The Locarno Film Festival, a longtime beacon of the international indie filmmaking community, is being shaken up a bit by new artistic director Lili Hinstin, who is the Swiss event’s second female …
The Locarno Film Festival, a longtime beacon of the international indie filmmaking community, is being shaken up a bit by new artistic director, who is the Swiss event’s second female chief since its founding in 1946 and one of the few women to head an A-list fest around the world. The event’s 72nd edition kicks off Wednesday.
A 42-year-old Parisian, Hinstin took the reins from Italy’s Carlo Chatrian, who went on to become Berlinale co-director. Hinstin spoke toabout putting her stamp on the fest and addressing the issue of achieving a better gender balance without quotas.My starting point is interpreting the history of the event and the space I’m working in. Locarno has always been among the festivals I’ve admired the most….It’s a cinematic territory I like a lot.
I think it’s safe to say you are not in favor of a quota. But have you looked at the lineup numerically in terms of gender ratio? I’m quite proud of our numbers because we have six female directors out of 14 films in the Piazza Grande, six out of 17 [female] directors in the international competition. And we have 50-50 in Filmmakers of the Present section. In total, out of roughly 64 films, 26 are by female directors…which means…that 40.6% of the overall feature films in 2019 selection are females. Now we need to compare these figures with the number of submitted films….
First of all she’s an amazing director – a great, great director. I really wanted to have a female jury president. It’s the first time in the history of the festival, and this is really worth mentioning. For me an artist is not an ideologue. For me an artist is a free person, and she’s been totally free. And I think a female director who was able to depict the relationship between women and sex the way she has is feminist in itself.
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