Opening film | Bullet Train by David Leitch |
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Closing film | Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth by André Schäfer |
Location | Locarno, Switzerland |
Founded | 1946 |
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Hosted by | Associazione Festival del film Locarno |
Artistic director | Giona A. Nazzaro |
No. of films | 226 |
Festival date | Opening: 3 August 2022 Closing: 13 August 2022 |
Website | 75 Locarno Film Festival |
The 75th annual Locarno Festival opened on 3 August 2022 in Locarno, Switzerland with film Bullet Train by David Leitch. [1] The 75th edition of Locarno Film Festival celebrated as diamond jubilee edition screened 226 films including 105 world premieres and 3 international premieres. It hosted retrospective screenings of Douglas Sirk's films in its Retrospettiva section. [2] [3]
The festival closed on 13 August with the Swiss-German documentary film Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth (Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit.) by André Schäfer. Rule 34 by Julia Murat was awarded the Golden Leopard and The Adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin Special Jury Prize. [4]
On the last day of the festival the Variety Piazza Grande Award went to French film Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir, and the Prix du Public UBS, to Swiss-Belgian film Last Dance by Delphine Lehericey. 128,500 audience watched the screenings during the eleven days of the festival, along with the film professionals. [5]
This event was held from July 29 to August 14. It is Locarno Film Festival's communal space, featuring a wide range of entertainment and discoveries, open and accessible to all. It constituted following platforms:
In collaboration with Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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No Dogs or Italians Allowed | Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens | Alain Ughetto | France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Angry Annie | Annie Colère | Blandine Lenoir | France |
Bullet Train (opening film) | David Leitch | United States | |
Delta | Michele Vannucci | Italy | |
Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth (closing film) | Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit | André Schäfer | Switzerland, Germany |
Home of the Brave | Laurie Anderson | United States | |
Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | ||
Last Dance | Delphine Lehericey | Switzerland, Belgium | |
Medusa Deluxe | Thomas Hardiman | United Kingdom | |
My Neighbor Adolf | Leonid Prudovsky | Israel, Poland, Colombia | |
Paradise Highway | Anna Gutto | United States, Germany, Switzerland | |
Piano Piano | Nicola Prosatore | Italy | |
Printed Rainbow | Gitanjali Rao | India | |
Semret | Caterina Mona | Switzerland | |
The Sleeping Car Murders | Compartiment tueurs | Costa-Gavras | France |
A Woman | Une femme de notre temps | Jean Paul Civeyrac | |
You Will Not Have My Hate | Vous n'aurez pas ma haine | Kilian Riedhof | Germany, France, Belgium |
Where the Crawdads Sing | Olivia Newman | United States | |
English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Adventures of Gigi the Law | Gigi la legge | Alessandro Comodin | Italy, France, Belgium |
At Night the Cats Are Brown | De noche los gatos son pardos | Valentin Merz | Switzerland |
Declaration | Ariyippu | Mahesh Narayanan | India |
Fairytale | Skazka | Alexander Sokurov | Belgium, Russia |
Human Flowers of Flesh | Helena Wittmann | Germany, France | |
I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica |
Il Pataffio | Francesco Lagi | Italy | |
Matter Out of Place | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | |
Piaffe | Ann Oren | Germany | |
Rule 34 | Regra 34 | Julia Murat | Brazil |
Sermon to the Fish | Balıqlara xütbə | Hilal Baydarov | Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey |
Saturn Bowling | Bowling Saturne | Patricia Mazuy | France, Belgium |
Serviam – I Will Serve | Serviam – Ich will dienen | Ruth Mader | Austria |
Stella in Love | Stella est amoureuse | Sylvie Verheyde | France |
Stone Turtle | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia, Indonesia | |
Tales of the Purple House | Hikayat elbeit elorjowani | Abbas Fahdel | Lebanon, Iraq, France |
Tommy Guns | Nação Valente | Carlos Conceição | Portugal, France, Angola |
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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A Perfect Day for Caribou | Jeff Rutherford | United States | |
Arnold Is a Model Student | Arnon pen nakrian tuayang | Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Philippines |
Astrakan | David Depesseville | France | |
Before I Change My Mind | Trevor Anderson | Canada | |
Fragments From Heaven | Adnane Baraka | Morocco, France | |
How Is Katia? | Yak Tam Katia? | Christina Tynkevych | Ukraine |
It Is Night in America | É Noite na América | Ana Vaz | Italy, France, Brazil |
Little Ones | Petites | Julie Lerat-Gersant | France |
Love Dog | Bianca Lucas | Poland, Mexico, United States | |
Matadero | Santiago Fillol | Argentina, Spain, France | |
Nightsiren | Svetlonoc | Tereza Nvotová | Slovakia, Czech Republic |
Our Lady of the Chinese Shop | Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês | Ery Claver | Angola |
Petrol | Alena Lodkina | Australia | |
Safe Place | Sigurno mjesto | Juraj Lerotić | Croatia |
Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? | Den siste våren | Franciska Eliassen | Norway |
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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AirHostess-737 | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece | |
At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago | Andrew Stephen Lee | United States | |
Neighbour Abdi | Buurman Abdi | Douwe Dijkstra | Netherlands |
Castells | Blanca Camell Galí | France, Spain | |
Dancing Colors | M. Reza Fahriyansyah | Indonesia | |
Daron, Daron Colbert | Kevin Steen | United States | |
Pillow Face | Faccia di cuscino | Saverio Cappiello | Italy |
Hardly Working | Total Refusal | Austria | |
Diamond Kid | L'Enfant au diamant | Pierre Edouard Dumora | France |
Shadow of the Butterflies | L'Ombre des papillons | Sofia El Khyari | France, Portugal, Qatar, Morocco |
Lake of Fire | NEOZOON | Germany | |
Balls | Lopte | Gorana Jovanović | Serbia, Slovenia |
Moon That Cracks Over the Darkness of My Loneliness | Luna que se quiebra sobre la tiniebla de mi soledad | Lucila Mariani | Argentina |
Mother Prays All Day Long | Madar tamame rooz doa mikhanad | Hoda Taheri | Germany |
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket | Mini-mini-pokke no okina niwa de | YUKI Yoko | Japan |
Misaligned | Marta Magnuska | Poland, Latvia | |
Money and Happiness | Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr | Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia | |
Mulika | Maisha Maene | Democratic Republic of Congo | |
Sovereign | Soberane | Wara | Cuba |
Tiger Stabs Tiger | SHEN Jie | China | |
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Brandon Roi | Romain Jaccoud | Switzerland | |
The Newt Congress | Der Molchkongress | Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser | |
Euridice, Euridice | Lora Mure-Ravaud | ||
Fairplay | Zoel Aeschbacher | ||
Heart Fruit | Kim Allamand | ||
Heartbeat | Michèle Flury | ||
I'm the Only One I Wanna See | Lucia Martinez Garcia | ||
Gods of the Supermarket | Les Dieux du supermarché | Alberto Gonzalez Morales | |
Limits | Limites | Simon de Diesbach | |
Serafina | Noa Epars, Anna Simonetti | ||
Highlighted title indicates award winner
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Asterión | Francesco Montagner | Czech Republic, Slovakia | |
At Dusk | Au crépuscule | Miryam Charles | Canada |
Big Bang | Carlos Segundo | France, Brazil | |
Song for the Buried City | Chant pour la ville enfouie | Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval | France |
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It | Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 | Kamal Aljafari | Palestine, Germany | |
Poitiers | Jérôme Reybaud | France | |
Nothing Will Be the Same Again | Rien ne sera plus comme avant | Elina Löwensohn | France |
Last Screening | Songy Seans | Darezhan Omirbaev | Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan |
That's How the Summer Ended | Tako se je končalo poletje | Matjaž Ivanišin | Slovenia, Hungary, Italy |
Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Let's make something('Mano destra, Mano sinistra', 'Limes', 'Ci andavo in bicicletta', 'Lorem Ipsum', 'Buio', 'Virilio|Brecht', 'Nido di Pietra', 'La visita', 'Happy Homes', 'Sonnenstube', 'The Fortunates', 'Please make it work') | Younes Ben Slimane, Caterina Biasiucci, Matilde Casari, Ben Donateo, María Silvia Esteve, Antonio Valerio Frascella, Reto Gelshorn, Maria Giménez Cavallo, Agnese Làposi, Davide Palella, Moona Pennanen, Daniel Soares | Switzerland |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Candy Land | John Swab | United States | |
ERICA JONG - breaking the wall | Kaspar Kasics | Switzerland | |
Continental Drift (South) | La dérive des continents (au sud) | Lionel Baier | Switzerland, France |
Lola | Andrew Legge | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
Obscure night - Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate) | Nuit obscure - Feuillets sauvages (Les brûlants, les obstinés) | Sylvain George | France, Switzerland |
Love Lights | Objectos de Luz | Acácio de Almeida, Marie Carré | Portugal |
Where Is This Street? or With No Before And After | Onde Fica Esta Rua? ou Sem Antes Nem Depois | João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata | Portugal, France |
Prisma | Ludovico Bessegato | Italy | |
Prologos | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, Greece | |
W | Anna Eriksson | Finland | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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90 Minutes | 90 minutos | Aeden O'Connor Agurcia | Honduras |
Ayiti mon amour | Guetty Felin | Haiti, United States | |
Option Zero | La opción cero | Marcel Beltrán | Brazil, Cuba, Colombia |
Medea | Alexandra Latishev Salazar | Costa Rica, Chile | |
Right Near the Beach | Gibrey Allen | United States, Jamaica | |
Roza | Andres Rodríguez | Guatemala, Mexico | |
The Fishes Within | Todos los peces | Brenda Vanegas | El Salvador |
A Film About Couples | Una película sobre parejas | Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada | Dominican Republic |
Original Title | Director | Production Country |
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Agwe | Samuel Frantz Suffren | Haiti |
Black Doll | Akley Olton | Saint Vincent, Grenadines |
Hojas de K. | Gloria Carrión | Nicaragua, Costa Rica |
Liremu Barana | Elvis Caj Cojoc | Guatemala, Norway |
Negra soy' | Laura Bermúdez | Honduras |
Out of many | Rebecca Williams | Jamaica |
Scars of Our Mothers' Dreams | Meschida Philip | Grenada |
Techos Rotos | Yanillys Pérez | Dominican Republic |
Tundra | José Luis Aparicio Ferrera | Cuba |
Umbra | Daniela Muñoz Barroso | Cuba |
English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Broken Blossoms | D. W. Griffith | United States | |
City of Ghosts | Matt Dillon | ||
Day of Despair | O Dia do Desespero | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
Die letzten Heimposamenter | Yves Yersin, Eduard Winiger | Switzerland | |
Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | United States | |
Get Out | Jordan Peele | ||
Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | United States, France | |
Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Night Moves | Kelly Reichardt | ||
Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | ||
Our Private Lives | Nos vies privées | Denis Côté | Canada |
The Panther Women | Las mujeres panteras | René Cardona | Mexico |
Pond Life | Bill Buckhurst | United Kingdom | |
Shock Troops | Un homme de trop | Costa-Gavras | France, Italy |
Split | M. Night Shyamalan | United States | |
Tempo d'amarsi | Elio Ruffo | Italy | |
The Written Face | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland, Japan | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Angst essen Seele auf | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany |
Douglas Sirk - Hope as in Despair | Roman Hüben | Switzerland, Germany, France | |
Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes | United States | |
Mirage of Life: Portrait of Douglas Sirk | Mirage de la vie | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland |
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk | Mark Rappaport | United States, France | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Bombay Rose | Gitanjali Rao | India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar | |
I Don't Wanna Dance | Flynn Von Kleist | Netherlands | |
La freccia azzurra | Enzo D'Alò | Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg | |
The Red Balloon | Le Ballon rouge | Albert Lamorisse | France |
How I Learned to Fly | Leto kada sam naučila da letim | Radivoje Andrić | Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia |
Omar & Pincette | Julien Sulser | Switzerland | |
Princesse Dragon | Jean-Jacques Denis, Anthony Roux | France | |
Sihja, The Rebel Fairy | Sihja - kapinaa ilmassa | Marja Pyykkö | Finland, Netherlands, Norway |
Yuku et la fleur d'Himalaya | Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin | Belgium, France, Switzerland | |
English Title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Ruthless Times - Songs of Care | Armotonta menoa - Hoivatyön lauluja | Susanna Helke | Finland |
Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain | Susanna della Sala | Italy | |
The River is not a Border | Maayo Wonaa Keerol (Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière) | Alassane Diago | France, Senegal, Germany |
The Visitors | Veronika Lišková | Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia | |
Fledglings | Pisklaki | Lidia Duda | Poland |
The DNA of Dignity | Jan Baumgartner | Switzerland | |
The Hamlet Syndrome | Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski | Poland, Germany | |
English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
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Action | Benoît Monney | Switzerland | |
ALA KACHUU - Take and Run | Maria Brendle | ||
Dans la nature | Marcel Barelli | ||
A Piece of Sky | Drii Winter | Michael Koch | Switzerland, Germany |
Hugo in Argentina | Stefano Knuchel | Switzerland | |
Love Will Come Later | Julia Furer | ||
Loving Highsmith | Eva Vitija | ||
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