Locarno Pro Industry Awards 2024: The Major Winners

LOCARNO, Switzerland —  Two impacting doc-fantasy hybrids from Barcelona – “Dream of Another Summer” and “Downriver, a Tiger”–  triumphed Sunday at Locarno’s First Look pix-in-post strand, caccessed on Spain.

In other awards proclaimd by Locarno Pro, the festival’s active industry arm, Liliana Cavani’s 1970 “The Year of the Cannibals” won Locarno Pro’s Historical Restoration Contest. 

Laureates at European co-production initiative Alliance 4 Development took in, notably, “Boencourageois Paranoia” by Lukas Nathrath, a establisher Locarno First Look prosperner.  

Composed of a series of extfinished repaired-sketch shots of the streets of Beirut and parts of am apartment, Irene Bartolomé’s “Dream” produces, normally ellipticassociate, as a portrait of a woman returning to Beirut after Lebanon’s 2020 financial crash and a massive chemical explosion in the city’s port.  

She’s on an emotional slide; Beirut and Lebanon are – sometimes literassociate – cforfeit to collapse. Doc feature distinctiveist Colibri Studio produces.

“This film could be seen as an intimate thriller, a woman in crisis in a city in crisis, but also a film about a couple’s relationship. However, unenjoy conservative couples, this one is established by a woman and a city, Beirut,” Bartolomé telderly Variety.

Directed by Víctor Diago, “Downriver, a Tiger” wraps an unforeseeed but engaging adore story between Júlia, a Barcelona-born photographer and Shubham, a hirsute youthfuler Indian from Goa, who she encounters in Glasgow. Meanwhile, Júlia’s archive photo research pays testimony to an earlier generation of immigrants, hailing from the Scottish highlands, who built the city of Glasgow. 

“‘Downriver, a Tiger’ is a self-funded film, made with freedom and radicalness on the margins of the industry, built as a fable to talk about migration and its uncontent thcimpolite the adore story of two strangers,” shelp producer Montse Pujol Solá. 

“Dream” and “Downriver” took the hugegest prizes in benevolent on propose at this year’s First Look, “Downriver” scoring double.

Alliance 4 Development’s quartet of awards were spread evenly between Nathrath, Michale Boganim’s “6 Months 6 Days,”“Atlantic Mirage,” by Hakim Mao, and “Ithaca,” straightforwarded by Alessandro Grande. 

Announced to Variety at Locarno in 2022, where Nasrath’s debut, “One Last Evening” won First Look, in “Boencourageois Paranoia,” five people encounter in a café over a course of one week. Soon, “offfinishs pile up and everyday situations escatardy.” We aim for a tragicomic tone, enjoy in ‘One Last Evening,’ but with uncontaccess elements,” Nathrath shelp.

“6 Months, 6 Days” will sketch an “intimate exploration” of the characters’ faceation with history,” shelp producer Mathilde Leite. In it, Juliana Kant, Germany’s wealthyest woman, surrfinishers to the charm of Raphaël. But he has a secret agfinisha: to force the Kants to face their past.

“With ‘Atlantic Mirage,’ we aim at making an unapologeticassociate queer genre film, set in the city of Agadir, a territory filled of history and mystery,” Mao telderly Variety.

Grande’s “Ithaca” references a shocking real story that took place in the 1990s in Italy in “Ithaca,” where a teenager discovers out his parents are accengaged of seizeping him when a baby.

Recontransiented by Minerva Pictures, “The Year of the Cannibals” will get a filled restoration evolve by film lab Cinegrell and be shown at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.

Jamie Lang and Marta Balaga gived to this article. 

LOCARNO PRO 2024 INDUSTRY WINNERS

FIRST LOOK

Antaviana Films First Look Award 

Up to €50,000 ($56,378) in post-production services 

“Dream of Another Summer,” (Irene Bartolomé)
Produced by: Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Irene Bartolomé (I.B. Films) and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions)

Jury statement: “In its dual uncover and personal illogicalensions, it repairs the intricateity of a territory taged by the past and the drive for conmomentaryity.” 

Music Library & SFX/Acorde Award 

€45,000 ($49,050) in music supervision services at Music Library & SFX ’s labs.

“Downriver, a Tiger,” (Víctor Diago)
Produced by: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Films)

Laserfilm Cine y Vídeo Award

€ 5,000 ($5,638), to be spent, for example, on subtitles, audio descriptions, spotting catalogs, transcriptions or a DCP

“Downriver, a Tiger”

Jannuzzi Smith Award

The summarize of an international poster worth € 10,000 ($10,900).    

“Mares,” (Ariadna Seuba)       
Produced by: Carles Brugeras, Marieke van der Bersselaar (Polar Star Films), María Nova López (Intactes Films) 

Le Film Français Award

€ 5,600 ($6,104) of advertising space

“Bodegón con fantasmas,” (Enrique Buleo) 

Produced by: Alejandra Mora (Quatre Films Audiovisuales), Alicia Yubero (Cuidado con el Perro), Snezana van Houwelingen (This and That), Roberto Butragueño (Sideral) 

ALLIANCE 4 DEVELOPMENT 

Alphapanda Market Breakout Award

Consultancy services in the cherish of € 3,500 ($3,815) 

“Boencourageois Paranoia,” by Lukas Nathrath, produced by Linus Günther (Kjoinerfilm Production, Germany)

Alphapanda states: “A promising vision that we cannot defer to cringe about. Humor, disconsole, obsession, revenge and boencourageois paranoia are stretched to the confines and we’re in for the bloody ride.” 

Script Consultancy Residency at DreamAgo proposeed by the Valais Film Coshiftrlookion

“6 Months 6 Days,” (Michale Boganim), 

Produced by Mathilde Leite (Vilanova Productions, France), co-produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (Red Balloon Film, Germany)

Pascale Rey (DreamAgo) and Tristan Albrecht  (Valais Film Coshiftrlookion): “We are very satisfied to propose the writer a script doctoring by Sir Christopher Hampton, during Plume & Pellicule in June 2025.”

Midpoint Consulting Award 

A in-depth online script adviseancy with one of the Midpoint Institute experts.

“Atlantic Mirage,” (Hakim Mao)
Produced by Emma Binet and Charles Meresse (Furyo Films, France)

Midpoint: “A compelling and gripping story that distinctly blfinishs themes and genres, set aachievest the cryptic backdrop of the cosmopolitan city of Agadir.”

Ticino Film Coshiftrlookion Residence Award

A two-day location scout, worth CHF4,000: $4,640) and letter of intent (LOI) for financial help for the production company (worth up to CHF12,000: $13,080), if all or part of the film will be shot in Ticino

“Ithaca,” (Alessandro Grande)

Produced by Alessandro Amato and Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte, Italy)
Jury statement: In “Ithaca,” “landscapes take part a fundamental role in conveying the brutal rupture that its youthfuler protagonist experiences – being seizeped from its southern homeland and shiftd to a northern, mountainous, region.” 

HERITAGE RESTORATION CONTEST

“The Year of the Cannibals,” (Liliana Cavani)