi Nayir Hayelun Suren Babayan 2010 Armenia Netavi Ik Teatri Aris?! Nana Janelidze 2011 Georgia Return Of The Poet Harutyun Khachatryan 2006 Armenia Sahe Pitch Ilgar Safat 2010 Azerbaijan Saroyanland Lusin Dink 2013 Turkey Tbilisi-Tbilisi Levan Zaqareishvili 2005 Georgia Yarasa Bat Ayaz Salayev 1995 Azerbaijan Ösga Vaxt Huseyn Mehdiyev 1996 Azerbaijan
Leopards of Tomorrow Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)
Special Programs Special Programs - Leopards of TomorrowOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Répondre À La Commande, Détourner, Remonter Respond to the Order, Divert, Go Up Jean Bacchetta, Richard Dindo, Yervant Gianikian, Raphaël Harari, Deborah Helle, Catherine Ofwono Anyango, Jean Perret, Sophie Perrier, Thomas Reichlin, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Julie Sando, Zahra Vargas, Julie Yara Zimmermann, Line de Kaenel 2013 Switzerland
International Competition International Competition - Leopards of Tomorrow Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 6 Stora Fiskar 6 Large Fish Stefan Constantinescu 2013 Sweden Acrobat Eduardo Menz 2012 Canada Chigger Ale Fanta Ananas 2013 Ethiopia Dead End Tonia Mishiali 2013 Cyprus D’Où Que Vienne La Douleur Wherever the Pain Comes from Khalil Cherti 2013 France Endorphin Reza Gamini 2013 Iran Fun City Justin Olstein 2012 Australia Here Come The Girls Young Jean Lee 2013 USA La Quietud The Stillness Inés María Barrionuevo 2012 Argentina La Strada Di Raffael Raffael's Road Alessandro Falco 2013 Italia Les Jours D’Avant The Days Before Karim Moussaoui 2013 France Los Pálidos The Pale Martin Kalina 2013 Argentina Nasza Klątwa Our Curse Tomasz Sliwinski 2013 Poland Plimbare Walk Mihaela Popescu 2012 Romania Pride Pavel Vesnakov 2013 Bulgaria Quelqu’Un D’Extraordinaire Someone Extraordinary Monia Chokri 2013 Canada Tadpoles Ivan Tan 2013 Singapour Tremor Ricardo Alves jr. 2013 Brazil Vehu Holech Elad Keidan 2012 France Versailles Carlos Conceição 2013 Portugal Von Hunden Und Tapeten From Dogs and Wallpapers Visar Morina 2013 Germany Z1 Gabriel Gauchet 2013 Great Britain Zima Turn Off Cristina Picchi 2013 Russia Zinneke Inz Rémi Allier 2013 Belgium
National Competition National Competition - Leopards of TomorrowOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction country Alfonso Jan-Eric Mack 2013 Switzerland Bonne Espérance Good Hope Kaspar Schiltknecht 2013 Switzerland Freunde Friends Luca Ribler 2012 Switzerland Hasta Santiago To Santiago Mauro Carraro 2013 Switzerland La Fille Aux Feuilles The Girl with Leaves Marina Rosset 2013 Switzerland Lui, Hitler Et Moi Him, Hitler and Me Nathan Hofstetter 2013 Switzerland Skinny Boy Lawrence Blankenbyl 2013 Switzerland Sortie De Route Output Tristan Aymon, David Maye 2013 Switzerland Vigia Vigine Marcel Barelli 2013 Switzerland ’A Iucata 'To Get Michele Pennetta 2013 Switzerland
History (s) of Cinema