29th Locarno International Film Festival

05.08.1976 to 15.08.1976
Locarno

Awards

Harvest: 3000 Years
Directed by:
1975

This film denounces the oppression of poor nations by rich countries and witnesses the difficulties inherent to an authentic liberation. Deeply rooted in the life and in the culture of his country, the director Haile Gerima has been able to translate, in an exemplary narrative style, the distresses and hopes of these men who have known unchanging life conditions since three millennium. Its call has a prophetic accent.

The Coming of Age
Directed by:
1976

Shahid-Saless shares, with a sharp style and convincing way, the loneliness and progressive alienation of a boy who has lost his father.

The Ambassadors
Directed by:
1976

The director induces a participation to some vital problems concerning immigrants. Through a succession of events, at times tragic, depicted with efficient means, he insists on the importance of heartily immigrants welcoming through interpersonal comprehension. He especially stresses the necessity of transforming socio-economic structures.

Directed by:
1976

This first film, built around the Passion of Christ, opposes the courage of a non-conformist and pacifist citizen with the hypocrite, suspicious and aggressive attitudes of a society that prides itself to be well-disposed.