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Only 16% of Locarno Film Fest Lineup Directed by Women

Less than one out of every six features screened in the major programs at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival (August 6–16) will be directed by a woman.

Of the 56 films playing at the Piazza Grande (“films with a powerful impact), in competition (Concorso internazionale), in competition as first or second works (Concorso Cineasti del presente), or as part of the Signs of Life sidebar (for experimental films), a paltry nine are from female filmmakers.

As previously announced, Agnes Varda will receive a lifetime achievement award from the festival this year. A selection of her films will also be screened at Locarno. Also honored for their film work will be Juliette Binoche and Mia Farrow.

Here are the women-directed films to play at the 2014 Locarno festival:

Piazza Grande

LAND HO! by Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens

United States/Iceland — 2014–95 min.

with Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson

Production: Gamechanger Films, Syncopated Films, Max Cap Productions
World Sales: Sony Pictures Releasing International
Swiss distributor: The Walt Disney Company (Switzerland) GmbH

LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS by Agnès Varda

France — 2008–110 min.

Documentary

Production: Ciné-Tamaris, ARTE France Cinéma
World Sales: Ciné-Tamaris
Pardo d’onore Swisscom to Agnès Varda

LOVE ISLAND by Jasmila Žbanić

Croatia/Germany/Switzerland/Bosnia and Herzegovina — 2014–86 min.
with Ariane Labed, Ermin Bravo, Ada Condeescu, Franco Nero
Production: Produkcija živa

Co-production: Komplizen Film, Okofilm Productions, Deblokada
World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH

World Premiere

Concorso internazionale

CURE — THE LIFE OF ANOTHER by Andrea Štaka
Switzerland/Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina — 2014–83 min.
with Sylvie Marinković, Lucia Radulović, Marija Škaričić, Mirjana Karanović, Leon Lučev, Franjo
Dijak
Production: Okofilm Productions
Co-production: Deblokada, Ziva produkcija
Swiss distributor: Pathé Films
World Premiere

FIDELIO, L’ODYSSÉE D’ALICE by Lucie Borleteau
France — 2014–95 min.
with Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Danielsen Lie
Production: Apsara Films, Why Not Productions
Co-production: ARTE France Cinema
First Feature — World Premiere

Concorso Cineasti del presenti

SONGS FROM THE NORTH by Soon-Mi Yoo
United States/South Korea/Portugal — 2014–72 min.
Documentary
Production: Rosa filmes
First feature — World Premiere

Signs of Life

AMORI E METAMORFOSI by Yanira Yariv
France/Italy — 2014–88 min.
with Andrea Vergoni, Gabriella Basso Ricci, Andrea Lorenzo Donnino Forzani, Marianna Murgia,
Giulia Sulas, Christian Cristalli, Ondina Quadri, Lola Kola, Giacomo Fadda
Production: Acis Productions, Dugong
World Premiere

ANTIGONA DESPIERTA (Antigone Awake) by Lupe Pérez García
Spain — 2014–63 min.
with Gala Perez Iñesta, Sibel Tresaco Lera, Francisco Javier Lera Terés, Maria Lera Gracia, Manuel
Tresaco Lera
Co-production: TOMA 78, LABYRINT FILMS
World Premiere

EL ESCARABAJO DE ORO (The Gold Bug) by Alejo Moguillansky and Fia-Stina Sandlund
Argentina/Denmark/Sweden — 2014–100 min.
with Rafael Spregelburd, Walter Jakob, Luciana Acuña, Agustina Sario, Matthieu Perpoint, Georg
Tielmann, Fernando Tur, Andrea Garrote
Production: EL PAMPERO CINE, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Swedish
Film Institute, Danish Film Institute
Co-production: Milkwood, Universidad del Cine
International Premiere


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