Experimental feature Dream of Another Summer has picked up Locarno Pro’s Antaviana Films First Look Award, the biggest prize handed out by the festival’s industry section.
The award comes with post-production services up to €50,000. The feature is helmed by Barcelona-born, Beirut-based filmmaker Irene Bartolomé.
Producers on the project are Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Bartolomé (I.B. Films), and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions). Discussing their choice, the Locarno Pro jury — comprised of Beatrice Fiorentino (Artistic Director, Venice’s International Film Critics’ Week), Kerem Ayan (Director, Istanbul Film Festival), and Mercedes Martínez-Abarca (Programmer, International Film Festival Rotterdam) — said the film is “a poetic and rigorous project that elaborates on collective trauma by rewriting the topography of a city wounded many times by history.” The jury added: “In its dual public and private dimensions, it restores the complexity of a territory marked by the past and the drive for modernity.” Elsewhere, The Music Library &SFX/Acorde Award worth € 45,000 in music supervision services went to Río abajo, un tigre directed by Víctor Diago and produced by Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Films), which also nabbed the award by Laserfilm cine y vídeo, worth € 5,000.
The second annual Heritage Online Restoration Contest was won by Liliana Cavani’s I Cannibali (The Cannibals, 1969). The film, represented by Minerva Pictures, will receive a full restoration by German-based film lab Cinegrell and will be shown at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.
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