Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat clinched the Golden Leopard prize in the main international competition of the 75th Locarno Film Festival with her latest feature Rule 34. The film follows Simone, a…
The film follows Simone, a young law student who finds a passion for defending women in abuse cases. Yet her own sexual interests lead her to a world of violence and eroticism., which picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2017 Berlinale. The Brazillian filmmaker’s first film,Locarno’s Golden Leopard comes with a CHF 75,000 cash prize to be shared equally between the director and the producer. Murat produced the film alongside Tatiana Leite.
This year’s Golden Leopard competition jury was comprised of Swiss producer Michel Merkt, British filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond, French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, American producer William Horberg, and Italian director Laura Samani. In other main competition awards, the CHF 30,000 Special Jury Prize of the Cities of Ascona and Losone went to Italian director Alessandro Comodin’s, which follows Gigi, a rural traffic officer whose world is shifted after a young girl throws herself under a train.
Costa Rican filmmaker Valentina Maure and actors Daniela Marín and Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez picked up the best director, actress, and actor awards respectively for. The flick follows Eva, a 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister, and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.
This was the first full-scale edition of Locarno since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The festival opened with the international festival premiere of the Brad Pitt-starrerCheck out the full list of
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