Japanese film director Sho Miyake’s Two seasons, two strangers He won the top prize, Golden Lion in Locarno’s 2025 edition.
Based on a comic book by surrealistic artist Yoshiharu Tsugar, the film stars Korean actress Shim Eun Kyung as the screenwriter and reflects on her life through a journey caused by a random encounter with a stranger.
Golden Leopard Best Film comes with a prize of 75,000 CHF ($86,650) equally shared between the film’s director and producer.
The special jury award was awarded to the Austrian and German co-production of Elsa Klemser and Levin Peter. White snail, This comes with a 35,000 CHF ($40,400) award, which is shared equally between the director and producer. The improvised film focuses on the relationship between modelling and mystical loneliness. The film also won awards for Mary Imbro and Mikhail Senkov’s acting.
Another performance award was sent to Manuel Marteri in Chile and Anna Mali Javeselsik in Croatia. God will not help.
Iraqi and French film director Abbas Fardel has been awarded the best direction award The story of the injured land, It is worth 20,000 chf ($25,000) which records the devastation of war in South Lebanon.
Alexandre Coberize joint production in Georgia, Germany Dried leaves I received a special mention.
Current and Other Awards Filmmakers
The current competition filmmaker ju-decides awarded its top prize Hair, paper, waterdirected by Belgian director Nicholas Glaugs and Vietnam’s director Trin Minh Kui, and was awarded the 35,000 chf ($40,400) award.
The best emerging director went to Cecilia Kang in Argentina My son is in Mayr, a joint professional prize of 20,000 ($25,000) with France, a special jury award Ciné+ went to Margherita Spampinato in Italy. lover. The film also won one of the best performance awards in the category for Aurora Quattrocchi, while the other best performance award was sent to Levan Gelbakhiani for Jacqueline Zünd’s. Don’t let the sun go.
Swatch First Feature Award, Worth Chf 15,000, went to Sophy Romvari’s Canada-Hungary co-produced Blue Heron.
He was also awarded the Best European Film Award for the European Cinemas Label and the Kamal Al Jafari award. Hasan to Gaza. The film receives support from the Europa Cinemas Network. This provides additional promotions and incentives for exhibitors to extend the film’s execution onto the screen. The documentary depicts live portraits of everyday life in Gaza in 2001.
“A successful edition that exceeds our wildest expectations, celebrating the enduring and gentle power of films and the diverse ways of sharing the wonderful gift of peace together with communities.” “We are grateful to all directors who trusted the festival with their work. In the future, our gaze is set well and we were able to create a future-proof version. We are sure that these films will become beacons of young talents who endure the test of time and are beginning to dream of films that make tomorrow.”
Locarno will return August 5-15 in 2026.
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