The Filipino film Lav Diaz, “Mula sa kung ang noon year” (“From What Is Before”), five and a half hours long, this Saturday 16 received the Leopard Gold, the highest distinction of the Locarno Festival, celebrated in the small Swiss town on the shores of Lake Mayor. Pedro Costa was awarded the prize for Best Director.
The film tells the story of an isolated village in the Philippines in 1972 during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos where strange things happen: groans are heard coming from the forest, cows are slaughtered, one ensaguentado man appears in a road intersection and houses are on fire, in a time when military operations multiply and ruthless militias control the rural areas
The Special Jury Prize was awarded to the American film ‘Listen up Philip’, Alex Ross Perry. The leopard was better realization for the Portuguese Pedro Costa with “Horse Money.”
The latest feature film by Portuguese director has world premiere in Locarno. Pedro Costa returns to the poverty of Fontaínhas neighborhood, near Amadora, a central theme in his work dating back to 1997 with “Bones”, followed by “In Vanda’s Room” (2000) and “Colossal Youth” (2006) .
The best actor award went to Russian Artem Bystrov, by interpretation “Durak” (“The Fool”), Yury Bykov, and best actress went to the French Ariane Labed for “Fidelio, L’Odyssée d’Alice” by Lucie Borleteau.
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