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Locarno: ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers' & ‘Hair, Paper, Water…' Take Top Prizes
Tabi to Hibi, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake, has won the Pardo d'Oro, the Locarno Film Festival's main competition award. Miyake is the fourth Japanese winner of the top prize in the festival's history after Masahiro Kobayashi's The Rebirth (Ai no yokan) in 2007, Akio Jissoji's This Transient Life (Mujō), which was one of four films to share the prize in 1970, and Teinosuke Kinugasa's classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) in 1954. More from Deadline International Insider: Paramount's Week One; Cillian On 'Steve'; Channel 4 Chuckles Truong Minh Quy And Nicolas Graux On The Story Behind Their Locarno Title 'Hair, Paper, Water...' & How Technological Shifts Are Affecting Filmmaking: "The Language Of Cinema Has Changed" Locarno Open Doors: Nigerian, Zimbabwean & Ivorian Projects Among Winners The festival's awards were announced this afternoon. Tabi to Hibi is based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge. The film was produced by Masayoshi Johnai. The official synopsis reads: In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo. Their conversations rarely connect, yet they set off on an unexpected adventure. In Locarno's parallel competition, Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Hair, Paper, Water…, a documentary co-directed by Truong Minh Quy and Nicolas Graux, won the top prize. Shot over three years on a vintage Bolex camera, the film is a rich portrait of an elderly, unnamed woman who, born in a cave more than 60 years ago, now lives in a village caring for her children and grandchildren. The film captures her daily life and the transmission of her fragile native language, Rục, to the younger generations, as she dreams of her deceased mother calling her home to her mountain cave. Hair, Paper, Water… was produced by Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff of Petit Chaos, the company behind Payal Kapadia's groundbreaking feature debut All We Imagine As Light, alongside Julie Freres. Italian-based sales company Lights On is handling the project. Elsewhere, White Snail by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, which competed in the main Competition, won the Special Jury Prize, and Abbas Fahdel won Best Director for Tales Of The Wounded Landed. Scroll down for the full list of this year's winners in Locarno. Discussing the crop of winning titles, Locarno head Giona A. Nazzaro described this year's festival as an event that celebrated 'the enduring and gentle power of cinema and its manifold ways of bringing communities together to share the wonderful gifts of peace.' 'We are grateful to all the directors who trusted the festival with their works. It allowed us to create a forward-looking edition, with its gaze firmly set in the future,' said in a statement. 'We are certain these works will stand the test of time and become beacons of hope for young talents that are just starting to dream the films they want to make tomorrow. A festival is like building a better tomorrow. One film at the time'. Full winners list: Concorso Internazionale Pardo d'Oro – Grand Prize of the Festival and City of Locarno to () by Sho Miyake, Japan Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and Losone to by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, Austria/Germany Pardo for Best Direction – City and Region of Locarno to Abbas Fahdel for , Lebanon Pardo for Best Performance to Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselčić for () by Hana Jušić, Croatia/Italy/Romania/Greece/France/Slovenia Pardo for Best Performance to Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov for by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, Austria/Germany Special Mention by Alexandre Koberidze, Germany/Georgia Concorso Cineasti del Presente Pardo d'Oro – Concorso Cineasti del Presente to () by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium/France/Vietnam Best Emerging Director Award – City and Region of Locarno to Cecilia Kang for , Argentina/France Special Jury Prize CINÉ+ to () by Margherita Spampinato, Italy Pardo for Best Performance to Aurora Quattrocchi for () by Margherita Spampinato, Italy Pardo for Best Performance to Levan Gelbakhiani for by Jacqueline Zünd, Switzerland/Italy Pardi di Domani Concorso Corti d'Autore Pardino d'Oro WePresent by WeTransfer for the Best Auteur Short Film to by Neo Sora, Japan/China Concorso Internazionale Pardino d'Oro Arts3 Foundation for the Best International Short Film to by Altay Ulan Yang, USA Pardino d'Argento Arts3 Foundation for the International Competition to by Mohamed Mesbah, France Pardi di Domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering to by Aria Sánchez and Marina Meira, Cuba/Spain/Brazil Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award to by Angel WU, Taiwan Concorso Nazionale Pardino d'Oro SRG SSR for the Best Swiss Short Film to () by Felipe Casanova, Belgium/Brazil/Switzerland Pardino d'Argento SRG SSR for the National Competition to by Francesco Poloni, Switzerland Best Swiss Newcomer Award to by Camille Surdez, Switzerland Locarno Film Festival Short Film Candidate – European Film Awards () by Felipe Casanova, Belgium/Brazil/Switzerland First Feature Swatch First Feature Award to by Sophy Romvari, Canada/Hungary Pardo Verde Pardo Verde to by Ben Rivers, United Kingdom/France/Canada Special Mentions () by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium/France/Vietnam () by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, France/Mongolia Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Everything We Know About Prime Video's 'Legally Blonde' Prequel Series 'Elle' Solve the daily Crossword
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Sho Miyake's Tabi to Hibi Wins Top Prize at Locarno Film Festival
Paris, Aug. 16 (Jiji Press)--Japanese film director Sho Miyake's "Tabi to Hibi" (Two Seasons, Two Strangers) has won the top prize in the international competition division at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on Saturday. Miyake, 41, was handed the Pardo d'Oro, or Golden Leopard, prize at the award ceremony held in Locarno, southern Switzerland, on Saturday. This is the first Japanese movie to receive the award since 2007, when "Ai no Yokan" (The Rebirth), directed by Masahito Kobayashi, was given the prize. Tabi to Hibi depicts a story in which a playwright who gets stuck takes a fresh look at her life through an encounter during a trip. South Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung plays the role of the playwright. Japanese actor Shinichi Tsutsumi and Japanese actress Yumi Kawai also perform in the movie. The movie will hit the screen in Japan in November. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Japan Today
3 days ago
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- Japan Today
Golden Leopard winner
Golden Leopard winner Sho Miyake, film director from Japan, poses with the "Pardo d'Oro - Grand Prize of the Festival and City of Locarno" of the "Concorso internazionale" category for the movie "Tabi to Hibi" (Two Seasons, Two Strangers) during a photocall at the 78th Locarno International Film Festival, in Locarno, Switzerland, on Saturday. © AP
