37th Locarno International Film Festival

10.08.1984 to 19.08.1984
Locarno

Awards

Directed by:
1983

This film describes in a life of suffering the forces of oppression present in a restrictive education, an alienating religion and distorted family relations. In spite of this acknowledgment, this film shows the liberating power offered by love and hope.

1983

Tiznao is the sensitive portrait of a community that will be destroyed in the name of progress. We appreciate the originality of the perspective of the two directors on this small Venezuelan village and we want to emphasize the importance of the universal questions that they ask us.

Directed by:
1984

The whole of this production, by the quality of its images, gives us a delicately framed picture of the evolution of human relations and of a friendship woven among exiles lost in the American immensity.