Vital Zone, an Iranian drama shot in unrevealed by means of dissident director Ali Ahmadzadeh, has received the Yellowish Leopard honor for best possible movie on the 2023 Locarno Film Festival.

Ahmadzadeh, who has been forbidden from resignation Iran, was once not able to wait the awards rite, held on the Swiss town Saturday evening. The Iranian executive confused the director to tug the movie from pageant. Thru its tale of a person and his canine, who navigate Tehran’s underworld, promoting medication and speaking to distressed souls, Vital Zone depicts a crowd rebelling towards an oppressive regime whatsoever it will probably. Produced by means of Germany’s Counter Intuitive Movie, Vital Zone is being bought international by means of Luxbox.

Any other proudly political filmmaker, British legend Ken Loach, received the target market award, the UBS Prix du Folk, at Locarno’s 76th annual competition for his unedited (and most likely terminating) property movie: The Worn Oak. The drama, which premiered in Cannes, facilities on a working-class English pub whose regulars welcome a bunch of Syrian refugees.

Romanian art-house favourite Radu Jude received the Particular Jury Prize in Locarno for his unedited, laconic aim, Do No longer Be expecting Too A lot From the Finish of the Global. Ukrainian filmmaker Maryna Vroda took the most efficient director prize for her property debut, Stepne.

The gender-neutral performing awards, presented at Lorcano this past, going to Dimitra Vlagopoulou for Animal from Greek filmmaker Sofia Exarchou, and to Renée Soutendijk for Ena Sendijarević’s Candy Goals.

The 77th Locarno Movie Competition will shoot playground from Aug. 7-17, 2024.

A complete record of 2023 Locarno award winners follows.

Concorso Internazionale

Pardo d’oro, Brilliant Prize of the Competition of the Town of Locarno to the most efficient movie

Mantagheye Bohrani (Vital Zone), director Ali Ahmadzadeh, Iran/Germany

Particular Jury Prize of the Towns of Ascona and Losone

Nu Aștepta Prea Mult de los angeles Sfârșitul Lumii (Do No longer Be expecting Too A lot from the Finish of the Global), director Radu Jude, Romania/Luxembourg/France

Croatia Pardo for Highest Course of the Town and Area of Locarno

Maryna Vroda for Stepne, director Ukraine/Germany/Poland/Slovakia

Pardo for Highest Efficiency

Dimitra Vlagopoulou for Animal

Pardo for Highest Efficiency

Renée Soutendijk for Candy Goals

Particular Point out

Nuit Difficult to understand – Au Revoir Ici, N’importe Où, director Sylvain George, France/Switzerland

Concorso Cineasti del Presente

Pardo d’oro Concorso Cineasti del presente for best possible movie

Hao Jiu Bu Jian (Dreaming & Loss of life), director Nelson Yeo, Singapore/Indonesia

Highest Rising Director Award of the Town and Area of Locarno

Katharina Huber for Ein Schöner Ort, director Germany

Particular Jury Prize CINÉ+

Tenting du Lac, director Éléonore Saintagnan, Belgium/France

Pardo for Highest Efficiency

Clara Schwinning for Ein Schöner Ort

Pardo for Highest Efficiency

Isold Halldórudóttir and Stavros Zafeiris for Touched

Particular Mentions

Ekskurzija (Tour), director Una Gunjak, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/Serbia/France/Norway/Qatar

Negu Hurbilak, director Colectivo Negu, Spain

First Trait

Swatch First Trait Award for Hao Jiu Bu Jian (Dreaming & Loss of life), director Nelson Yeo, Singapore/Indonesia

Concorso Corti d’Autore

Pardino d’oro Swiss While for the Highest Auteur Trim Movie

The Passing, director Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, USA

Particular Point out and Trim Movie candidate of the Locarno Movie Competition for the Ecu Movie Awards

Been There, director Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Switzerland

Concorso Internazionale, Pardi di Domani

Pardino d’oro SRG SSR for the Highest International Trim Movie

En Undersøgelse Af Empati (A Learn about of Empathy), director Hilke Rönnfeldt, Denmark/Germany

Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the World Pageant

Du Bist So Wunderbar, director Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes, Germany/Brazil

Pardi di domani Highest Course Award – BONALUMI Engineering

Eric Okay. Boulianne for Faire Un Enfant, director Canada

Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award

Negahban (The Preserve), director Amirhossein Shojaei, Iran

Particular Point out

The Fans, director Carolina Sandvik, Sweden

Concorso Nazionale, Pardi di Domani

Pardino d’oro Swiss While for the Highest Swiss Trim Movie

Letzte Nacht, director Lea Bloch, Switzerland

Pardino d’argento Swiss While for the Nationwide Pageant

Night time Shift, director Kayije Kagame, Hugo Radi, Switzerland

Highest Swiss Newcomer Award

Letzte Nacht, director Lea Bloch, Switzerland

Pardo Verde Ricola

Čuvari Formule (Guardians of the Method), director Dragan Bjelogrlić, Serbia/Slovenia/Montenegro/ North Macedonia

Particular Mentions

Procida, movie made by means of the contributors of Procida Movie Atelier, Italy

Valley Delight, director Lukas Marxt, Austria/Germany

Detached Jury Awards

UBS Prix du Folk

The Worn Oak, director Ken Loach, U.Okay./France/Belgium

Selection Piazza Grande Award

Guardians of the Method, director Dragan Bjelogrlić, Serbia/Slovenia/Montenegro/North Macedonia

Ecumenical Jury Award

Patagonia, director Simone Bozzelli, Italy

Particular Point out

Do No longer Be expecting Too A lot From the Finish of the Global, director Radu Jude, Romania/Luxembourg/France/Croatia

FIPRESCI Award

Stepne, director Maryna Vroda Ukraine/Germany/Poland/Slovakia

Ecu Cinemas Label Award

Yannick, director Quentin Dupieux, France

Critics’ Year Aawards

Brilliant Prix

Monogamia, director Ohad Milstein, Israel

Premio Zonta Membership Locarno

Les Soeurs Pathan, director Eléonore Boissinot, France

Marco Zucchi Award

Les Premiers Jours, director Stéphane Breton, France