Best Direction Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

Best Direction Award
Awarded forBest directed film
CountrySwitzerland
Presented byLocarno International Film Festival
Last awarded2022
Currently held byValentina Maurel for I Have Electric Dreams (Tengo sueños eléctricos)

The Best Direction Award is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It is awarded to the best directed film in the international competition section.

Award Winners

Abel Ferrara has won the award for Zeros and Ones in 2021
Year Film Original title Director Country of production
1946 And Then There Were None René Clair United States
1947 Man About Town Le Silence est d'or René Clair France
1948 Fort Apache (1st prize) John Ford United States
Germany, Year Zero (2nd prize) Germania anno zero Roberto Rossellini Italy
1949 - 1959 : No Award Given
1960 Foma Gordeev [1] Mark Donskoy Soviet Union
1961 - 2005 : No Award Given
2006 Le Dernier des fous (The Last of the Crazy People) Laurent Achard France / Belgium
2007 Capitaine Achab [2] Philippe Ramos France
2008 All That She Wants [3] Elle veut le chaos Denis Côté Canada
2009 Tambourine, Drum [4] Buben, baraban Aleksei Mizgiryov Russia
2010 Curling [5] Denis Côté Canada
2011 Best Intentions [6] Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii Adrian Sitaru Romania
2012 When Night Falls [7] Wo hai you hua yao shou Liang Ying China / South Korea
2013 Our Sunhi Uri Seonhui Hong Sang-soo South Korea
2014 Horse Money Cavalo Dinheiro Pedro Costa Portugal
2015 Cosmos [8] Andrzej Żuławski France / Portugal
2016 The Ornithologist [9] O Ornitólogo João Pedro Rodrigues Portugal / France / Brazil
2017 9 Fingers  [fr] [10] [11] 9 Doigts F. J. Ossang [fr] France / Portugal
2018 Too Late to Die Young [12] [13] Tarde para morir joven Dominga Sotomayor Castillo Chile
2019 Isadora's Children Les Enfants d'Isadora Damien Manivel France/South Korea
2021 Zeros and Ones Abel Ferrara US, Italy
2022 I Have Electric Dreams Tengo sueños eléctricos Valentina Maurel Belgium, France, Costa Rica[14]
2023 Stepne Maryna Vroda Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia
2024 Drowning Dry Seses Laurynas Bareiša Lithuania, Latvia

References

  1. ^ Foma Gordeev on IMDb
  2. ^ Capitaine Achab on IMDb
  3. ^ All That She Wants on IMDb
  4. ^ Tambourine, Drum on IMDb
  5. ^ Curling on IMDb
  6. ^ Best Intentions on IMDb
  7. ^ When Night Falls on IMDb
  8. ^ "Palmarès 2015". Locarno.
  9. ^ "Palmarès 2016". Locarno. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  10. ^ 9 Fingers on IMDb
  11. ^ Anderson, Ariston (12 August 2017). "Locarno Festival: Chinese Documentary 'Mrs. Fang' Wins Golden Leopard". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  12. ^ Too Late to Die Young on IMDb
  13. ^ Ercolani, Adriano (12 August 2018). "Leopard for Best Direction: Dominga Sotomayor". Locarno Festival. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  14. ^ Lodge, Guy (13 August 2022). "Provocative Brazilian Film 'Rule 34' Wins the Top Prize at Locarno Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 13 August 2022.