58th Locarno Film Festival

The 58th Locarno Film Festival was held from 3 to 13 August 2005 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 18 films in competition with a total of 38 countries represented across the entire festival. The opening film was The Rising - Ballad Of Mangal Pandey directed by Ketan Mehta, which was screened on the Piazza Grande, the open-air theater. There was a retrospective of the work of Orson Welles and one for the work of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who served on the festival jury this year. Storaro along with John Malkovich and Susan Sarandon received excellence awards from the festival. While, the Leopard of Honor was awarded to Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Terry Gilliam for their career achievements.

This was Irene Bignardi's last year at the festival after serving five years as the artistic director. The following year her position was filled by Federic Marie.

The Golden Leopard, the festival's top prize, was awarded to Nine Lives by Rodrigo García, which had its international premiere at Locarno and was the only American film in competition.

Official Jury Niki Karimi, Iranian actor Aparna Sen, Indian actor Enki Bilal Yugoslavian director Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese director Valerio Adami, Italian artist Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer

Sections

The following films were screened in these sections:

Piazza Grande English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production CountryBeing John Malkovich Spike Jonze 1999 USADick Tracy (part of the Tribute to Storaro)Warren Beatty 1990 USADon't Come Knocking Wim Wenders 2005 GermanyJo Siffert: Live Fast - Die Young Men Lareida 2005 SwitzerlandMacbeth Orson Welles 1948 USACitizen Dog Mah Nakorn Wisit Sasanatieng 2004 ThailandMerry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Ōshima 1982 Great Britain, Japan, New ZealandMurderball Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro 2004 USANashville Robert Altman 1975 USAOn a Clear Day Gaby Dellal 2004 Great BritainRag Tale Mary McGuckian 2004 Great BritainRize David LaChapelle 2005 USAThe Flyer Fox Revel 2005 South Africa, SwedenThe Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey Ketan Mehta 2005 IndiaTime Bandits Terry Gilliam 1981 Great BritainVillage Football Sainath Choudhury 2004 IndiaZaina: Rider of the Atlas Zaïna, Cavalière De L'Atlas Bourlem Guerdjou 2005 France, GermanyThrough the Olive Trees Zir E Darakhtan É Zeyton Abbas Kiarostami 1994 Iran, France

International Competition

International Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 20 Centímetros 20 Centimeters Ramón Salazar 2005 Spain 3 Grad Kaelter 3 Degrees Kaelter Florian Hoffmeister 2005 Germany Antarmahal - Views From The Inner Chamber Rituparno Ghosh 2005 India Face Addict Edo Bertoglio 2005 Italia, Switzerland Familia Family Louise Archambault 2005 Canada Fratricide Fratricidal Yilmaz Arslan 2005 Germany, Luxembourg, France Keller-Teenage Wasteland Eva Urthaler 2005 Austria, Germany, Italia La Guerra Di Mario Mario's War Antonio Capuano 2005 Italia La Neuvaine The Novena Bernard Émond 2005 Canada Ma Hameh Khoubim - We Are All Fine Bijan Mirbagheri 2005 Iran MirrorMask Dave McKean 2004 Great Britain, USA Nine Lives Rodrigo García 2004 USA Riviera Anne Villacèque 2005 France Snow White 2005 Switzerland, Austria The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes Brothers Quay 2005 Great Britain, Germany, France Un Couple Parfait A Perfect Couple Nobuhiro Suwa 2005 France, Japan Vendredi Ou Un Autre Jour - S(C)Eptique : Deuxième Partie : L'Orgueil Friday or Another Day - S (c) Eptic: Second Part: Pride Yvan Le Moine 2005 Belgium, France, Italia, Slovakia

Filmmakers of the Present The Concorso Cineasti del Presente, also known as the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, showcases first and second feature films from emerging filmmakers.

Filmmakers of the Present Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country 9M2 Pour Deux 9m2 for Two Joseph Césarini, Jimmy Glasberg 2005 France Amour Neutre Neutral Love Pierre Coulibeuf 2005 France Atos Dos Homens - Work In Progress - 2005 Acts of Men - Work in Progress - 2005 Kiko Goifman 2005 Brazil, Germany Cartographie 2 / Les Arches Cartography 2 / the Arches Philippe Saire 2002 Switzerland Cartographie 5 / Rue Centrale 17-19 Cartography 5 / Rue Centrale 17-19 Alain Margot 2004 Switzerland Cartographie 6 / La Vallee De La Jeunesse Cartography 6 / Youth Vallee Fernand Melgar 2005 Switzerland Chère Jacqueline... Dear Jacqueline ... Dominique De Rivaz 2005 Switzerland Delo Osvobaja The Work of Liberating Damjan Kozole 2005 Slovenia En La Cama In Bed Matías Bize 2005 Chile, Germany Frankie Fabienne Berthaud 2005 France Fuori Vena Out of Vein Tekla Taidelli 2005 Italia Gas Luciano Melchionna 2005 Italia Gisela Isabelle Stever 2005 Germany Historias Del Desencanto Stories of Disenchantment Alejandro Valle 2005 Mexico In Un Altro Paese In Another Country Marco Turco 2005 Italia, France J'Ai Besoin D'Air I Need Air Natacha Samuel 2005 France L'Accord The Agreement Béatrice Guelpa, Nicolas Wadimoff 2005 Switzerland, France Le Démon Du Passage The Demon of the Passage Pierre Coulibeuf 1995 France Lonesome Jim Steve Buscemi 2005 USA Lost Paradise Pierre Coulibeuf 2002 France Monobloc Luis Ortega 2005 Argentina, Netherlands Nuit Noire Dark Night Oliver Smolders 2005 Belgium, Netherlands Per Sempre Forever Alina Marazzi 2005 Switzerland Petit Matin Early in the Morning S. Louis 2005 France Sangue - La Morte Non Esiste Blood - Death Does not Exist Libero De Rienzo 2005 Italia The Passenger François Rotger 2005 France, Canada, Japan Vandana Lina Bertucci 2004 USA White Terror Daniel Schweizer 2005 Switzerland, France, Germany, FinlandFilmmakers of the Present - VideoOriginal titleEnglish titleDirector(s)YearProduction countryPiccolo Sole. Vita E Morte Di Henri CrollaSmall Sun. Henri's Life and Death CollapsesNino Bizzarri2005Italia

Open Doors

Open Doors - Maghreb Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country A Casablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas In Casablanca the Angels Do not Fly Mohamed Asli 2004 Morocco Ali Zaoua Nabil Ayouch 2000 Morocco Aliénations Alienations Malek Bensmaïl 2003 Algérie Cousines Cousins Lyes Salem 2003 Algérie, France El Kotbia The Kotbia Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba 2002 Tunisia Histoire D'Une Rencontre History of a Meeting 1980 Algérie Jawhara - Fille De Prison Jawhara - Prison Daughter Saâd Chraibi 2004 Morocco Kanzaman Bloodzen Barbara Galanti 2005 Italia Keïd Ensa Farida Benlyazid 1999 Morocco Khorma, Le Crieur De Nouvelles Khorma, the Crier of News Jilani Saadi 2002 Tunisia L'Arche Du Désert The Desert Ark Mohamed Chouikh 1998 Algérie L'Enfant Endormi The Sleeping Child Jean-Jacques Andrien 2004 Morocco La Chambre Noire The Dark Room Hassan Benjelloun 2004 Morocco La Trace The Trace Néjia Ben Mabrouk Tunisia Le Prince Qui Contemplait Son Âme/Bab'Aziz The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul/Bab'Aziz Nacer Khemir 2005 Tunisia Le Thé D'Ania Ania's Tea Saïd Ould Khelifa 2004 Algérie Machaho Fisher Belkacem Hadjadj 1996 Algérie Mémoire En Détention Detention Memory Jillali Ferhati 2004 Morocco No Man'S Love Nidhal Chatta 2000 Tunisia Oranges Mouzahem Yahia 2003 Algérie, France Poupées D'Argile Clay Dolls Nouri Bouzid 2002 Tunisia Satin RougeRed Satin Raja Amari 2002 Tunisia Tarfaya Hinderer Daoud Aoulad-Syad 2005 Morocco, France Tenja Hassan Legzouli 2004 France, Morocco Un Rêve Algérien An Algerian Dream Jean-Pierre Lledo 2003 Algérie Viva Cuba Long Live Cuba Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti 2005 France, Cuba

Leopards of Tomorrow Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani)

Special Program Special Program - Leopards of Tomorrow Avant Le Petit Déjeuner Before Breakfast Cristi Puiu 1995 Switzerland Childish Nadia Probst 2004 Switzerland Corpo A Corpo Melee Giada Ghiringhelli 2004 Switzerland Disko Bay Disco Bay Aurélie Doutre 2004 Switzerland L'Hotel Balzac Sarah Gabay 1998 Switzerland La Donna Che Si Commuoveva Troppo The Woman Who Was Too Moved Thierry Moro 2005 Switzerland La Grande Ruine The Great Ruin Gaëlle Rouard 1996 Switzerland La Piscine The Pool Anita Holdener 1997 Switzerland Les Courts De Kino Kabaret A Locarno. Exercice Collectif De Cinema Spontane - Auteurs Divers Kino Kabaret's: Short Films in Locarno. Collective Exercise of Spontaneous Cinema Various Authors Mort En Exil Died in Exile Mutlu Saray Ayten 2002 Switzerland Pluk Pick Iuri Rigo 2001 Switzerland Qui Pleure? Who is Crying? Demis Herenger 2000 Switzerland Screaming Jesus Barbara Lehnhoff 2005 Switzerland Self Portrait-Trilogia Self Portrait-Trilogy Claudine Appenzeller 2004 Switzerland Verofalso Exercise pratique réalisé par les élèves de 3eme du CISA, giuidé par Gianfilippo Pedote 2005 Switzerland

African Competition Leopards of Tomorrow - Africa Competition Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Africains Poids Moyens Africans Average Weight Daniel Cattier 2004 Belgium Afrique Annees 60 Africa 60s Felicité Wouassi 2003 France Aligato Spark Maka Sidibé 2003 France Amal Ali Benkirane 2004 France Au-Déla Du Temps Time of Time Jean-Chris Banange Semutakirwa 2004 France Beit Min Lahm Work Min Lame Rami Abdul Jabbar 2005 Egypt By Foot Kai Adam 2004 Germany Clandestin Clandestine Philippe Larue 2003 France Enharda Talateen November Mahmood Soliman 2005 Egypt Exoticore Nicolas Provost 2004 Belgium Ibali The Story Harold Holscher 2003 South Africa L'Évangile Du Cochon Créole The Gospel of the Creole Pig Michelange Quay 2004 France La Femme Seule The Woman Alone Brahim Fritah 2005 France Lahna Lalhih Rachid Boutounes 2004 France Manmuswak Manmuskaq Patrick Bernier, Olive Martin 2005 France Mitterand Est Mort Mitterrand is Dead Hedi Sassi 2003 France Pour La Nuit For the Night Isabelle Boni-Claverie 2004 France Pourquoi ? For What ? Sokhna Amar 2005 Senegal Rencontre En Ligne Online Meeting Adama Roamba 2005 France Riding With Sugar Sunu Gonera 2005 South Africa Rumeur, Etc. Rumor, Etc. Mohamed Latrèche 2003 France Sa/X Gilli Apter 2004 South Africa Signe D'Appartenance Membership 2004 France The One That Fits Inside The Bathtub Inger Smith 2004 South Africa Visa Ibrahim Letaief 2004 Tunisia Yom El-Ethneen Tamer El Said 2004 EgyptAfrica Retrospective Aid El Kebir Big Feast Karin Albou 1998 France Black Sushi Dean Blumberg 2002 South Africa Bol D'Amour Love Bowl Jacques Trabi 2000 France C' Était Pas La Guerre It Was not War Alexandrine Brisson 2002 France Chiens Errants Wandering Dogs Jean-Jacques Andrien 1995 Belgium Feizou Laowai Fe i Walk LA o Outside Josef Kumbela 1998 France Inja Dog Steven Pasvolsky 2001 Australia L'Éxposé The Exposed Ismael ferroukhi 1992 France La Poule Aux Oeufs D'Or The Golden Egg Hen Bassec ba Kobhio 1996 Cameroon Le Chameau Et Les Batons Flottants The Camel and the Floating Sticks Abderrahmane Sissako 1996 Mauritania Le Jeu The Game Abderrahmane Sissako 1990 Mauritania Le Retour De La Main Habile The Skillful Hand Return Tahirou Tasséré Ouédraogo 2002 Burkina Faso Les Pierres Bleues Du Désert The Blue Stones of the Desert Nabil Ayouch 1993 France Lilly Marwan Hamed 2000 Egypt One Sunday Morning Manu Kurewa 1996 Great Britain Petite Lumière Small Light Alain Gomis 2002 Senegal Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning Tebogo Mahlatsi 1999 South Africa Quand Le Soleil Fait Tomber Les Moineaux When the Sun Drops the Sparrows Hassan Legzouli 1999 France Raya Zulfah Ott-Sallies 2001 South Africa Rue Bleue Blue Street Chad Chenouga 1998 France Souko Warehouse Issiaka Konaté 1998 Burkina Faso The Foreigner Zola Mazeko 1997 South Africa The Sky In Her Eyes Madoda Ncayiyana, Ouita Smit 2002 South Africa Ubuntu'S Wounds Sechaba Morojele 2002 USA Une Femme Pour Souleymane A Woman for Souleymane Dyana Gaye 2000 Senegal West Al Balad Amir Ramses 2000 Egypt Yom El-Ahad El-Aadi Normal Sunday Saad Hendawy 1995 Egypt

Swiss Competition