Locarno unveils 2022 festival, includes Malayalam movie ‘Declaration’
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Indian director Mahesh Narayanan
Malayalam movie ‘Ariyippu’ or ‘Declaration’ by Mahesh Narayanan’s will feature at renowned Locarno Film Festival to be held from August 3-13. The 75th edition of the festival also includes the world premiere of the latest feature from Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov.
The international competition will comprise 17 films, including 10 world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
These titles include Fairytale, a Belgium-Russia co-production written and directed by Sokurov, whose films have played in Competition at Cannes five times with features including Russian Ark in 2002. His debut The Lonely Voice Of a Man received the Bronze Leopard in Locarno in 1987.
The competition line-up also includes Sermon To The Fish from Azerbaijan director HilalBaydarov, whose In Between Dying played in competition at Venice 2020 and whose documentary When The Persimmons Grew won best documentary at Sarajevo in 2019.
Further premieres include Matter Out Of Place by Austria’s NikolausGeyrhalter, whose documentary Erde won Berlin’s Ecumenical Jury prize in 2019; and Rule 34 from Brazil’s Julia Murat, whose 2017 feature Pendular won the Fipresci prize at Berlin in 2017.
The international competition jury will be presided over by Swiss producer Michel Merkt and includes directors Laura Samani, Prano Bailey-Bond and Alain Guiraudie, and producer William Horberg. The festival’s second main competition strand, Filmmakers of the Present, has world premieres of 15 first or second features by filmmakers from the US, Thailand, France and Ukraine among others.
In addition, this year’s Piazza Grande open-air programme of 17 titles includes David Leitch’s Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, which will open the festival on August 3 and Olivia Newman’s Where The Crawdads Sing.
The festival will screen 226 features and shorts, from 113 countries, having received 4,245 submissions. Screenings at Locarno75 will all be physical events, held in Piazza Grande – holding an audience of up to 8,000 – and in the lakeside town’s 13 theatres. It marks the second edition of the festival under artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro. As previously announced, Locarno will hand out several honorary awards including a lifetime achievement awards for Greek-French director Costa-Gavras and US actor Matt Dillon, a best independent producer awards for US genre film producer Jason Blum and an honorary Golden Leopard to US indie director Kelly Reichardt.
The section Concorsointernazionale 2022 will feature Indian film ‘Declaration’ by Mahesh Narayanan, ‘Sermon to The Fish’ (Azerbaijan-Mex-Switz-UK) by HilalBaydarov, ‘Bowling Saturne’ (Fr-Bel) by PatriciaMazuy, ‘De Noche Los Gatos Son Pardos’ (Switz) by ValentinMerz, ‘Gigi La Legge’ by Alessandro Comodin, ‘Tales Of The Purple House’ by Abbas Fahdel, ‘Human Flowers Of Flesh’ by Helena Wittmann, ‘Il Pataffio’ by Francesco Lagi, ‘Matter Out Of Place’ (Austria) by NikolausGeyrhalter, ‘Tommy Guns’ (Port-Fr-Angola) by Carlos Conceição, ‘Piaffe’ (Ger) by Ann Oren, ‘Rule 34’ (Bra-Fr) by Julia Murat, ‘Serviam – Ich Will Dienen’ (Austria) by Ruth Mader, ‘Fairytale’ (Bel-Rus) by Aleksandr Sokurov, ‘Stella Est Amoureuse’ (Fr by Sylvie Verheyde, ‘Stone Turtle’ (Malay) by Dir. Ming Jin Woo and ‘TengoSueñosEléctricos’ (Bel-Fr-Costa) by ValentinaMaurel Concorso Cineast del presente 2021.
A Perfect Day For Caribou (US) directed by Jeff Rutherford 25, Arnold Is A Model Student (Thai-Sing-Fr-Neth-Phil) by SorayosPrapapan, Astrakan (Fr) by David Depesseville, ‘Before I Change My Mind’ (Can) by Trevor Anderson, ‘Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?’ (Nor) by FranciskaEliassen, ‘It Is Night In America’ (It-Fr-Bra) by Ana Vaz, ‘Fragments From Heaven’ (Mor-Fr) by Adnane Baraka, ‘Love Dog’(Pol-Mex-US) by Bianca Lucas, ‘Matadero’ (Arg-Sp-Fr) by Santiago Fillol, ‘Our Lady of The Chinese Shop’ (Angola) by Ery Claver, ‘Petites’ (Fr) by Julie Lerat-Gersant, ‘Petrol’ (Australia) by Alena Lodkina, ‘Safe Place’ (Cro) by Juraj Lerotić, ‘Nightsiren’ (Slovak-Czech) by Tereza Nvotová and ‘How Is Katia?’ (Ukr) by Christina Tynkevych. Piazza Grande section of the festival will feature ‘Bullet Train’ (US) by David Leitch, ‘My Neighbor Adolf’ (Isr-Pol-Col) by Leon Prudovsky, ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ (US) by Olivia Newman, ‘Piano Piano (It) by Nicola Prosatore, ‘Paradise Highway’ (US-Ger-Switz) by Anna Gutto, ‘Medusa Deluxe’ (UK) by Thomas Hardiman, ‘Delta’ (It) by Michele Vannucci, ‘Printed Rainbow’ (India) (2006, short) by GitanjaliRao, ‘Last Dance’ (Switz-Bel) by DelphineLehericey, ‘Une Femme De Notre Temps’ (Fr)
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