The Japanese film “Tabi to Hibi” by director Sho Miyake won the golden leopard in international competition on Saturday on the last day of the Locarno festival. The two Swiss films (“Le Lac”, “Le Bambine”) in this category leave empty -handed.
The film of the screenwriter and director Sho Miyake consists of two independent intrigues, each based on a manga by the designer Yoshiharu Tsuge. The first story takes us in summer, by the sea. The spectator attended a sensual meeting between the characters Nagisa and Natsuo.
The second part of the film carries the spectator in winter, in a snowy village. The screenwriter Li y crosses Benzo, who holds a guest house. While the first meeting is silent and sensual, the second encourages Li to reflect on his life.
By winning the golden leopard, “Tabi to Hibi” won against 17 other films presented in international competition at the 78th Locarno film festival. Still in this category, the Prize for the best achievement goes to the Iraqi-French director Abbas Fahdel for his film “Tales of the Wounded Land”, which deals with daily life in southern Lebanon during and after the war.
Double distinction pour “White Snail”
The prizes for the best interpretation were awarded to Manuela Martelli, of Chilean nationality, and Ana Marija Veselcic, Croatian, for the film “God will not help” and to Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov, the only man, both Belarusian, in “White Snail”, an Austro-Allemande co-production. This drama also won the special jury prize.
In “White Snail”, Marya Imbro embodies a young suicidal Belarusian who dreams of a modeling career. While she is hospitalized, she observes Misha, played by Mikhail Senkov, who works in the morgue.
Her work, which touches death closely, fascinates her. These marginal characters, on which a veil of sadness hovers, will eventually love to love each other.
Special mention
The two Swiss co -productions retained in international competition were distinguished in other categories. “The lake” of the neuchâtel director Fabrice Aragno won a special mention of the price of the Ecumenical Jury. The first film of this former accomplice of Jean-Luc Godard follows the duo, made up of Clothilde Courau and the Swiss navigator Bernard Stamm, in a race of several days on Lake Geneva.
He is also distinguished by the first prize of the Junior Jury Awards while “The Mosquitoes” (“Le Bambine”) by Valentina and Nicole Bertani, the second Swiss film in international competition, obtains a special mention.
Award -winning actor in a Swiss film
In the “filmmakers of the present” section, the first fiction film “Don’t Let The Sun” by Zurich director Jacqueline Zünd did not win the Golden Leopard, but still obtained the prize for the best interpretation. He was awarded to the Georgian actor Levan Gelbakhiani, who plays the role of Nika’s father, a nine-year-old girl, at the request of her mother.
This article was published automatically. Source: ATS
