According to centercinemapress , citing Screen Daily, the 74th edition of the Locarno International Festival, which was held from August 4 to 14 (13 to 23 August), announced its winners the  and awarded its main prize to the film “My Revenge” The rest pay cash” he donated

Indonesian filmmaker Edwin, who won the main Locarno prize, the Golden Leopard, for making this film, experienced the world premiere of his film at this festival with this film, which is his latest feature film

“Vengeance is mine, others pay criticism” produced by Indonesia, Singapore and Germany, adapted from a literary work written by Ika Kurniawan

In the 74-year history of Locarno, an Indonesian filmmaker will win the Golden Leopard for the first time

One of the producers of the film, Mohammad Zaidi, instead of Edwin, who had left for his country before the end of the festival and is now in quarantine in Jakarta, received this award and presented it to Southeast Asian cinema. Especially those who have not abandoned cinema in this pandemic situation

In a video message that was broadcast from Edwin at the ceremony, he also said that he hopes that Southeast Asian cinema will always succeed in bringing more colors and flavors to moviegoers, especially for those who are fans of movies about injustice and everything that destroys our humanity. They destroy, be attractive

This was the first time that the awards ceremony was held on a Saturday evening at the Grand Rex Cinema, and in this ceremony, the international jury of this period, headed by the American director Eliza Hitman, awarded the best director award to the veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara for “Zeros and He donated one. The Special Jury Prize was also awarded to Cui Jeongjeong for his first feature film “A New Old Game”

The Panther for the best actress went to the Russian actress Anastasia Krasovskaya for her role in the film “Gerda” by Natalia Kudrasheva, and the award for the best actor went to Mohammad Melali and Valero Skalar for their role in the film “Men of Strange Work” by Neos Balos

The members of the jury also gave special appreciation to the films “Frightened Soul” and “The Soul of a Monster”

In the current cinema section, the Golden Panther award for the first film went to Francesco Montagner for making a documentary about terrorism called “Brotherhood”

The best emerging director award went to Heleb Papo from Belarus for “Legionaire” and the jury’s incentive prize of 25,000 Swiss francs ($19.6,000) was awarded to Emily Ossel for “Our Eternal Summer”. In this section, Saskia Rosenthal and Vejia Agumava were chosen as the best male and female actors

The Swatch Award for the first feature film was also awarded to the British filmmaker Charlotte Colbert for “She Wants” starring Alice Craig and Malcolm McDowell, which had its world premiere at the same festival and in the out-of-competition section. “Holy Amy” by Arasli Lemos was also honored in this section

In the category of the best Swiss short film, “Creature” by Maria Silvia Steve won the main award, and the best international short film award went to “Neon Phantom” by Leonardo Martinelli from Brazil

An hour after the awarding of the main jury, the independent jury also announced their winners, and the World Church Award went to Swiss director Lorenz Mertes for “Soul of a Monster” and the Phiperchi Award for a film from the main competition category went to Bernard Mendicco for “Then From Blue” was awarded. The European Cinema Label Award was also awarded to “Men of Strange Works”

The independent side awards “Semin de la Critic” which is given by the Swiss Journalists’ Association with the participation of the festival, were also awarded in this ceremony

One of the hot topics of this year’s Locarno was the question of the successor of the 77-year-old director of this festival Marco Solari in the future. Carla Speziali, the former mayor of Locarno and the head of Palacinema, is one of the figures whose presence in this post was more likely