Sho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Wins at Locarno

Sho Miyake’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” has received Locarno’s high award, its Golden Leopard for titles enjoying within the Swiss competition’s most important Worldwide Competitors.

As observed by Selection, the movie was warmly obtained on the competition, charming the critics with its story of two individuals who meet by the ocean. Primarily based on the manga “Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside” by Yoshiharu Tsuge, it’s offered by Bitters Finish.

Jury president Rithy Panh and jury members Joslyn Barnes, Ursina Lardi, Carlos Reygadas and Renée Soutendijk additionally acknowledged “White Snail” by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, which scored Locarno’s Particular Jury Prize and greatest efficiency for Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov. The movie, a couple of Belarusian mannequin dreaming of a profession in China, slowly transforms right into a love story between two outsiders.

One other performing award went to Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselčić, prized for theur perfirmances in Hana Jušić’s “God Will Not Assist“. Croatian director wished to touch upon the “troubling resurgence of so-called ‘conventional values,’ typically couched in nostalgic fantasies of patriarchal order,” she stated.

She additionally aimed to “reclaim the determine of the witch, a historic image of feminine defiance and nonconformity, towards these makes an attempt to re-domesticate ladies’s our bodies and wishes. With this movie, I wished to recommend that figures like Teresa and [shepherdess] Milena may simply be amongst us in the present day: ladies who unsettle the constructions that search to self-discipline them.”

Greatest path award went to Abbas Fahdel for “Tales of the Wounded Land,” whereas Alexandre Koberidze’s “Dry Leaf” obtained a Particular Point out. In his much-anticipated follow-up to “What Do We See When We Take a look at the Sky?,” he focuses on a father searching for his daughter, ending up with an uncommon highway film.

In a significant sidebar on the competition, Filmmakers of the Current, devoted to rising expertise, the Golden Lepoard went Pardo d’Oro was given to “Hair, Paper, Water…” by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý. 

Cecilia Kang received its Rising Director Award for “Hijo Main”, opening up about her story of the migration journey of a Korean household to Argentina in quest of a greater life.

“I believe I make movies as a strategy to perceive who I’m,” Kang advised Selection. 

“My very own sense of id has all the time been formed by this cultural duality. Though it has nourished me in some ways, it has additionally been a fancy and contradictory presence in my life – at instances even a painful one.”

Levan Gelbakhiani, performing in “Don’t Let the Solar” by Jacqueline Zünd, additionally earned recognition, in addition to Margherita Spampinato‘s “Sweetheart” – a lighthearted drama a couple of boy spending his summer season with an aged girl. It went on to earn two awards: Particular Jury Prize Cine+ and a efficiency Leopard for veteran actor Aurora Quattrocchi.

Quattrocchi was the one skilled actor within the solid.

“We held a casting in [Sicilian city] Trapani, searching for actual grandmothers, nonnas. They had been cute and actually loved staying collectively. They had been all the time on set, even when it wasn’t wanted. Additionally, they all the time inspired me. They all the time known as me ‘gioia mia,’ ‘my pleasure,’ too. That half [of making the film] was actually magical,” recalled the director.

She added: “Once I advised them we had been chosen by Locarno, they simply stated: ‘We all the time knew it might work out’.” 

Right here is the total listing of awards:

Worldwide CompetitionPardo d’Oro – Grand Prize of the Competition and Metropolis of LocarnoCHF 75,000 ($93,000) to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:“Two Seasons, Two Strangers” by Sho Miyake, Japan

Particular Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and LosoneCHF 30,000 ($37,200) to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:“White Snail” by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, Austria, Germany

Leopard for Greatest Path – Metropolis and Area of LocarnoCHF 20,000 ($24,800) to the director, to:Abbas Fahdel for “Tales of the Wounded Land,” Lebanon

Leopard for Greatest Efficiency to Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselčić for “God Will Not Assist” by Hana Jušić, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia

Leopard for Greatest Efficiency to Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov for “White Snail” 

Particular Point out“Dry Leaf” by Alexandre Koberidze, Germany/Georgia

Filmmakers of the Current CompetitionGolden LeopardCHF 35,000 ($43,400) to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:“Hair, Paper, Water…” by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium, France, Vietnam

Rising Director Award – Metropolis and Area of LocarnoCHF 20,000 to the director to:Cecilia Kang for “Hijo Main,” Argentina, France

Particular Jury Prize Ciné+A promotional marketing campaign to the worth of CHF 25,000 ($31,000) on Ciné+ channels on the time of its theatrical launch in France, to:“Sweetheart” by Margherita Spampinato, Italy

Greatest PerformanceTo Aurora Quattrocchi for “Sweetheart” and Levan Gelbakhiani for “Don’t Let the Solar” by Jacqueline Zünd, Switzerland, Italy

Pardi di Domani

Auteur Quick Movie CompetitionPardino d’Oro WePresent by WeTransfer for the Greatest Auteur Quick FilmCHF 15,000 ($18,600) to the director, to:“A Very Straight Neck” by Neo Sora, Japan/China

Concorso InternazionalePardino d’Oro Arts3 Basis for the Greatest Worldwide Quick FilmCHF 10,000 ($12,400) to the director, to:“Hyena” by Altay Ulan Yang, USA

Pardino d’Argento Arts3 Basis for the Worldwide CompetitionCHF 5,000 ($6,200) to the director, to:“Nonetheless Enjoying” by Mohamed Mesbah, France

Pardi di Domani Greatest Path Award – Bonalumi EngineeringCHF 2,000 ($2,480) to the director, to:“Major Training” by Aria Sánchez and Marina Meira,Cuba/Spain/Brazil

Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award

Sponsored by Medien Patent Verwaltung, in subtitling in three central European languages, to: “Pressure Occasions Displacement” by Angel WU, Taiwan

Concorso NazionalePardino d’Oro SRG SSR, Greatest Swiss Quick FilmCHF 10,000 ($12,400) to the director, to:“Rio Stays Stunning” by Felipe Casanova, Belgium, Brazil, Switzerland

Pardino d’Argento SRG SSR, Nationwide CompetitionCHF 5,000 ($6,200) to the director, to:“Tuser Toner” by Francesco Poloni, Switzerland

Greatest Swiss Newcomer AwardEquipment and companies provided by Downtown Studio (CHF 10,000: $12,400) and Taurus Studio (CHF 2,000: $2,480), to:“L’avant poste 21” by Camille Surdez, Switzerland

Locarno Movie Competition Quick Movie Candidate – European Movie Awards: “Rio Stays Stunning” 

First Function

Swatch First Function AwardCHF 15,000 ($18,600) to the director, to:“Blue Heron” by Sophy Romvari, Canada, Hungary

Pardo VerdeFounded along with WWF, supported by ARX and Wyss Academy ForNature

Pardo VerdeCHF 20,000 ($24,800) to the director, to:“Mare’s Nest” by Ben Rivers, United Kingdom, France, Canada

Particular Mentions

“Hair, Paper, Water…” 

“A South Going through Window” by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, France, Mongolia

Ecumenical PrizeOffered by the Reformed Church buildings and the Catholic Church of Switzerland, to the worth of CHF 10,000 ($12,400) to the director, to:“Solomamma” by Janicke Askevold, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland

Particular Point out“Le Lac” by Fabrice Aragno, Switzerland

FIPRESCI Prize“Dry Leaf”

Europa Cinemas Label

“With Hasan in Gaza” by Kamal Aljafari, Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar

Junior Jury AwardsFirst Prize (CHF 6,000: $7,440)“Le Lac” 

Second Prize (CHF 4,000: $4,960)“Dracula” by Radu Jude, Romania, Austria, Luxembourg, Brazil

Third Prize (CHF 2,000: $2,480)“Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” by Abdellatif Kechiche, France

The Surroundings Is High quality of Life Prize (CHF 3,000: $3,720)provided by the Ticino Division of Inner Affairs:“Two Seasons, Two Strangers” 

Particular Point out“Mosquitoes” by Valentina Bertani and Nicole Bertani, Italy

Greatest movie in Filmmakers of the Current, to:“A Balcony in Limoges” by Jérôme Reybaud, France

Particular Mentions“Blue Heron”

“Follies” by Eric Ok. Boulianne, Canada

Leopards of Tomorrow

Inernational Competitors“Blind, into the Eye” by Atefeh Kheirabadi and Mehrad Sepahnia, Germany/Iran

Concorso Corti d’Autore

“A South Going through Window” by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, France/Mongolia

Particular Point out, Worldwide Competitors“As soon as in a Physique” by María Cristina Pérez González, Colombia, USA

Open Doorways ScreeningsThe Surroundings is High quality of Life Prize“The Envoy of God” by Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, Niger, Burkina Faso, Rwanda

Critics Week Awards

Grand Prix Semaine de la Critique – Prix SRG SSRCHF 5,000 ($6,200) to the director and the producer, to:“Celtic Utopia” by Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén, Sweden, Eire

Marco Zucchi AwardCHF 2,000 ($2,480) to the formally and most aesthetically modern documentary, to:“Within the Penal Colony” by Gaetano Crivaro, Silvia Perra, Ferruccio Goia, and Alberto Diana, Italy