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Best Direction Award | |
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![]() 2025 recipient: Abbas Fahdel | |
Awarded for | Best directed film |
Country | Switzerland |
Presented by | Locarno International Film Festival |
First award | 1946 |
Currently held by | Abbas Fahdel for Tales of the Wounded Land (2024) |
The Best Direction Award is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It is awarded to the best directed film in the international competition section.
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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1946 | And Then There Were None | René Clair | United States | |
1947 | Man About Town | Le Silence est d'or | France | |
1948 | Fort Apache (1st prize) | John Ford | United States | |
Germany, Year Zero (2nd prize) | Germania anno zero | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | |
1949 - 1959: No Award Given |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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1960 | Foma Gordeev [1] | Фома Гордеев | Mark Donskoy | Soviet Union |
1961- 2005: No Award Given |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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2006 | The Last of the Crazy People | Le Dernier des fous | Laurent Achard | France, Belgium |
2007 | Capitaine Achab [2] | Philippe Ramos | France | |
2008 | All That She Wants [3] | Elle veut le chaos | Denis Côté | Canada |
2009 | Tambourine, Drum [4] | Бубен, барабан | Aleksei Mizgiryov | Russia |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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2010 | Curling [5] | Denis Côté | Canada | |
2011 | Best Intentions [6] | Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
2012 | When Night Falls [7] | 我还有话要说 | Ying Liang | China, South Korea |
2013 | Our Sunhi | 우리 선희 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
2014 | Horse Money | Cavalo Dinheiro | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
2015 | Cosmos [8] | Andrzej Żuławski | France, Portugal | |
2016 | The Ornithologist [9] | O Ornitólogo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal, France, Brazil |
2017 | 9 Fingers [10] [11] | 9 Doigts | F. J. Ossang | France, Portugal |
2018 | Too Late to Die Young [12] [13] | Tarde para morir joven | Dominga Sotomayor Castillo | Chile |
2019 | Isadora's Children | Les Enfants d'Isadora | Damien Manivel | France/South Korea |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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2021 | Zeros and Ones | Abel Ferrara | United States, Italy | |
2022 | I Have Electric Dreams [14] | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica |
2023 | Stepne | Maryna Vroda | Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia | |
2024 | Drowning Dry | Seses | Laurynas Bareiša | Lithuania, Latvia |
2025 | Tales of the Wounded Land | Abbas Fahdel | Lebanon |