SHORT NEWS

Locarno 2025:
WHITE SNAIL wins two major awards

Phantastic Locarno palmarès:
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peters's first fiction film WHITE SNAIL is a double winner at the Locarno Concorso Internazionale: 
  • Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and Losone
  • Pardo for Best Performance – Marya Imbro & Mikhail Senkov
The Pardo award ceremony closed an amazingly successful Locarno festival for Austrian filmmaking: at the Alliance 4 Development meeting no less than three awards went to the projects IN THE HIDDEN and THE FLOWERING OF THE CHIMERA.

 
 
International Competition Pardo d'oro

WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter
produced by Panama Film with Raumzeitfilm and DE

  • Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and Losone
  • Pardo for Best Performance – Marya Imbro & Mikhail Senkov


Minority Co-productions
AS ESTACŌES by Maureen Fazendeiros
co-produced by Nabis Filmgroup with PT, FR, ES

DRACULA by Radu Jude
co-produced by Nabis Filmgroup with RO, LU
 
 
The following films/projects are also part of this year's Locarno Film Festival:
 
Semaine de la Critique
GREEN LIGHT by Pavel Cuzuioc
produced by Pavel Cuzuioc Filmproduktion
 
Alliance 4 Development
IN THE HIDDEN by Goran Rebić
produced by Amour Fou Vienna with LU

WINNER of
  • Masé Studio Post Production Award

THE FLOWERING OF A CHIMERA by Simon Maria Kubiena
produced by Chimera Film

WINNER of
  • Alphapanda Market Breakout Award
  • Midpoint Consulting Award
 
On top of that, Simon Maria Kubiena was invited to the Locarno Filmmakers Academy.