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Locarno
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The festival, famous for its open air screenings on the Piazza Grande, presented 17 entries in the international competition. The main award of the festival, the Golden Leopard, won "Mula sa kung ano ang noon" (From What Is Before) by Lav Diaz from the Philippines, one of the most important film authors of today. The Ecumenical Jury awarded its prize to "Durak" (The Fool), directed by Yuri Bykov from Russia, which also received a Leopard for the best actor, Artem Bystrov, and the Award of the Jury of the Youth.

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Jury

The church film jury in Locarno is the oldest ecumenical festival jury, established in 1973. It awards a prize endowed with 20.000 CHF assigned for the distribution of the film in Switzerland. The prize money is donated by the Evangelical Reformed Churches and the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland.

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