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  • Director from the Philippines bags top prize at Locarno, dedicates it to father

    Director from the Philippines bags top prize at Locarno, dedicates it to father

    NEW DELHI: Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic ‘From What is Before Mula’ received the top prize at the 67th Locarno Film Festival.

     

    The 338-minute black-and-white film, about life in a rural village two years before the government declared martial law in 1972, won the Golden Leopard for best film. The award comes with a cash prize of $ 99,700 which will be shared equally between Diaz and his producer.

     

    The film, which has the Filipino title ‘Mula sa kung ano ang noon’, also picked up the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (IFFS) Don Quixote Prize.

     

    The film also won the top prize at the World Premiere Film Festival in Manila last month.

     

    Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ won the Special Jury Prize, Portugal’s Pedro Costa won the Best Director Leopard for ‘Cavalo Dinheiro ‘and Brazil’s ‘August Winds’ received a special mention.

     

    The international competition jury was headed by Italy’s Gianfranco Rosi and also included Chinese director Diao Yi’nan, filmmaker Thomas Arslan, as well as actresses Alice Braga and Connie Nielson. Diaz was the president of last year’s international competition jury in Locarno.

     

    The two other Asian winners in this year’s festival were both in the Best First Feature section. ‘Songs from the North’, a documentary by the South Korean filmmaker Yoo Soon-mi won the Leopard for the Best First Feature.  France-based Japanese filmmaker Sawada Masa also received a special mention for ‘I, Kamikaze’.

  • Jason Schwartzman’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ to screen at 67th Locarno Film Festival

    Jason Schwartzman’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ to screen at 67th Locarno Film Festival

    MUMBAI: The 67th Festival del film Locarno, which will be held from 6 to 16 August, will see the return of two directors launched at Locarno with their latest work.

     

    The Concorso Internazionale will host the international premi?re of Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip, an unusual kind of diary of a young writer dealing with a creative crisis and an unsettled love life. In addition to confirming the talent of the filmmaker, who featured in the Concorso Cineasti del presente in 2011 with The Color Wheel, the film is enhanced by an exceptional cast, with a stand-out performances by Jason Schwartzman in the lead role and Jonathan Pryce, who plays a disillusioned elderly writer. Both actors will be attending the festival.

     

    The Concorso Cineasti del Presente, the section dedicated to first and second films, will feature Buzzard, a second feature by Joel Potrykus, who won the Best New Director in 2012 for Ape. The film mines a similar vein to the earlier work, charting the inner torments of a young man working as a temp in a bank, once again played by Joshua Burge.

     

    The Festival’s Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian, said in a statement: “The films of Alex Ross Perry and Joel Potrykus are among the most interesting of the recent crop of production. Two films that in their own way, create a world in which the auteur’s voice attains a universal resonance. I am sure Potrykus’s surreal comedy and Perry’s maturity of expression will fascinate the Locarno audience, continuing the Festival’s long-standing relationship with the USA.”

     

    The complete line-up for the 67th Festival del film Locarno will be announced on 16 July.