59th Locarno Film Festival

59th Locarno Film Festival
Opening filmMiami Vice directed by Michael Mann
Closing filmLittle Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
LocationLocarno, Switzerland
Founded1946
AwardsGolden Leopard: Das Fräulein directed by Andrea Staka
Artistic directorFrederic Marie
Festival dateOpening: 2 August 2006 (2006-08-02)
Closing: 12 August 2006 (2006-08-12)
WebsiteLFF

The 59th Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 August 2006 in Locarno, Switzerland.[1] The festival featured 172 films in total, with twenty one films in competition from seventeen different countries.[2] The opening film was the European premiere of Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann. The closing film was the European premiere of Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.[3][2] The festival also held a retrospective of the work of Finnish director Aki Kaursimaki.[2]

The Leopard of Honor was awarded to director Alexsander Sokurov for his career in cinema.[2] William Dafoe attended the festival to receive the excellence award.[2][4]

This was the first year with Frederic Marie as the new artistic director.[2] On the last day Marie passed out while introducing the Little Miss Sunshine screening and ended the festival in the hospital, reportedly due to exhaustion.[5] There was also a problem with jury when, on the final day, one juror, Barbara Albert, revealed they were a co-writer of a film in competition, Das Fräulein, which went on to win the Golden Leopard. Albert resigned from the jury and didn't take part in the vote.[5][6]

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Das Fräulein directed by Andrea Staka.[5][7][8]

Official Jury

There was a five-person jury who voted on the films in competition. There was originally seven on the jury, but two people resigned.[5]

Sections

The following films were screened in these sections:[9]

Piazza Grande

English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country
10 Insects To Feed Masbedo 2006 Italia
The Lives of Others Das Leben Der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2006 Germany
Late Bloomers Die Herbstzeitlosen Bettina Oberli 2006 Switzerland
Dead in 3 Days In Drei Tagen Bist Du Tot Andreas Prochaska 2006 Austria
Days of Glory Indigènes Rachid Bouchareb 2006 France, Morocco, Algérie, Belgium
Jeu Georges Schwizgebel 2006 Switzerland, Canada
The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio Agostino Ferrente 2006 Italia
Carla's Liste La Liste De Carla Marcel Schüpbach 2006 Switzerland
The Right of the Weakest La Raison Du Plus Faible Lucas Belvaux 2006 France, Belgium
Lights in the Dusk Laitakaupungin Valot Aki Kaurismäki 2006 Finland, Germany, France
Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 2006 USA
Miami Vice Michael Mann 2006 USA
My Brother Is Getting Married Mon Frère Se Marie Jean-Stéphane Bron 2006 Switzerland, France
Neil Young: Heart of Gold Jonathan Demme 2006 USA
Nomad Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer 2006 Kazakhstan
Quale Amore Maurizio Sciarra 2006 Italia, Switzerland
Rachel (Short) Frédéric Mermoud 2006 France, Switzerland
Russian Ark Russkij Kovcheg Alexander Sokurov 2002 Germany, Russia
Severance Christopher Smith 2006 Great Britain, Hungary
Crossing Borders Un Franco, 14 Pesetas Carlos Jglesias 2006 Spain

International Competition

Highlighted title indicates Golden Leopard winner

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Agua Verónica Chen 2006 Argentina, France
Black Eyed Dog Pierre Gang 2006 Canada
Body Rice Hugo Vieira da Silva 2006 Portugal
Chahar Shanbeh Souri Asghar Farhadi 2006 Iran
Das Fräulein Andrea Štaka 2006 Switzerland, Germany
Der Mann Von Der Botschaft The Man from the Message Dimitri Tsintsadze 2006 Germany
Dies D'Agost August Days Marc Recha 2006 Spain
El Benny Jorge Luis Sánchez 2006 Cuba, Spain, Great Britain
Fu Sheng Zhimin Sheng 2006 China
Gefangene Prisoner Iain Dilthey 2006 Germany, Austria
Half Nelson Ryan Fleck 2005 USA
Hirtia Va Fi Albastra The Paper will be Blue Radu Muntean 2006 Romania
Jimmy Della Collina Jimmy of the Hill Enrico Pau 2006 Italia
Le Dernier Des Fous The Last of the Madmen Laurent Achard 2006 France, Belgium
Mare Nero Black Sea Roberta Torre 2006 Italia, France
Mnogotochie Multitude Andrei A. Eshpai 2006 Russia
Nae-Chungchun-Aegae-Goham Young-Nam Kim 2006 South Korea, Japan
Stephanie Daley Hilary Brougher 2006 USA
Suzanne Viviane Candas 2006 France
The Lives Of The Saints Chris Cottam, Rankin 2006 Great Britain
Ça Rend Heureux It Makes you Happy Joachim Lafosse 2006 Belgium, Italia

Filmmakers of the Present

The Concorso Cineasti del Presente, also known as the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, showcases first and second feature films from emerging filmmakers.[10]

Filmmakers of the Present - In Competition

Highlighted title indicates Filmmakers of the Present winner

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
About Love Darezhan Omirbaev 2006 South Korea
Acidente Accident Cao Guimarães, Pablo Lobato 2006 Brazil
Car Wash Pascal Rambert 2005 France
Chand Kilo Khorma Baraye Marassem-E Tadfin The Kingdom of the Kingdom Birth Khort Birth Birth Birth Birthday Saman Salour 2006 Iran
Drifting Paradise Chun-Hsiung Wang 2006 Thailand
Fragments Sur La Grâce Fragments on Grace Vincent Dieutre 2006 France, Belgium
Germanium No Yoru The Night of the Gelloma Tatsushi Ōmori 2005 Japan
Kilnieks Laila Pakalnina 2006 Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia
Kythera Péter Mészáros 2006 Hungary
L'Année Suivante The Following Year Isabelle Czajka 2006 France
L'Étrangère Foreigner Florence Colombani 2006 France, Portugal
La Silla The Chair Julio D. Wallovits 2005 Spain
La Vraie Vie Est Ailleurs Real Life is Elsewhere Frédéric Choffat 2006 Switzerland
Le Dernier Homme The Last Man Ghassan Salhab 2006 France, Lebanon
Les Mains D'Andréa Andréa's Hands Sébastien Betbeder 2006 France
Love Story Kelvin Tong 2006 Singapour, Hong Kong
No Day Off Eric Khoo 2006 South Korea
Rabia Oscar Cardenas 2006 Chile
Schopenhauer 2006 Italia
So Lange Du Hier Bist As Long as you are Here Stefan Westerwelle 2006 Germany
Sotto La Stessa Luna Under the Same Moon Carlo Luglio 2005 Italia
Street Thief Malik Bader 2006 USA
Tarachime Naomi Kawase 2006 Japan, France
The Giant Buddhas Christian Frei 2005 Switzerland
Twelve Twenty Pen-ek Ratanaruang 2006 South Korea
Verfolgt Hounded Angelina Maccarone 2006 Germany
Who is Haoran Yishu Yang 2006 China
Wild Tigers I Have Known Cam Archer 2005 USA

Filmmakers of the Present - Out of Competition

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Camicie Verdi Green Shirts Claudio Lazzaro 2006 Italia
Celui Qui Aime A Raison The One Who Loves is Right Arnold Pasquier 2005 France
Don Chisciotte E... Don Quixote and ... Bruno Bigoni 2006 Italia
Début Beginning Pascal Rambert 2006 France
Feltrinelli Alessandro Rossetto 2006 Italia, Switzerland, Germany
Habana - Arte Nuevo De Hacer Ruinas Havana - New Art of Making Ruins Florian Borchmeyer, Matthias Hentschler 2006 Germany
Il Faut Aimer Son Prochain, Les Autres Sont Trop Loin You Have to Love your Neighbor, the Others are Too Far Arnold Pasquier 2006 France
Il Était Une Fois... Les Délices Du Petit Monde Once Upon a Time ... the Delights of the Little World Joseph Péaquin 2006 Italia
Jour Après Jour Day after Day Jean-Paul Fargier 2006 France
La Consultation Consultation Hélène De Crécy 2006 France
La Traductrice The Translator Elena Hazanov 2006 Switzerland, Russia
Las Camas Solas The Beds Alone Sandra Gomez 2006 Switzerland
Les Signes Signs Eugène Green 2006 France
No Body Is Perfect Raphael Sibilla 2005 France
Quand Nous Étions Punk When We Were Punk Pascal Rambert 2005 France
Qué Viva Mauricio Demierre What Does Mauricio Demierre Live Stéphane Goël 2006 Switzerland
Rule Of Law - Justiz Im Kosovo Rule of Law - Justice in Kosovo Susanne Brandstätter 2006 Austria
The Bimo Records Rui Yang 2006 China
Toyen Jan Němec 2005 Czech Republic
Tv Junkie Michael Cain, Matt Radecki 2005 USA
Tête D'Or Head of Gold Gilles Blanchard 2006 France

Open Doors

Open Doors - South East Asia

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
0.1875 Tan Royston 2006 Singapour
A Tree in Tanjung Malim Tan Chui Mui 2005 Malaysia
Be with Me Eric Khoo 2005 Singapour
Beautiful Boxer Ekachai Uekrongtham 2003 Thailand
Blissfully Yours Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2002 Thailand, France
Company of Mushrooms Tan Chui Mui 2006 Malaysia
Eliana, Eliana Riri Riza 2001 Indonesia
Letter to an Angel Garin Nugroho 1993 Indonesia
Monday Morning Glory Ming jin Woo 2005 Malaysia
One Night Husband Pimpaka Towira 2003 Thailand
Perth Djinn 2004 Singapour
Princess of Mount Ledang Teong Hin Saw 2004 Malaysia
South of South Tan Chui Mui 2006 Malaysia
Tears of the Black Tiger Wisit Sasanatieng 2000 Thailand
The Beautiful Washing Machine James Lee 2004 Malaysia, South Korea
The Rainmaker Ravi Bharwani 2004 Indonesia
Whispering Sands Nan Triveni Achnas 2001 Indonesia, Japan

Leopards of Tomorrow

Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)

Eastern Mediterranean Competition

Eastern Mediterranean Competition - Leopards of Tomorrow
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
After Shave Hany Tamba 2004 France, Lebanon
Amor Fati Love Fati Dennis Todorovic 2005 Germany, Serbia and Montenegro
Be Quiet Sameh Zoabi 2005 France
Bir Damla Su A Drop of Water Deniz Gamze Ergüven 2006 France
Bubachki Igor Ivanov 2003 Macedonia
Crickets Matan Guggenheim 2004 Israel
De Quelle Couleur Sont Les Murs De Votre Appartement? What Color are the Walls of your Apartment? Timon Koulmasis 2005 France
Defteri Fisi Book Fisi Vardis Marinakis 2005 Greece
Die Rasur - Tras The Shave - Tras Tunçay Kulaoglu, Martina Priessner 2006 Germany
Get The Rabbit Back Kamen Kalev, Dimitar Mitovski 2005 Bulgaria
Hayelet Bodeda Talya Lavie 2005 Israel
Kvish Kavish Nadav Lapid 2004 Israel
Layla Afel Leon Prudovsky 2005 Israel
Ochi Pia Istories Agapi No more Stories of Love Stratoula Theodoratou 2003 Greece
Offside Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor 2006 Israel
Ohcet Petar Pasic 2005 Slovenia
Poyraz Belma Bas 2006 Türkiye
Quelques Miettes Pour Les Oiseaux Some Crumbs for Birds Nassim Amaouche 2005 France, Giordania
Ram Za Sliku Moje Domovine Ram for a Picture of My Homeland Elmir Jukić 2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia
Sharar The Waste Hazim Bitar, Saleh Kasem, Ammar Quttaineh 2006 Giordania
Tir Radoy Nikolov 2005 Bulgaria
Toz Dust Fatih Kizilgok 2005 Türkiye
Ulicni Hodac Hodac Street Kosta Djordjevic 2004 Serbia and Montenegro
Vaskeriet The Laundry Hisham al-Zouki 2006 Norway, Syria
West Bank Story Ari Sandel 2005 USA
Yasmine Tughani Najwa Najjar 2006 Palestine
Ça Sera Beau - From Beyrouth With Love It will be Beautiful - From Beirut with Love Wael Nourredine 2005 France, Lebanon
Çarpisma Umut Aral 2005 Türkiye
Retrospective of the Eastern Mediterranean
(A)Torzija (a) Torsion Stefan Arsenijević 2002 Slovenia
Aadan Adan Ruba Nadda 2004 Canada
Ax Kazim Öz 1999 Türkiye
Babami Hirsizlar Caldi Babami Hireless Caldied Esen Isik 1999 Switzerland
Balkanska Ruleta Balkan Roulette Zdravko Barisic 1998 Slovenia
Berlinbeirut Myrna Maakaron Behnke 2004 Germany
Bezi Zeko Bezi Bey Pavle Vuckovic 2003 Serbia and Montenegro
Cyber Palestine Elia Suleiman 2000 USA, Palestine
Dayim Tayfun Pirselimoglu 1999 Türkiye
Dremano Oko Dreman's Eye Vladimir Perišić 2003 France
Ela Na Sou Po She at I'm Po Katerina Filiotou 2000 Greece
Getürkt Tortured Fatih Akin 1997 Germany
Haravyi Haravy Yannis Katsamboulas 2003 Greece
Hop, Skip & Jump Srđan Vuletić 2000 Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
How Beautiful Is The Sea Sabine El Chamaa 2003 Lebanon
Krav Tarnegolim Claim Tarnegolim Sigalit Liphshiz 2000 Israel
La Danse Éternelle Eternal Dance Hiam Abbass 2003 France
Like Twenty Impossibles Annemarie Jacir 2003 Palestine
Lulu Keren Yedaya 2001 France
Mabrouk Again! Hany Tamba 1999 France, Lebanon
Milhama A'Heret Nadav Gal 2003 Israel
Naprijed, Nazad Forward, Back Jasmila Žbanić 2002 Bosnia and Herzegovina
O Gogos Gogos Panayotis Fafoutis 2001 Greece
Ochley Lechem Hesed Ochley Lech Hessed Hiam Tabakman 2002 Israel
Oneg Shabath One Shabath Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun 2003 Israel
Poetot Odmara The Poet Odma Mitko Panov 1998 Switzerland, Macedonia
Prvo Smrtno Iskutvo The First Deaths Aida Begić 2001 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italia
Racconto Di Guerra War Story Mario Amura 2003 Italia
Raddem Danielle Arbid 1998 France, Lebanon
Srce Je Kos Mesa The Heart is the Hair of the Meat Jan Cvitkovič 2003 Slovenia
Strangers Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor 2004 Israel, USA
Taxi Service Elie Khalifé, Alexandre Monnier 1996 Switzerland, Lebanon
To Foustani The Dress Monica Vaxevani 2001 Greece
Yawmiyat Ahir T Tawfik Abu Wael 2001 Palestine
Zadnja Zelja The Last Cabbage Petar Pasic 2003 Slovenia

Swiss Competition

Swiss Competition – Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Amancay Milagros Mumenthaler 2006 Switzerland, Argentina
Aschenbrüder Markus Heiniger, Steve Walker 2006 Switzerland
Beckenrand Pelvic Edge Michael Koch 2006 Switzerland, Germany
Coupé Court Short -Cut Hugo Veludo 2006 Switzerland
Eclipse Léo Maillard 2006 Switzerland
Federer Et Moi Federer and Me Robin Harsch 2006 Switzerland
Jolido Francesco Jost 2006 Switzerland
Jules-Aimé Péclard, Distillateur D'Esprit De Clocher Jules-Aimé Péclard, Bell Tower Spirit Distiller Grégoire Mayor 2006 Switzerland
La Vérité Vraie The True Truth Tania Zambrano Ovalle 2006 Switzerland
Les Pieds De La Baleine Whale's Feet Cédric Juniet 2005 Switzerland
Männer Am Meer Men by the Sea Reto Caffi 2005 Germany, Switzerland
Nachtflattern Night -Flutter Carmen Stadler 2006 Switzerland
Nouvel Ordre New Order Grégory Bindschedler, Ausonio De Sousa, Jean-Daniel Schneider 2006 Switzerland
The Yellow Wallpaper Andrea Oki 2006 Switzerland
Verset, Refrain, Verset Engineers, Refrain, Engage Bogdan Nunweiller 2005 Switzerland
Virgin Red Edouard Getaz 2005 USA, Switzerland
Waning Moon Luca Colombo 2006 USA, Switzerland

Tribute To

Tribute To Juan Pablo Rebella
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Whisky Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll 2004 Uruguay, Argentina, Germany
Tribute To Pio Bordoni
Come Fate A Vedere Le Rondini... How Do you See the Swallows ... Zijad Ibrahimovic 2006 Switzerland

Retrospective – Aki Kaurismäki

Retrospective Aki Kaurismäki
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
A Matter Of Life And Death Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1946 Great Britain
Akahige Red Beard Akira Kurosawa 1965 Japan
Angst Essen Seele Auf Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974 Germany
Angèle Marcel Pagnol 1934 France
Ariel Aki Kaurismäki 1988 Finland
Au hasard Balthazar Balthazar Robert Bresson 1966 France
Bab El-Hadid Cairo Station Youssef Chahine 1958 Egypt
Bico (Segment Visions Of Europe) Aki Kaurismäki 2004 Finland
Bitter Victory Nicholas Ray 1957 France, USA
Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl D. W. Griffith 1919 USA
Bronenosets Potyomkin Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein 1925 Russia
Calamari Union Aki Kaurismäki 1985 Finland
Casque D'Or Gold Helmet Jacques Becker 1952 France
Cinéma, De Notre Temps: Aki Kaurismäki Cinema, of Our Time: Aki Kaurismäki Guy Girard 2001 France, Finland
Dogs Have No Hell (Épisode Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet) Aki Kaurismäki 2001 Germany
Hamlet Liikemaailmassa Hamlet in the Business World Aki Kaurismäki 1987 Finland
I Hired a Contract Killer Aki Kaurismäki 1990 Finland, Sweden
Iron Horsemen Gilles Charmant 1994 Finland, France, Italia
Juha Aki Kaurismäki 1999 Finland, Germany, France
Kaurismäki &Amp; Kaurismäki Kaurismäki & Amp; Kaurismäki Alexander Bohr 1994 Germany
La Vie De Bohème Bohemian's Life Aki Kaurismäki 1992 Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
Las Hurdes The Hurdes Luis Buñuel 1933 Spain
Last Holiday Henry Cass 1950 Great Britain
Le Tango Venu Du Froid Tango from Cold Gilles Charmant, Benoît Finck 2000 France
Leningrad Cowboys Go America Aki Kaurismäki 1989 Finland, Sweden
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses Aki Kaurismäki 1994 Finland, Germany, France
Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä A Man without the Past Aki Kaurismäki 2002 Finland, Germany, France
Night on Earth Jim Jarmusch 1991 France, England, Germany, USA, Japan
Pidä Huivista Kiinni, Tatjana Hold the Scarf, Tatyana Aki Kaurismäki 1994 Finland, Germany
Rich Little Bitch Aki Kaurismäki 1987 Finland
Rikos Ja Rangaistus Crime and Punishment Aki Kaurismäki 1983 Finland
Rocky VI Aki Kaurismäki 1986 Finland
Rosetta Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne 1999 Belgium, France
Stranger Than Paradise Jim Jarmusch 1982 USA, Germany
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau 1927 USA
The Cameraman Edward Sedgwick 1928 USA
The Fatal Glass of Beer Clyde Bruckman 1933 USA
The Set-Up Robert Wise 1949 USA
These Boots Aki Kaurismäki 1992 Finland
Those Were the Days Aki Kaurismäki 1991 Finland
Thru the Wire Aki Kaurismäki 1987 Finland
Tokyo Monogatari Tokyo Story Yasujirō Ozu 1953 Japan
Total Balalaika Show - Helsinki Concert Total Balalaika Show Aki Kaurismäki 1994 Finland
Tulitikkutehtaan Tyttö The Girl of the Matchmaker Aki Kaurismäki 1990 Finland, Sweden
Umberto D. Vittorio De Sica 1952 Italia
Valehtelija The Liar Mika Kaurismäki 1981 Finland
Varjoja Paratiisissä Shadows in Paradise Aki Kaurismäki 1986 Finland
Written on the Wind Douglas Sirk 1956 USA
Zéro De Conduite Driving Zero Jamie Vico 1933 France
Ça Rend Heureux It Makes you Happy Aki Kaurismäki 1996 Finland, Germany, France

20 Years of Catalan Films

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Bitter Kas Edu Grau 2004 Spain
El Cerco The Fence Nacho Martín 2005 Spain
El Taxista Ful The Taxiist Ful Jo Sol 2005 Spain
La Casa De Mi Abuela My Grandmother's House Adan Aliaga 2005 Spain
La Leyenda Del Tiempo The Legend of Time Isaki Lacuesta 2006 Spain
Remake Roger Gual 2005 Spain, Argentina

About Cinema

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Cinéma, De Notre Temps: Le Home Cinéma Des Frères Dardenne Cinema, Our Time: The Home Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers Jean-Pierre Limosin 2006 France
Conversazione A Porto. Manoel De Oliveira E Agustina Bessa-Luis. Dicembre 2005 Conversazione to Porto. Manoel De Oliveira and Agustina Bessa-Luis. DICEMBRE 2005 Daniele Segre 2006 Italia
Figner, The End Of A Silent Century Nathalie Alonso Casale 2006 Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Russia
I'Ll Be Your Eyes, You'Ll Be Mine Stephen Dwoskin, Keja Ho Kramer 2006 France
Il Peggio Di Noi The Worst of Us Corso Salani 2006 Italia
Il Tempo Si È Fermato. Il Cinediario Time Stopped. the Cinendiario Réalisation collective 1958 Italia
Il Tempo Si È Fermato Time Stopped Ermanno Olmi 1959 Italia
Komadori Eiga Komaneko Robin Movie Komacat Tsuneo Gōda 2006 Japan
L'Homme Des Flandres The Man of Flanders Sébastien Ors 2006 France
La Petite Dame Du Capitole The Little Lady of the Capitol Jacqueline Veuve 2005 Switzerland
Person Marina Person 2006 Brazil
Riviera Cocktail Heinz Bütler 2006 Switzerland, Netherlands, Finland
This Film Is Not Yet Rated Kirby Dick 2006 USA
Vocation Cinéaste Filmmaker Laurent Perrin 2006 France

Digital Asia

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
A Conversation With God Tsai Ming-liang 2001 South Korea
A Letter From Hiroshima Nobuhiro Suwa 2002 South Korea
Daf Bahman Ghobadi 2003 South Korea
Dance With Me To The End Of Love Lik Wai Yu 2004 South Korea
Digital Search PARK Ki-yong 2003 South Korea
Digitopia John Akomfrah 2001 South Korea
Haze Shinya Tsukamoto 2005 South Korea
In Public Jia Zhangke 2001 South Korea
Influenza Bong Joon Ho 2004 South Korea
Like A Desperado Under The Eaves Shinji Aoyama 2003 South Korea
Magician(S) Il-gon SONG 2005 South Korea
Mirrored Mind Sogo Ishii 2004 South Korea
Miss Jin Xing Story Yuan Zhang 2000 South Korea
Survival Game Seong-wook Moon 2002 South Korea
The Name Of The Night Yun-tae Kim 2000 South Korea
The New Year Xiaoshuai WANG 2001 South Korea
Worldly Desires Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2005 South Korea
Www.Whitelover.Com Kwang-su PARK 2000 South Korea

Juries' Films

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Downtown 81 Edo Bertoglio 1981 USA
Fantasma Ghost Lisandro Alonso 2006 Argentina, Netherlands, France
July Rhapsody Ann Hui 2001 Hong Kong
La Libertad Freedom Lisandro Alonso 2001 Argentina
Los Muertos Lisandro Alonso 2004 Argentina, France, Netherlands, Switzerland
M/Other Nobuhiro Suwa 1999 Japan
Mechilot Udi Aloni 2006 Israel
Nordrand Northern Skirts Barbara Albert 1999 Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Odete Two Drifters João Pedro Rodrigues 2005 Portugal
Odgrobadogroba Gravehopping Jan Cvitkovič 2005 Croatia, Slovenia
Pianese Nunzio, 14 Anni A Maggio Pianese Nunzio, 14 Years in May Antonio Capuano 1996 Italia
Rollow Emmanuelle Laure Antille 2005 Switzerland
Sur Mes Levres On My Lips Jacques Audiard 2001 France
Zemestan Earthest Rafi Pitts 2006 Iran

Midnight Movies

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Mcdull,The Alumni Samson Chiu 2006 Hong Kong, China
Sa Saeng Gyul Dan Choi Ho 2006 South Korea
Shadow of the Vampire E. Elias Merhige 2000 Great Britain, USA, Luxembourg

Leopard of Honor

Original Title English Title Director(s) Production Country
Eleghia Zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya Elegy of Life. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya Alexander Sokurov Russia

Play Forward

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
A Life Of Errors Nicholas & Sheila Pye 2006 Canada
A Little Musical Day Julien Roby 2006 France
Airport Dreams Luis Ortega 2006 Argentina
Alias Aldo Runfola 2004 Switzerland
Bianca, 16 Anni Bianca, 16 Years Old Oliviero Toscani 2006 Italia
Blissed Knut Asdam 2006 Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Great Britain
Both Members Of This Club Ofri Cnaani 2002 USA
Cantico Das Criaturas Cantum of Creatures Miguel Gomes 2006 Portugal
Chinese Crackers Jonathan Monk 2006 China, Great Britain
Desalento Discouragement Mauro Santini 2006 Italia
Destricted Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé 2006 USA, Great Britain
Devour Carolee Schneemann 2005 USA
Donnerstag Thursday Frédéric Moser, Philippe Schwinger 2006 Germany
Dove Il Marmo È Zucchero Where Marble is Sugar Elisabetta Sgarbi 2006 Italia
Fly From The Dead Paul Durango 2006 France
For Your Eyes Jeanne Susplugas 2005 France
Fu Ge F UG E CUI Zi'en 2005 China
Gretchen Steve Collins 2006 USA
Il Mondo Non È Un Panorama The World is not a Panorama Masbedo 2006 Italia
Kelly L.A. Raeven 2006 USA, Netherlands
L'Homme De Paille The Man of Straw Nicolas Giraud 2006 France
L'Immature Adrian Smith 2006 France
La Camera The Camera Ra Di Martino 2006 Italia, USA
Le Soleil Et La Mort Voyagent Ensemble The Sun and Death Travel Together Frank Beauvais 2006 France
Lock Again Yang Fudong 2004 China
Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon Daria Martin 2005 Switzerland, Great Britain
Majimak Babsang Gyeong-Tae Roh 2006 South Korea
Malye Azerki Small Azerki Dmitri Makhomet 2006 France
Mary Sue Mary Sue 2006 France
Mon Ami, Tout Va À La Décharge My Friend, Everything Goes to the Discharge Yvonne Kerouèdan 2006 France
Morning Lemon Daan Spruijt 2006 France
Movements 2000 Germany
Neige, Ma Grimace Snow, My Grimace Antoine Fumat 2006 France
Null Arturo Fuentes 2006 Spain
Octobre October Pierre Léon 2005 France
Olympics Shannon Plumb 2005 USA
Once Upon A Time Corinna Schnitt 2005 Germany, USA
Postcard To A Ballerina Eva Koch 2004 Denmark
Quartet Ofri Cnaani 2005 USA
Secret Strikes Alicia Framis 2006 Spain, Netherlands, France, Great Britain
Silencio Silence Sérgio Borges 2005 Brazil
Site Specific_Las Vegas 05 Olivo Barbieri 2006 USA, Canada, Italia
Site Specific_Roma 04 Olivo Barbieri 2004 Italia
Site Specific_Shanghai 04 Olivo Barbieri 2005 China, Italia
Sleepers Johanna Domke 2006 Germany
Spring Lina Bertucci 2006 USA
Ten In Love Markus Schinwald 2006 Austria, Belgium, France
Teresa Ana Maria Gomes 2006 France
Time Flies Frédéric Moser, Philippe Schwinger 2006 Germany
Tokyo Loop Koji Yamamura (and other 15 filimaker) 2006 Japan
Travelling As 4 Gares Joel Pizzini 2006 Brazil
Untitled Lamya Gargash 2006 United Arab Emirates
Untitled Nicholas & Sheila Pye 2005 Canada
Who'S Marina Abramovic ? Pierre Coulibeuf 2006 France
Who'S Meg Stuart? Pierre Coulibeuf 2006 France
Who'S Michelangelo Pistoletto? Pierre Coulibeuf 2006 France
Windows Shoja Azari 2006 USA
Zoo Salla Tykkä 2006 Finland

Independent Sections

Critics Week

The Semaine de la Critique is an independent section, created in 1990 by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists in partnership with the Locarno Film Festival. [11]

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Az Èlet Vendége The Guest of the Èlet Tibor Szemzö 2006 Hungary
Das Erbe Der Bergler - Alpine Saga The Legacy of the Bergler - Alpine Saga Erich Langjahr 2006 Switzerland
Eggesin Moeglicherweise Eggesin may Have Dirk Heth, Olaf Winkler 2005 Germany
Hardcore Chambermusic Peter Liechti 2006 Switzerland
Red White Black & Blue Tom Putnam 2006 USA
Three Comrades Masha Novikova 2006 Netherlands
Zeit Des Abschieds Time of Farewell Mehdi Sahebi 2006 Switzerland

Swiss Films

Swiss Cinema Center
Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Augen Blicke N Eyes Look n Gitta Gsell Switzerland
Brother Yusef Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel
Building The Gherkin Mirjam von Arx
Carnets De Valse Waltzer's Notebooks Patricia Plattner
Citywalls - My Own Private Tehran Afsar Sonia Shafie
Donde Està Sara Gomes? DONDE is Sara Gomes? Alessandra Mueller
Grounding Tobias Fueter, Michael Steiner
Gérald Metroz, Elle Est Pas Belle La Vie? Gérald Metroz, Isn't Life Beautiful? Jean-François Amiguet
Hedy Lamarr - Secrets Of A Hollywood Star Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini, Barbara Obermaier
Irène Schweizer Gitta Gsell
Josh'S Trees Peter Entell
Kusskuss Couscous Sören Senn
L'Assassinat De Felix Moumié The Assassination of Felix Moumié Frank Garbely
La Mémoire Des Autres The Memory of Others Pilar Anguita-Mackay
La Nébuleuse Du Coeur The Nebula of the Heart Jacqueline Veuve
Le Souffle Du Désert The Breath of the Desert François Kohler
Les Hommes Du Tunnel Tunnel Men Marcel Schüpbach
Les Regles Du Jeu The Rules of the Game Nicolas J. Peart, Pierre Morath 2005
Matchmaker Gabrielle Antonsiewicz
Mein Name Ist Eugen My Name is Eugen Michael Steiner
Näkkäla Peter Ramseier 2005
Ryna Ruxandra Zenide
Stages Marek Beles
The Headsman Simon Aeby
Undercover Sabine Boss
Unser America Our America Kristina Konrad
Voler Est Un Art Flying is an Art Pierre-André Thiébaud
Wer War Kafka Who Was Kafka Richard Dindo
Wrong Number Lewis Husler
Cinema Rediscovered
Alpine Grandeur Alpine Size E.M. Newman 1937 USA
Matto Regiert Matto Rules Leopold Lindtberg 1947 Switzerland
Steibruch Broken Sigfrit Steiner 1942 Switzerland

Appellation Swiss

Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country
Exit, Le Droit De Mourir Exit, the Right to Die Fernand Melgar 2005 Switzerland
Fragile Laurent Nègre 2005 Switzerland
Grounding - Die Letzten Tage Der Swissair Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair Tobias Fueter, Michael Steiner 2006 Switzerland
Hippie Masala - Für Immer In Indien Hippie Masala - Forever in India Urlich Grossenbacher 2006 Switzerland
Jeune Homme Young Man 2006 Switzerland
Lenz Thomas Imbach 2006 Switzerland, Germany
Nachbeben Nominate Stina Werenfels 2005 Switzerland
The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez Heidi Specogna 2006 Germany, Switzerland
Vitus Fredi M. Murer 2006 Switzerland, France
Zum Abschied Mozart To Say Goodbye Mozart Christian Labhart 2006 Switzerland

Official Awards

International Competition

  • Golden Leopard: Das Fräulein directed by Andrea Štaka
  • Special Jury Prize: Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck
  • Leopard for Best Actress: Amber Tamblyn in Stephanie Daley
  • Leopard for Best Actor: Burghart Klaussner in Der Mann Von Der Botschaft
  • Best Direction Prize: Laurent Achard for LE DERNIER DES FOUS
  • Special Mention, Film and Video Subtitling Prize, Gerhard Lehmann AG: Defteri Fisi directed by Vardis Marinakis

Jury Filmmakers of the Present Competition

  • Golden Leopard Filmmakers of the Present C.P. Company: Verfolgt directed by Angelina Maccarone
  • CinéCinéma Special Jury Prize, Filmmakers of the Present Competition: Chand Kilo Khorma Baraye Marassem-E Tadfin directed by Saman Salour
  • Filmmakers of the Present Competition – Special Mention: Tarachime directed by Naomi Kawase

Jury Leopards of Tomorrow

  • Golden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse, Swiss Competition: Nachtflattern directed by Carmen Stalder
  • Silver Leopard, Eastman Kodak Company Prize, Swiss Competition: Aschenbrüder directed by Steve Walker and Markus Heiniger
  • “Action Light” Prize for the Best Newcomer – Swiss Competition: La Vérité Vraie directed by Tania Zambrano Ovalle
  • Golden Leopard, SRG SSR idée Suisse, East of the Mediterranean: Bubachki directed by Igor Ivanov
  • Silver Leopard, Kodak Leopards of Tomorrow Prize: West Bank Story directed by Ari Sandel
  • Film and Video Subtitling Prize, Gerhard Lehmann AG: Bir Damla Su directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
  • Special Mention, Leopards of Tomorrow, Swiss Competition: Nouvel Ordre directed by Ausonio De Sousa, Grégory Bindschedler and Jean-Daniel Schneider

“Cinema e Gioventù” – Leopards of Tomorrow Jury

  • Youth Jury Prize, Leopards of Tomorrow-(Short Films): Aschenbrüder directed by Steve Walker and Markus Heiniger
  • Special Mention, Youth Jury, Short Films: Ram Za Sliku Moje Domovine directed by Elmir Jukić

Jury for the Best first feature

  • Leopard for Best First Feature: L’Année Suivante directed by Isabelle Czajka
  • Special Mention for Best First Feature: So Lange Du Hier Bist directed by Stefan Westerwelle

Piazza Grande

Youth Jury

  • First Prize, Youth Jury: Das Fräulein directed by Andrea Štaka
  • Second Prize, Youth Jury Prize: Chahar Shanbeh Souri directed by Asghar Farhadi
  • “The environnement is the quality of life” Prize: Agua directed by Verónica Chen
  • Special Mention, Youth Jury Prize: Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck, Mnogotochie directed by Andrei A. Eshpal

Ecumenical Jury

FIPRESCI Jury

  • FIPRESCI Prize: Nae-Chungchun-Aegae-Goham directed by Young-Nam Kim

Jury CICAE – Prix Art & Essai

  • Special Mention, CICAE Prize: Mnogotochie directed by Andrei A. Eshpai, Das Fräulein directed by Andrea Štaka
  • CICAE Prix Art & Essai: Jimmy Della Collina directed by Enrico Pau

NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury

  • NETPAC Prize: Nae-Chungchun-Aegae-Goham directed by Young-Nam Kim, Fu Sheng directed by Zhimin Sheng

FICC Jury

SRG SSR idée suisse | Semaine de la critique Prize

  • SRG SSR idée Suisse Prize/Critics Week: Zeit Des Abschieds directed by Mehdi Sahebi
  • Special Mention, Critic Week Jury: Az ÈLet Vendége directed by Tibor Szemzö

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