The Pardo d’Oro at the 79th Locarno Film Festival has gone to Florin Șerban’s drama You Don’t Belong Here (Nu E Locul Tau Aici). Scroll down for full list of winners.
The film marks the acclaimed Romanian director’s return to feature filmmaking after eight years. A father-and-son drama, the film was awarded the Pardo d’Oro by the Official Concorso Internazionale Jury “for the strength of its writing, the singularity of its vision, and its exceptional command of cinematic language.”
The movie follows a physician who is crushed when police suspect his teenage son of murdering an old Romani man. He then discovers his son has a secret life vandalizing cars with masked vigilantes.
Meanwhile The Riverbank (A Margem do Rio) by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho won the Special Jury Prize, while the Pardo for Best Direction went to Hong Sangsoo for Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (Nun Dul Dega Eomne).
The two Best Performance Awards were given respectively to Kim Minhee for Nowhere to Lay My Eyes and to Monica Bellucci for Ketticè by Giovanni Tortorici. The Pardo d’Oro in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente and the Swatch First Feature Award were both awarded to The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (La Iusión de un Verano Sin Fin) by Alessandra Sanguinetti.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the festival, said: “A vital and contemporary slate of awards, in close dialogue with the transformations in the industry and in our world today. Whether in highlighting the Romania of You Don’t Belong Here, or the Brazil of The Riverbank, or the South Korea of Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, the jury upheld the primacy of form and of language, while remaining, in its choices, completely accessible, as the packed and engaged screenings of all competitions demonstrated throughout the festival.”
The closing night in Piazza Grande, on Saturday August 15, will be rounded off with the ceremony for the Prix du Public UBS before the screening of the closing film Ni Vue, Ni Connue (All About Corinne) by Marc Fitoussi with Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain.
This year’s international competition jury was overseen by Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz.
The 80th Locarno Film Festival has been set to take place from 4 to 14 August 2027.
Full list of Locarno winners (as provided by the festival)
Official Awards LOCARNO79 OFFICIAL SELECTION Concorso InternazionaleConcorso Cineasti del PresentePardi di DomaniLocarno Kids Screenings CROSS-SECTION AWARDS Swatch First Feature Award Pardo for Change Independent Juries Awards Ecumenical Jury PrizeFIPRESCI PrizeEuropa Cinemas LabelJunior Jury AwardsSemaine de la Critique AwardsConcorso Internazionale The official Concorso Internazionale Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of: Jury PresidentFabrice Du Welz, Director (Belgium) Jury MembersMarco Alessi, Producer (Italy)Lolita Chammah, Actress (France, Italy)Paulina García, Actress (Chile)Olivier Père, Executive Director – ARTE France Cinéma and Head of the Cinema Unit – ARTE France (France) awarded the following prizes: Pardo d’Oro – Grand Prize of the Festival and City of LocarnoCHF 75,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:NU E LOCUL TAU AICI (YOU DON’T BELONG HERE) by Florin Șerban, Romania Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and LosoneCHF 30,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:A MARGEM DO RIO (THE RIVERBANK) by Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho, Brazil/Germany Pardo for Best Direction – City and Region of LocarnoCHF 20,000 to the director, to:Hong Sangsoo for NUN DUL DEGA EOMNE (NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES), South Korea Pardo for Best Performanceto Kim Minhee for NUN DUL DEGA EOMNE (NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES) by Hong Sangsoo, South Korea Pardo for Best Performanceto Monica Bellucci for KETTICÈ by Giovanni Tortorici, Italy Special Mentionto Xavier Bergeron for VIOLENCE DU CORPS DE L’AUTRE by Denis Côté, Canada Special Mentionto Teodor Butănescu for NU E LOCUL TAU AICI (YOU DON’T BELONG HERE) by Florin Șerban, RomaniaConcorsoCineasti del Presente The official Concorso Cineasti del Presente Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of:Jury MembersAfef Ben Mahmoud, Actress, director, producer (Tunisia)Radovan Síbrt, Producer and director (Czech Republic)Margherita Spampinato, Director, screenwriter, editor (Italy) awarded the following prizes: Pardo d’Oro – Concorso Cineasti del PresenteCHF 35,000 to be shared equally between the director and the producer, to:LA ILUSIÓN DE UN VERANO SIN FIN by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Argentina/USA Best Emerging Director Award – City and Region of LocarnoCHF 20,000 to the director to:Beatrice Gibson for AT NIGHT, United Kingdom/France Special Jury Prize CINE+OCSA promotional campaign to the value of CHF 25,000 on CINE+OCS channels at the time of its theatrical release in France, to:REVOLUTIONARIES NEVER DIE by Mohanad Yaqubi, Palestine/Belgium/Qatar Pardo for Best Performanceto Idrissu Tontie Jr. for EGO REACH WE ALL (OUR TIME WILL COME) by Amartei Armar, Ghana/France/Saudi Arabia Pardo for Best Performanceto Manal Issa for L’ESTIVE by Naël Khleifi, Lisa Debauche, Belgium/France Special Mentionto LOS DÍAS LIBRES by Lucila Mariani, Argentina/Brazil/Mexico/France Special Mentionto HANABI by Ana Vaz, France/Brazil Pardi di Domani The official Pardi di Domani Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of: Jury MembersMounia Akl, Director (Lebanon)Steven Markovitz, Producer (South Africa)Antonio Piazza, Director (Italy) awarded the following prizes: Concorso Corti d’Autore Pardino d’Oro WePresent by WeTransfer for the Best Auteur Short FilmCHF 15,000 to the director, to:THE BOVINE COMEDY by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, France Special Mentionto ET SI THUY N’EXISTAIT PAS by Carlo Francisco Manatad, Philippines/France/Indonesia Concorso Internazionale Pardino d’Oro Arts3 Foundation for the Best International Short FilmCHF 10,000 to the director, to:MELK by Filip Anthonissen, Belgium Pardino d’Argento Arts3 Foundation for the International Competition CHF 5,000 to the director, to:KHUFU by Mahmoud Assi, Egypt/France/Sweden/Canada Pardino for the Best Direction WeShort for the International CompetitionCHF 5,000 to the director, to:MUTRION by Marco Cavazzin, Italy Locarno Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awardsto MELK by Filip Anthonissen, Belgium
Special Mentionto LAS DAMAS by Camille Zéhenne, France Concorso Nazionale Pardino d’Oro SRG SSR for the Best Swiss Short FilmCHF 10,000 to the director, to:TYPHOON MAMBO by Domenico Singha Pedroli, Switzerland/France/Thailand Pardino d’Argento SRG SSR for the National CompetitionCHF 5,000 to the director, to:ALLES GUTE by Patricia Strübin, Switzerland Best Swiss Newcomer Awardwhich provides equipment and services offered by Downtown Studio (CHF 10,000) and Taurus Studio (CHF 2,000), to:RESPIRER UNE FOIS SUR TROIS by Charlyne Genoud, SwitzerlandLocarno Kids Screenings The official Locarno Kids Screenings Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of: 13 young Jury Members aged between 11 and 15Carolina BubbaMaeva CaterinoLeone CofrancescoTeresa FaréMassimo KellerElia LonghiSerena LydonValentina LydoGiacomo PerroneMikaela RiaboshtanJacopo RigoniViola RigoniAnna Zitarelli awarded the following prizes: Locarno Kids Award la MobiliareCHF 15,000 to the director, to:PARADEISA by Marleen Valien, GermanyFirst Feature The official First Feature Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of: Jury MembersMatthieu Darras, Film lab director (France)Sung Moon, Programmer (Republic of Korea)Klaudia Reynicke, Filmmaker (Switzerland/Peru) awarded the following prizes: Swatch First Feature AwardCHF 15,000 to the director, to:LA ILUSIÓN DE UN VERANO SIN FIN by Alessandra Sanguinetti (Argentina/USA)Pardo for ChangeFounded together with WWF, supported by ARX and Wyss Academy For Nature The official Pardo for Change Jury of the 79th Locarno Film Festival composed of: Jury MembersGianluca Grossi, Reporter and writer (Switzerland)Mo Harawe, Filmmaker and screenwriter (Somalia/Austria)Seta Thakur, Head of Communications and Social Innovation,Wyss Academy for Nature (Switzerland) awarded the following prize: Pardo for ChangeCHF 20,000 to the director, to:EGO REACH WE ALL (OUR TIME WILL COME) by Amartei Armar, Ghana/France/Saudi Arabia Special Mentions (Feature Film)to LOS NUEVOS by Rodrigo Plá, Mexico/Spain Special Mentions (Short Film)to PRIVATE PROPERTY by Deepak Rauniyar, USA/Nepal/France/Australia Independent Juries and AwardsEcumenical Jury Prize Jury MembersViera Pirker, Jury President (Germany)Jean-Luc Gadreau (France)Juha Rajamäki (Finland)Sarah Stutte (Switzerland) The Ecumenical Jury awarded its prize, offered by the Reformed Churches and the Catholic Church of Switzerland, to the value of CHF 10,000 to the director:Hong Sangsoo for NUN DUL DEGA EOMNE (NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES), South Korea FIPRESCI Prize(International Federation of Film Critics) Jury MembersSona Karapoghosyan, Jury President (Armenia)Mihai Fulger (Romania)Virat Nehru (Australia)Georgios Papadimitriou (Greece)Anne-Sophie Scholl (Switzerland) The International Federation of Film Critics awarded the International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) to:LEJOS DE LOS ÁRBOLES (FAR FROM THE TREES) by Meritxell Colell Aparicio, Spain/Peru/Italy Europa Cinemas Label Jury MembersZüleyha Azman (The Netherlands)Erika Borsos (Austria)Joyce Palmers (Belgium)Tomasz Poborca (Poland) The Jury has awarded the Europa Cinemas Label, intended to enhance the circulation of a European film chosen amongst those of the Concorso Internazionale and the Concorso Cineasti del Presente on the screens of the Europa Cinemas network, to:NU E LOCUL TAU AICI (YOU DON’T BELONG HERE) by Florin Șerban, Romania Junior Jury Awards The jury members are selected from the participants in the Cinema & Gioventù initiative, organized by Bellinzona’s Castellinaria Festival del cinema giovane on behalf of the Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello sport (DECS) of the Canton Ticino. The first Junior Jury, composed of Vittorio Di Angelo, Francesco Maria Ippoliti, Virginia Barbacini, Alessia Nunziante, Vittoria Soldaini, Julian Muller, Edoardo Ravina, awarded the following prizes to the three best directors in the Concorso Internazionale: First Prize (CHF 6,000)NU E LOCUL TAU AICI (YOU DON’T BELONG HERE) by Florin Șerban, Romania Second Prize (CHF 4,000)VIOLENCE DU CORPS DE L’AUTRE (NOBODY’S VIOLENCE) by Denis Côté, Canada Third Prize (CHF 2,000)MANHUNT by Wayne Wapeemukwa, Canada “The Environment is Quality of Life” Prize (CHF 3,000)offered by the Ticino Department of Internal Affairs:I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING by Isabelle Stever, Germany/Ukraine Special Mentionto D’ICI LÀ by Sarah Leonor, France The second Junior Jury, composed of Ginevra Gennari, Valentina Verre, Elia Privet, Linda Jam, Maïa Monnet, Clement De Castelberg, Letizia Marrone, assigned a prize of CHF 2,000 to the best film shown in the section Concorso Cineasti del Presente, to:TEAR GAS by Uta Beria, Georgia/France/Germany Special MentionsLA ILUSIÓN DE UN VERANO SIN FIN (THE ILLUSION OF AN EVERLASTING SUMMER) by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Argentina/USA The third Junior Jury, composed of Ilaria Bosco, Amy Negro, Tania Bignasca, Zoe Thunman, Veselina Tchimova, Beatrice Cereda, awarded the following two prizes, worth CHF 1,500, to the best short films in the Concorso Internazionale and in the Concorso Nazionale of the Pardi di Domani section, one prize to the best short film in the Concorso Corti d’Autore, and the “The environment is quality of life” Prize – worth CHF 2,000 and offered by the Ticino Department of Internal Affairs of the Cantone Ticino – to a short film in the section Open Doors Screenings to: Pardi di Domani Concorso InternazionaleHERSHEWE FAZANAWERD (FORGOTTEN SPACEMAN) by Elham Ehsas, United Kingdom/Afghanistan Concorso NazionaleRESPIRER UNE FOIS SUR TROIS by Charlyne Genoud, Switzerland Concorso Corti d’AutoreÃSHEGHETAM by Filmsaazs, France/Switzerland/Iran Special Mention – Concorso InternazionalePREMIER FEU by Blanca Camell Galí, France/Spain Special Mention – Concorso Corti d’AutoreTHE BOVINE COMEDY by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, France Open Doors Screenings “The Environment is Quality of Life” PrizeCONCRETE MOVES by Fagamou Fama Ndiaye, Senegal Semaine de la Critique Awards Jury MembersOlmo Cerri (Switzerland)Barbara Miller (Switzerland)Bettina Oberli (Switzerland) The Jury has awarded the following prizes: Grand Prix Semaine de la Critique – Prix SRG SSRCHF 5,000 to the director and the producer, to:A TERAZ WIOSNA (BLOSSOMING) by Kamila Serwicka, Poland Marco Zucchi AwardCHF 2,000 to the formally and most aesthetically innovative documentary, to:SEUL LE SERPENT SAIT (ONLY THE SERPENT KNOWS) by Olivier Séror, Martin Verdet, France
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