The 48th Locarno Film Festival was held from 3 to 13 August 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film was the newly restored print of Senso directed by Luchino Visconti. The festival featured the first complete retrospective of Abbas Kirostami's entire filmography and had multiple Iranian film sections. The Leopard of Honor was awarded to Jean-Luc Goddard, who accepted and immediately donated the $17,000 reward to Amnesty International. Goddard was also on hand to present the first four chapters of his Histoire(s) du cinéma project, which attracted large spillover crowds. In competition, the festival featured the world premiere of Gonin directed by Takashi Ishii and Amos Poe's Dead Weekend.
The festival had no Italian films in competition this year, in part due to Italian producers refusing to agree to Locarno within the deadline as they waited to hear back from the Venice Film Festival. This irritated Marco Mueller, the artistic director and head of the Locarno festival, who ended his arrangement with the Venice festival to scout Asian films for them. Mueller told the press Venice had failed to reciprocate finding Italian films for Locarno as he had done with discovering Asian films for the Venice festival.
In addition, Mueller discussed with the press his plan to radically change the festival in the following year. Attracting talented establish filmmakers was always difficult at Locarno not just because of other festivals, but also because the competition was traditionally limited to first or second time directors. Mueller voiced his interest in creating a new competitive category for established filmmakers, while retaining the traditional new talent section. Despite its issues, Locarno continued to be a commercial success, with average ticket sales reaching 15,000 people per day.
The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Raï directed by Thomas Gilou.
Official Jury Alfredo Bini, Jury Head, Italian producer Charles Burnett, American director Carlos Carrera, Mexican director and writer Edmund White, American writer Official Sections
The following films were screened in these sections: Piazza Grande
The following films were selected for the Piazza Grande section: English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country The White Balloon Badkonak-E Sefid Jafar Panahi 1995 IranBombay Mani Ratnam 1995 India The Written Face Das Geschriebene Gesicht Daniel Schmid 1995 Switzerland Man's Hope Espoir André Malraux 1945 FranceEvidence Godfrey Reggio 1995 Italy JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December Jlg/Jlg - Autoportrait De Decembre Jean-Luc Godard 1994 France, Switzerland The School La Scuola Daniele Luchetti 1995 ItalyLand And Freedom Ken Loach 1995 Great Britain Rendezvous in Paris Les Rendez-Vous De Paris Éric Rohmer 1994 FranceMute Witness Anthony Waller 1994 GermanyNadja Michael Almereyda 1995 USA Night and Fog Nuit Et Brouillard Alain Resnais 1956 France To Hear the Birds Singing Para Recibir El Canto De Los Pajaros Jorge Sanjinés 1995 BoliviaSenso Luchino Visconti 1954 ItalySmoke Wayne Wang 1994 USATo Die For Gus Van Sant 1995 USAWitch Hunt Paul Schrader 1994 USA
Main Competition
The following films were screened for the Golden Leopard competition: English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country Love is Colder Than Death Ask Ölümden Soguktur Canan Gerede 1995 Turkey Haircut Corte De Cabelo Joaquim Sapinho 1995 PortugalDead Weekend Amos Poe 1995 USA Der Nebelläufer Jörg Helbling 1995 Switzerland Sweet France Douce France Malik Chibane 1994 FranceGonin Takashi Ishii 1995 Japan Guimba the Tyrant Guimba - Un Tyran, Une Epoque Cheick Oumar Sissoko 1993 Mali The Last Wedding Kivenpyörittäjän Kylä Markku Pölönen 1995 Finland Love(ly) Lies Liebe Lügen Christof Schertenlieb 1995 SwitzerlandPanther Mario Van Peebles 1994 USARaï Thomas Glou 1995 France Tropical Fish Redai Yu Chen Yu-hsun 1995 Taiwan The Blue Veiled Rusariye Abi Rakhshān Banietemad 1994 Iran Seven in Waiting Sept En Attente Françoise Etchegaray 1995 FranceTarget Sandip Ray 1994 IndiaInstitute Benjamenta Or This Dream People Call Human LifeQuay Brothers 1995 Great BritainThe Young Poisoner's Handbook Benjamin Ross 1994 Great BritainTokyo Fist Shinya Tsukamoto 1995 Japan Goodlbye Tot Ziens Heddy Honigmann 1995 Netherlands The Breath Umihoozuki Kaizo Hayashi 1995 Japan, Taiwan
Filmmakers of the Present Filmmakers of the Present - Out of Competition (Fuori Concorso) Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Chaque Jour Pour Sarajevo Every Day for Sarajevo Patrick Barrat, Ademir Kenovic 1994 Bosnia and Herzegovina, France Dukhovnye Golosa Spiritual Voices Aleksandr Sokurov 1995 Russia Etat Des Lieux State of the Jean-François Richet 1994 France Friends Tom Jarmusch 1994 USA Haramuya Dawaya Drissa Touré 1995 Burkina Faso Hikayatul Sawahir A Thalath Halitel Zohir a Three Michel Khleifi 1995 I Parrini - Preti Di Palermo The Parrini - Preti of Palermo Aurelio Grimaldi 1995 Italy Imphy, Capitale De La France Imphy, Capital of France Luc Moullet 1995 France La Biblioteca The Library Silvio Soldini 1995 Italy Le Grand Jeu De La Vie The Great Game of Life Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch 1994 Switzerland Lettere Dall'America Letters from America Gianfranco Pannone 1995 Italy Muriel Fait Le Desespoir De Ses Parents Muriel Makes Her Parents' Despair Philippe Faucon 1995 France Non Dimenticare Palermo Don't Forget Palermo Aurelio Grimaldi 1995 Italy Nos Guerres Imprudentes Ourselves Imprudent Randa Chahal Sabag 1995 France Oggi È Un Altro Giorno - Milano 1945 - 1995 Today is Another Day - Milan 1945 - 1995 Bruno Bigoni, Giuseppe De Santis 1995 Italy Ogni Sedia Ha Il Suo Rumore - Ritratto Di Alda Merini Each Chair Has Its Own Noise - Portrait of Alda Merini Antonietta De Lillo 1995 Italy Out of the Present Andrei Ujica 1995 Germany Sobyan Oue Banat Yousry Nasrallah 1995 Egypt Spioni Spies Roberto Torre 1995 Italy Stills Mijke de Jong 1995 Netherlands Trying To Kiss The Moon Stephen Dwoskin 1994 Great Britain À Propos De Nice, La Suite About Nice, the Continuation Isabella Sandri 1995 France
Leopards of Tomorrow The following films were screened in the Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani) Special Program (Pardi di Domani)Original titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction countryLa Macchina CinemaThe Cinema MachineSilvano Agosti, Marco Bellocchio1976ItalyUno Due E TreOne Two and ThreeEmidio Greco1966ItalySpecial Video Program (Pardi di Domani)Voie De GarageSidingFulvio Bernasconi1995Switzerland Italian Short Films – In Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Ade E Core Hades and Cores Carolos Zonars 1995 Italy All At Sea Anna Negri 1993 Italy Anima E Corpo Soul and Body Sergio Loiacono 1995 Italy Ba Ba Baciami Not a Bacami Raffaella Russo 1995 Italy Brentano Romeo Castellucci 1995 Italy Ciao Amore Hi Love Lorenzo Mieli, Francesco Villa 1995 Italy Dal Profondo Depth Andrea Costantini 1995 Italy Di Quale Amore Of What Love Nello Correale 1994 Italy Distanza Di Sicurezza Safety Distance Valentina Pascarelli 1994 Italy Drogheria Grocery Maurizio Fiume 1995 Italy Due O Tre Two or Three Armando Ceste 1994 Italy Due Alberto Vendemmiati 1994 Italy Ene Mene Mu T Daniela Knapp 1994 Italy Festa Party Carlo A. Sigon 1994 Italy Frusta-Azioni Whisk Dario D'Ambrosi 1995 Italy Gioco Da Vecchi Old Game Andrea Zaccariello 1995 Italy Il Caricatore The Charger Eugenio Cappuccio 1995 Italy Il Mistero Di Rosa The Mystery of Rosa Segatori Segatori 1992 Italy Il Sorvegliante The Supervisor Francesca Frangipane 1993 Italy L'Amico The Friend Roberto De Francesco 1994 Italy L'Orecchio Ferito Del Piccolo Comandante The Wounded Ear of the Small Commander Daniele Gaglianone 1993 Italy L'Ultimo Uomo The Last Man Beniamino Catena 1995 Italy La Regola Del Sonno The Rule of Sleep Michele Fasano 1995 Italy La Sosta Stop Alberto Callari 1994 Italy La Sveglia The Alarm Clock Marco Turco 1994 Italy Legami Di Sangue Blood Ties Domenico Liggeri 1995 Italy No Mamma No Cecilia Calvi 1993 Italy Open House Nina Mimica 1995 Italy Passo A Passo Con Le Stelle Step by Step with the Stars Marcel Cordeiro 1994 Italy People Never Change Anita Sieff 1995 Italy Qualche Anno Fa A few Years Ago Massimo Bettini 1995 Italy Quam Mirabilis Than Wonderful Alberto Rondalli 1994 Italy Quasi Una Storia Almost a Story Vittorio Moroni 1995 Italy Schneeberg Andreas Pichler 1994 Italy Senti Amor Mio? Do you Feel My Love? Roberta Torre 1994 Italy Sette Anni Son Troppo Lunghi Seven Years are Too Long Andrea Gropplero 1993 Italy Sole Roberto Di Vito 1994 Italy Tempo Stazionario Steady Time Elena Gamba 1994 Italy Un Incubo Relativo A Relative Nightmare Volfango De Biasi 1995 Italy Vorrei Urlare I Would Like to Scream Monica Stambini 1994 Italy Vuoto Perdere Empty Losing Antonio Manzini 1995 Italy Zoo Roberto Dordit 1995 ItalySwiss Short Films – In Competition 100 Volte Mariano Snider 1995 Switzerland 50% Absolut Igor Bauersima 1994 Switzerland Avant Le Petit Dejeuner Before Breakfast Cristi Puiu 1995 Switzerland Bête De Scène Scene Bernard Nissille 1994 Switzerland, France Can Girl Be Butchers Too? Doraine Green 1995 Switzerland Dans Le Petit Bois In the Small Wood Mamouda Zekrya 1995 Switzerland Der Filmrestaurator The Film Restorer Adrian Remund 1994 Switzerland En Apparence Apparently Olivier Zimmermann 1994 Switzerland L'Innocence Interdite Innocence Prohibited Guy Maezelle 1994 Belgium, Switzerland La Couveuse The Incubator Jeanne Waltz 1995 Portugal, France Le Bonheur À Cloche-Pied Happiness with a Bell Jacqueline Surchat 1994 Switzerland Le Jour Du Bain Bath Day Dominique De Rivaz 1994 Switzerland, Ukraina Max Christian Davi 1995 Switzerland Murder - They Said! Misha Gyorik 1995 Switzerland Nocturne Sandrine Normand 1995 Switzerland Rattenfang Rat Stefan Jäger 1995 Switzerland Ruben Urs Baur 1995 Switzerland Umbo El Samuel Olivier Sillig 1995 SwitzerlandAutuer Short films1960Massimo Guglielmi1985ItalyAltre VociOther VoicesPasquale Pozzessere1990ItalyAndare E VenireGo and GoGiuseppe Bertolucci1971ItalyAnjutaIfCarlo Verdone1974ItalyAppunti Per Un Film Sul JazzNotes for a Jazz MovieGianni Amico1965ItalyBlack HarvestGuido Chieso1986ItalyCollage Di Piazza Del PopoloCollage of Piazza Del PopoloSandro Fraschini1960ItalyDaniloCorso Salani1988ItalyDel Monte PisanoOf Monte PisanoPaolo Benvenuti1971ItalyDrimageSilvio Soldini1982ItalyEremoHermitageSandro Cecca1980ItalyErostratoErostralRoberto Faenza1965ItalyFuori CampoOff -PitchPeter Del Monte1969ItalyGinepro Fatto UomoJuniper Made ManMarco Bellocchio1962ItalyIl CartapestaioThe Papier -MâchéPaolo Benvenuto1978ItalyIl Potere Deve Essere BianconeroPower Must be Black and WhiteDaniele Segre1978ItalyIncontro Di Una Notte Ou AntiorfeoA Night of the Night Ou Anti -LerfeoLiliana Cavani1960ItalyLa BattagliaThe BattleLiliana Cavani1961ItalyLa Colpa E La PenaThe Fault and the PenaltyMarco Bellocchio1961ItalyLa Fine Del GiocoThe End of the GameGianni Amelio1970ItalyLa Guerra Appena FinitaThe War Just overFrancesca Archibugi1983ItalyLa Magia È Il Profumo Della VitaMagic is the Scent of LifeBruno Bigoni1980ItalyLa TorracciaGiuseppe Ferrara1959ItalyLa VegliaWakingSilvano Agosti1962ItalyMerci MariùThank you MarriedVito Zagarrio1974ItalyNon Date Da Mangiare Agli AnimaliDo not Feed AnimalsDavide Ferrario1987ItalyOverkillMaurizio Zaccaro1982ItalyRobinson In LagunaMario Brenta1985ItalyStefano JuniorMaurizio Ponzi1969Italy
Histoire(s) du cinéma by Jean-Luc Godard