Special Jury Prize | |
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Awarded for | Second Best film |
Country | Switzerland |
Presented by | Locarno International Film Festival |
First awarded | 1949 |
Last awarded | 2023 |
Currently held by | Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World by Radu Jude |
The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It is awarded to the second best film in the international competition section.
Year | Film | Original title | Director | Country of production |
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1949 | Bicycle Thieves | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
1968 | How Long Does a Man Live? | Meddig él az ember? I-II | Judit Elek | Hungary [1] |
2000 | Gostanza da Libbiano | Paolo Benvenuti | Italy | |
2001 | Delbaran | Abolfazl Jalili | Japan, Iran [2] | |
2002 | I'm Taraneh, 15 | من ترانه، ۱۵ سال دارم | Rasul Sadr Ameli | Iran |
2003 | Maria | Călin Peter Netzer | Romania | |
2004 | Tony Takitani | Jun Ichikawa | Japan | |
2005 | A Perfect Couple | Un couple parfait | Nobuhiro Suwa | France, Japan |
2006 | Half Nelson | Ryan Fleck | United States | |
2007 | Memories | Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki, Eugène Green | South Korea, France [3] | |
2008 | 33 Scenes from Life | 33 sceny z zycia | Malgorzata Szumowska | Germany, Poland |
2009 | Tambourine, Drum | Бубен, барабан | Aleksei Mizgiryov | Russia [4] |
2010 | Morgen | Marian Crișan | Romania | |
2011 | Policeman | השוטר | Nadav Lapid | Israel |
2012 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Bob Byington | United States | |
2013 | What Now? Remind Me | E Agora? Lembra-me | Joaquim Pinto | Portugal |
2014 | Listen Up Philip | Alex Ross Perry | United States | |
2015 | Tikkun | Avishai Sivan | Israel [5] | |
2016 | Scarred Hearts | Inimi cicatrizate | Radu Jude | Romania, Germany [6] |
2017 | Good Manners | As Boas Maneiras | Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra | Brazil, France [7] |
2018 | M | Yolande Zauberman | Israel, France [8] | |
2019 | Height of the Wave | 파고 | Park Jung-bum | South Korea |
2021 | A New Old Play | Jiao Ma Tang Hui | Qiu Jiongjiong | Hong Kong, France |
2022 | The Adventures of Gigi the Law | Gigi la legge | Alessandro Comodin | Italy, France, Belgium [9] |
2023 | Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World | Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii | Radu Jude | Romania |
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