Giacomo wins Locarno's Cineasti del Presente

Parallel prizes for De Serio brothers in the Main Competition

Giacomo wins Locarno's Cineasti del Presente

Sette opere di misericordia by Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio, playing in the International Competition, gained theJunior jury's Second Prize and the Don Quijote Award by IFSS.
The Jury for the Competition Cineasti del presente has given the first prize, Pardo d'oro - George Foundation Award, granting 30.000 CHF, devoted to first and second films to L'estate di Giacomo by Alessandro Comodin.
The Jury was presided over by German director Christoph Hochhäusler (This Very Moment, 2003; I Am Guilty, 2005; The City Below, 2010), joined by Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino (The Gift, 2003; The Four Times, 2010), Filipino director Raya Martin (Autohystoria, 2007; Independencia, 2009), Chinese producer Zhu Rikun (Karamay di Xu Xin, 2010) and the Greek producer and director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009; Attenberg, 2010).