At this year's Locarno
Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of
major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17
world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the
Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the
festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.
More TIFF announcements, more
major additions, so many
world premieres at this year's film
festival including the Midnight Madness line - up and more potential award winners to the schedule covering the entire spectrum from elder Hollywood statesman to dirty tramps and roughnecks.