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LOCARNO 2020

El Festival de Locarno reinventa su programa

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- El certamen ha seleccionado diez películas (la mitad internacionales, la mitad suizas) que formarán parte de su nueva iniciativa The Films After Tomorrow

El Festival de Locarno reinventa su programa
El director Miguel Gomes, cuyo proyecto Selvajaria ha sido seleccionado

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Forced, like most large-scale film events, to revise its format as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which has paralysed the cultural world (alongside many others), the Locarno Film Festival is reinventing its 2020 edition and developing it around a new festival initiative, The Films After Tomorrow, aimed at supporting a series of projects which have found themselves blocked at source.

Conscious of the extreme delicacy of the present moment which has clipped the wings of many movies subsequently forced to halt filming, the Locarno Festival is using its 2020 edition to support twenty directors and to demonstrate what can physically be done in the face of the crisis. The four main prizes - two 2020 Pardi awards (worth 70,000 Swiss francs each) to be bestowed upon one international project and one of Swiss descent, the Campari Award (50,000 Swiss francs) and the Swatch Award (30,000 Swiss francs), both of which are geared towards international projects, not to mention the SRG SSR Award (100,000 Swiss francs), which will reward a Swiss project with a TV advertising campaign worth 100,000 Swiss francs - will be assigned on 15 August by two juries exclusively composed of directors (whose names will be officially unveiled in the coming weeks). The aim of these significant prizes is to help the selected films achieve completion and/or to allow outstanding production work to resume. The two official juries will be complemented by a youth jury, born out of a Cinema & Gioventù initiative, which is set to award various prizes: 5,000 Swiss francs for the Best International Project, 3,000 Swiss francs for the Best Swiss Project, and a further 3,000 Swiss francs for the Environment is Quality of Life award.

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Hailing from 101 different countries, of the 545 projects which took part in the selection, only ten international works and ten Swiss offerings will participate in the new Locarno initiative. A mixture of directors well-accustomed to international festival circuits and fierce, newcomer talent will populate the rich and audacious final selection, all exhibiting the adventurous spirit that’s so precious to the Locarno Festival. There are no less than eight European productions and co-productions among the ten international films selected (half of which are the work of women directors): the two Locarno Festival regulars Lav Diaz, with When The Waves Are Gone [+lee también:
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, and Wang Bing, with I Come From Ikotun; French director Axelle Ropert with Petite Solange [+lee también:
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; Portugal’s Miguel Gomes with Savagery; De Humani Corporis Fabrica [+lee también:
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by the directing duo Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor; Human Flowers of Flesh [+lee también:
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 by the young German filmmaker Helena Wittmann, and Eureka [+lee también:
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by Lisandro Alonso. Jostling alongside them are Chocobar by the explosive Lucrecia Martel and Nowhere Near by Miko Reverenza.

As for the ten Swiss projects in the line-up, there’s a significant number of first or second films by young directors on the agenda: there are newcomers Raphaël Dubach and Mateo Ybarra who’ll be presenting LUX [+lee también:
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, there’s Elie Grappe’s first film Olga [+lee también:
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, the work Zahorí [+lee también:
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by the Argentine director trained at Geneva’s School of Art and Design Marí Alessandrini, and Andreas Fontana’s first feature film Azor. Offering up a second film, meanwhile, is Michael Koch, who already travelled to Locarno in 2016 with Marija [+lee también:
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- which scooped a Special Mention from the ecumenical jury, as well as the Youth Jury award – and who’ll be promoting his new project A Piece of Sky [+lee también:
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. As for the final directors selected in the Swiss category, these are four filmmakers who are thoroughly familiar with the festival circuit: Pierre-François Sauter (who already featured in Locarno 2016’s Swiss Panorama section with Calabria [+lee también:
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) with Far West, Mohammed Soudani with L’Afrique des femmes, Anna Luif with Les histoires d’amour de Liv S. and French director Eric Baudelaire with A Flower in the Mouth [+lee también:
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The presentation of the twenty chosen projects - replete with synopses, images and video presentations of the works in progress delivered by the directors themselves - will be accessible to the public from 5 – 15 August on the festival website. During the same period, a number of the filmmakers selected for the event will hold masterclasses open to the general public, where they will discuss their work and the (uncertain) future of film today.

The selected projects are as follows:

International Projects

ChocobarLucrecia Martel (Argentina/USA/Netherlands)
Production: Rei Cine (Benjamin Domenech), Louverture Films, Lemming Film

Cidade; Campo [+lee también:
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Juliana Rojas (Brazil)
Production: Dezenove Som e Imagens (Sara Silveira)

De Humani Corporis Fabrica [+lee también:
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 – Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor (France/USA)
Production: Norte Productions (Valentina Novati), Sensory Ethnography Lab (Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

Eureka [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lisandro Alonso
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- Lisandro Alonso (France/Germany/Portugal/Mexico/Argentina)
Production: Luxbox (Fiorella Moretti, Hédi Zardi), Komplizen, Rosa Filmes, Mr. Woo, 4L

Human Flowers of Flesh [+lee también:
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entrevista: Helena Wittmann
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Helena Wittmann (Germany/France)
Production: Fünferfilm (Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause, Julia Cöllen), Tita Productions (Christophe Bouffil)

I Come From IkotunWang Bing (France/China)
Production: Idéale Audience (Hélène Le Coeur, Pierre-Olivier Bardet), WIL Productions (Lihong Kong)

When The Waves Are Gone [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lav Diaz
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Lav Diaz (Philippines/France/Portugal/Denmark)
Production: Films Boutique (Jean-Christophe Simon, Gabor Greiner), Epicmedia Productions (Bianca Balbuena, Bradley Liew), Rosa Filmes (Joaquim Sapinho), Snowglobe Film (Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin)

Nowhere NearMiko Revereza (Philippines/Mexico/USA)
Production: Los Otros (Shireen Seno), Cine Droga

Petite Solange [+lee también:
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entrevista: Axelle Ropert
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Axelle Ropert (France)
Production: Aurora Films (Charlotte Vincent)

Savagery –  Miguel Gomes (Portugal/France/Brazil/China/Greece)
Production: O Som e a Fúria (Luís Urbano), Shellac Sud, RT Features, Rediance Films, Faliro House

Swiss Projects

AzorAndreas Fontana (Switzerland/Argentina/France)
Production: Alina Film (Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney), RTS, Ruda cine, Local Films

A Piece of Sky [+lee también:
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entrevista: Michael Koch
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Michael Koch (Switzerland/Germany)
Production: hugofilm features (Christof Neracher), Pandora Film Produktion, SRF SRG SSR, ARTE

Far WestPierre-François Sauter (Switzerland/Portugal/Italy)
Production: Le Laboratoire Central (Nadejda Magnenat), Terratreme (João Matos), Qoomoon (Luciano Barisone, Luca Scarabelli)

A Flower in the Mouth [+lee también:
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Eric Baudelaire (Switzerland/France)
Production: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (Giovanni Carmine), Poulet-Malassis Films (Eric Baudelaire)

L’Afrique des femmesMohammed Soudani (Switzerland/Ivory Coast)
Production: Amka Films Productions (Tiziana Soudani (1955-2020), Michela Pini, Amel Soudani), RSI SRG SSR, Nikady's Production (Djira Youssouf)

Les histoires d’amour de Liv S.Anna Luif (Switzerland)
Production: Beauvoir Films (Aline Schmid)

LUX [+lee también:
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 – Raphaël Dubach, Mateo Ybarra (Switzerland)
Production: Jeunes Sauvages (Raphaël Dubach, Mateo Ybarra)

Olga [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elie Grappe
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 – Elie Grappe (Switzerland/France)
Production: Pointprod (Jean-Marc Fröhle), Cinéma Defacto (Tom Dercourt), RTS SRG SSR, Canal+

Unrest [+lee también:
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entrevista: Cyril Schäublin
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Cyril Schäublin (Switzerland)
Production: Seeland Filmproduktion (Linda Vogel, Michela Pini)

Zahorí [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marí Alessandrini
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Marí Alessandrini (Switzerland/Argentina/Chile/France)
Production: Le Laboratoire Central (Nadejda Magnenat), El Calefón Cine (Juan Carlos Maristany), Cinestación (Dominga Sotomayor), Norte Productions (Valentina Novati)

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