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Out of 10 filmmakers selected from around the world who came to Locarno to present themselves and their projects to an international jury, three were selected to continue their journey in the 2024 Locarno Residency. They are Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi (South Africa/Germany) – also the recipient of the Dopodomani Award (CHF 3,000) – with her project All Is in Order, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Indonesia) with his Nest for the Wind, and Enea Zucchetti (Switzerland) – the Ticino-based filmmaker whose L'azzuro del cielo played in the Pardi di Domani - Concorso Nazionale 2019 – with his project I sogni degli animali (After Lions).
Selected by an international jury consisting of Tizian Büchi, Julia Cöllen, and Virginie Devesa, the 2024 trio of participants will now move on to the second phase of the Residency, a one-year mentoring course consisting of online and in-person sessions. The first in-person session, organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in Milano, will take place during the winter, in Venice at Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, the second in the spring. Full details on the two sessions will be announced in due course. The Locarno Residency will cover accommodation and travel expenses and a contribution towards meals.
Even though they will not advance to the next phase, the contribution of the other seven participants from the first part of the Residency should be recognized again: Blanca Camell Galí (Spain/France), Aylin Gökmen (Switzerland), Shadi Jamil Habib Allah (Palestine), Juliano Kunert (Dominican Republic), Viv Li (France/China/United Kingdom), Carlos Pereira (Germany/Portugal), and Gianna Felicita Scholten (Switzerland). You can read the bios of all the participants here.
Meanwhile, the Grand Prize of the previous Locarno Residency (CHF 5,000), the culmination of a year-long mentoring program involving three directors, was finally awarded to the French Lausanne-based filmmaker Coline Confort with her project Josie Goes to War. The other participants in the 2023 Residency were Eliza Scanlen and Ana Elena Tejera.
