Locarno 2016 - Line Up & Winners

http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/locarno/locarno-reveals-2016-line-up/5106701.article
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Winners:
http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/locarno-film-festival-2016-palmares-godless-i-daniel-blake-audience-award-1201716588/
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http://www.screendaily.com/news/godless-triumphs-in-locarno/5108445.article

Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova’s debut feature Godless has won the top prize, the Golden Leopard, at the 69th Locarno Film Festival.

The drama also took the Best Actress award for Irena Ivanova’s performance as a nurse looking after elderly patients with dementia in a remote Bulgarian town.

In addition, the production by KLAS Film’s Rossitsa Valkanova with Denmark’s Snowglobe and France’s Alcatraz Films and Film Factory, received the Ecumenical Jury’s Prize, which comes with a cash award of $20,500 (CHF20,000).

“This prize was unusual among juries because it was a unanimous decision between all the members of our team,” the International Competition’s jury president, veteran Mexican director Arturo Ripstein observed on this year’s Golden Leopard award.

There was a pronounced European focus to the other prizes handed out by the International Competition’s jury, which also included film-makers Rafi Pitts, Wang Bing and American actress Kate Moran.

The Special Jury Prize was presented to Romania’s Radu Jude for Scarred Hearts, inspired by Max Blecher’s eponymous autobiographical novel, which was co-produced by Berlin-based Komplizen Film, the makers of Toni Erdmann.

Jude’s film also picked up the International Federation of Film Societies’ Don Quixote Prize.