Florin Şerban’s anti-Roma drama wins Locarno’s Golden Leopard
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Florin Şerban’s anti-Roma racism drama “You Don’t Belong Here” has won the Golden Leopard, Locarno Film Festival’s top International Competition prize. The award highlights the film’s social subject matter and places Şerban among the festival’s major winners, while young star Teodor Butănescu received a special performance mention.
Hong Sangsoo won best director for “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes”, with Kim Minhee sharing the gender-neutral best performance prize with Monica Bellucci for “Ketticè”. Elsewhere, Argentine debut “The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer” won the Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard and the first feature award, while “The Riverbank” took the International Competition’s Special Jury Prize.
- Şerban’s anti-Roma drama won Locarno’s top prize.
- Butănescu received a special acting mention.
- Bellucci and Kim shared the best performance award.
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The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film event in Switzerland known for showing international independent and arthouse cinema. Its Golden Leopard is the festival’s highest prize for films in the main International Competition.
“You Don’t Belong Here” is a drama by Romanian director Florin Şerban about prejudice against Roma people. Roma are an ethnic minority found across Europe who have long faced discrimination, exclusion and harmful stereotypes in many countries.
Film festivals can help smaller or independently made films reach wider audiences, distributors and other awards bodies. Performance prizes and special mentions recognise individual actors as well as the films themselves.
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- The Hollywood Reporter — Locarno Film Festival Awards Go to ‘You Don’t Belong Here,’ Hong Sangsoo, Monica Bellucci
- Deadline — Locarno Film Festival Winners: Florin Șerban, Monica Bellucci & Hong Sangsoo Among Victors
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Originally published by Variety as “Florin Şerban’s ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ Wins Golden Leopard at Locarno, as Monica Bellucci and Kim Minhee Take Acting Awards”.