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Concorso internazionale

Heading the Concorso internazionale Jury will be Portuguese producer Paulo Branco (Francisca by Manoel de Oliveira, 1981; In the White City by Alain Tanner, 1983; Come and Go by João César Monteiro, 2003; Mysteries of Lisbon by Raoul Ruiz, 2010), who was the winner of the very first Raimondo Rezzonico Prize in 2002. Also serving on the jury to assess the twenty or so full-length features in competition will be French actor and director Louis Garrel (The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003; Regular Lovers by Philippe Garrel, 2005; Les Chansons d’Amour by Christophe Honoré, 2007), German actress Sandra Hüller (Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006; Brownian Movement by Nanouk Leopold, 2010), Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli (Im Nordwind, 2004; Late Bloomers, 2006; The Murder Farm, 2009) and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca (The Best of Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003; The Caiman by Nanni Moretti, 2006; Ultimatum by Alain Tasma, 2009).

Paulo Branco

President of the jury - Producer, Portugal

Paulo Branco

Paulo Branco is the producer of 250 films by directors such as Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, Alain Tanner, Pedro Costa, Jerzy Skolimowski, Olivier Assayas, Philippe Garrel, Wim Wenders, and André Téchiné, just to name a few. In 2010 he produced the multi-award-winning Mysteries of Lisbon directed by Raúl Ruiz and he is currently producing Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg. For the past 30 years, Branco has shown 52 of his films in Cannes and 36 in Venice and has received numerous awards and tributes, including: Viennale – Tribute; Strasbourg – Award for Best European Producer "Les grandes carrières européennes"; Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Republic. In 2002, he received the Premio Raimondo Rezzonico – Best Independent Producer Award at Locarno.

Bettina Oberli

Filmmaker, Switzerland

Bettina Oberli
Born in 1972 in Interlaken, Bettina Oberli studied film at ZHdK in Zurich. Her graduation film Supernova won the Suissimage Prix de la relève. She subsequently worked in New York as an assistant set designer for Steve Buscemi on a Lou Reed music video, and for Hal Hartley on Henry Fool (1997). Her first feature film Im Nordwind (2004)was screened at numerous festivals and won many prizes. In 2006, Late Bloomers played for a whole year in Swiss cinemas and represented Switzerland at the Academy Awards. In 2008, Bettina Oberli directed the film adaptation of the novel Tannöd by A. M. Schenkel. She is currently working on a new feature, Lovely Louise.

Luca Guadagnino

Director, screenwriter and producer, Italy

Luca Guadagnino

Filmmaker and stage director, screenwriter and producer, Luca Guadagnino was born in Palermo in 1971. He graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with a thesis on Jonathan Demme. In 1999, he made his fi rst feature fi lm The Protagonists, a strange fi lm that defi ed categorization. The Protagonists was selected for Venice. Some years later he directed Mundo civilizado (2003), screened at Locarno. In 2004 he made Cuoco contadino, selected for the Cinema Digitale section at Venice. His following fi lm, Melissa P. (2005), was a hit, despite arousing controversy. In 2009 he received international acclaim for I Am Love. His most récent film, Inconscio italiano (2011), is screening at Locarno this year in the section Fuori concorso.

Luis Garrel

Actor and filmmaker, France

Luis Garrel
French actor and director Louis Garrel, born in 1983, was trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in Paris, graduating in 2004. Drawing attention for his performances in Rodolphe Marconi’s This Is My Body (2000) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003), he has remained loyal to his filmmaker father Philippe Garrel, playing the lead in the latter’s last three films, Regular Lovers (2004), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor, La Frontière de l’aube (2008), Un été brûlant (2011). He has also made six films with Christophe Honoré, from My Mother (2004) to The Beloved (2011). Garrel has also directed three shorts, My Friends (2008), Petit Tailleur (2010) and Idées suisses (2011) presented this year in the section Corti d’autore. He is about to start work on his first feature film.

Sandra Hüller

Actress, Germany

Sandra Hüller
Born in 1978 in Suhl, Sandra Hüller is an accomplished performer in both theatre and film. In 1996 she trained as an actress at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch (HFS) in Berlin. In 1999 she spent a year at the Jena Theatre, and then in Leipzig, before joining the Basel Theatre where she worked from 2002 to 2006. Her film debut as Michaela Klingler – a young woman who was exorcised in the 1970s – in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem (2006) won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. Recent credits include Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement (2010) and Jan Schomburg’s Above Us Only Sky (2011), both screened at Berlin in 2011.