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The results are in and the two heavy favorites, Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa, have both received major awards.

Concorso internazionale

Golden Leopard

From What is Before (Lav Diaz, Philippines)

Special Jury Prize

Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry, USA)

Best Director

Pedro Costa for Horse Money (Portugal)

Best Actor

Artem Bystrov for The Fool (Yury Bykov, Russia)

Special Mention

Ventos de Agosto (Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil)

Concorso Cineasti del presente

Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio Nescens

Navajazo (Ricardo Silva, Mexico)

Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente

Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia/France/Argentina/Germany)

Premio per il miglior regista emergente

The Creation of Meaning (Simone Rapisarda Casanova, Canada/Italy)

Special Mention

Un jeune poete (Damien Manivel, France)

Opera Prima

Pardo per la migliore opera prima

Songs From the North (Soon-mi Yoo, USA/South Korea/Portugal)

Special Mention

Parole De Kamizake (Sawada Masa, France)

Pardi di...

Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.Scroll down for full list of winners

The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.

On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.

“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.

“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...