The 2018 edition of the Locarno Film Festival has come to a close. The Switzerland-based fest committed to major change this year: President Marco Solari and Vice President Carla Speziali signed the Programming Pledge for Parity and Inclusion in Cinema Festivals. And in other encouraging news to come out of the fest, Dominga Sotomayor’s (“Mar”) “Too Late to Die Young” has won the International Competition’s Leopard for Best Direction. Set in 1990, the drama tells the story of a 16-year-old Chilean girl living off the grid in a remote community.

The International Competition also offered a Special Jury Prize to Yolande Zauberman’s (“The War in Paris”) “M,” a documentary about a man who was sexually abused throughout his childhood in Bneï Brak, known as the world capital of ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Sara Fattahi’s (“Coma”) “Chaos,” a portrait of three Syrian women living in a different time and place, took home the Golden Leopard for best film in the Filmmakers of the Present Competition. Eva Trobisch won top honors in the First Feature Competition for “All Good,” a drama about a woman who is raped by her new boss’ brother-in-law.

Check out all of the female winners below. List adapted from Screen Daily.

International Competition

Special Jury Prize – M by Yolande Zauberman, France

Leopard for Best Direction –Too Late to Die Young by Dominga Sotomayor, Chile-Brazil-Argentina-Netherlands-Qatar

Leopard for Best Actress – Andra Guți for Alice T. by Radu Muntean,

Filmmakers of the Present Competition

Golden Leopard for the best film – Chaos by Sara Fattahi, Austria-Syria-Lebanon-Qatar

Special Jury Prize – Closing Time by Nicole Vögele, Switzerland-Germany

Special Mentions – Fausto by Andrea Bussmann, Mexico-Canada; Rose, character of Young & Alive by Matthieu Bareyre, France

First Feature Competition

First Feature Award (Prize for Best First Feature) – All Good by Eva Trobisch, Germany

Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award – Acid Forest by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Lithuania

Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize – El Laberinto by Laura Huertas Millán, France-Columbia-US

Leopard of Tomorrow – National Competition

Pardino d’oro for the Best Swiss Short Film – Los Que Desean by Elena López Riera, Switzerland-Spain (Locarno Short Film Nominee For The European Film Awards 2018)

Pardino d’argento Swiss Life – Abigail by Magdalena Froger, Switzerland

Piazza Grande Award – With The Wind by Bettina Oberli, Switzerland-France

Other Awards

Ecumenical Jury Prize – Sibel by Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, France-Germany-Luxembourg-Turkey

FIPRESCI Prize – Sibel by Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, France-Germany-Luxembourg-Turkey