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Photo with Leopard: director Júlia Murat (2nd from left) with Sol Miranda, Tatiana Leite, Isabella Mariott and Lucas Andrate
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The feature film »Regra 34« by Brazilian director Júlia Murat won the Golden Leopard at the finale of the 75th Locarno International Film Festival.
The title of the Brazilian-French co-production refers to the so-called Rule 34, according to which pornographic material can be found on the Internet for everything that exists there.
At the center of the feature film is a law student.
She lives out various sexual fantasies on the internet, and not only there.
The juries surprised everyone by awarding the main prize and making a number of other decisions.
The two German contributions "Human Flowers of Flesh" and "Piaffe" as well as other films that were also widely favored went empty-handed.
In the experimental film competition “Pardi di domani”, the short film “Madar tamame rooz doa mikhanad” (“Mothers pray all day”) by Iranian-born Berlin filmmaker and graphic designer Hoda Taheri received an honorable mention.
In the »Semaine de la critique« the main prize went to the Polish-German co-production »The Hamlet Syndrome«.
The jury of the main competition for the Golden Leopard also amazed by awarding the second most important award, the special prize.
It went to the comedy »Gigi la legge« (»Gigi, the Law«) by Italian director Alessandro Comodin.
In it, the rural everyday life of the traffic policeman Gigi is observed in a flood of scenes full of dialogue.
226 films in 471 screenings
Three prizes for best director, best actress (Daniela Marín Navarro) and best actor (Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez) went to »Tengo sueños eléctricos« (»I have electric dreams«) by Costa Rican director Valentina Maurel.
She observes with great sensitivity the difficult growing up of sixteen-year-old Eva.
All winners of the prizes are to be presented to the public on Saturday evening in a gala on the Piazza Grande of the picturesque holiday resort on the Swiss shore of Lake Maggiore.
17 films from all over the world were screened in the international competition.
A total of 226 short, experimental, documentary and feature films were shown in 471 screenings over the eleven days of the festival.
sak/dpa