38th Locarno International Film Festival

08.08.1985 to 18.08.1985
Locarno

Awards

Alpine Fire
Directed by:
1985

This film approaches a marginal group with nicety and reserve, showing with rigour the deadly isolation and mental aberrations which out-moded traditions lead to when they are accepted without thought.

Yellow Earth
Directed by:
1984

This film receives a Commendation because it depicts, in eloquent pictures, the search for the personal development of a young woman who was a prisoner of the traditions of rural society.

A Summer at Grandpa's
Directed by:
1984

This film receives a Commendation because it poses basic questions on the mysteries of daily life through the eyes of a child.