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Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin Șerban

Monica Bellucci and Kim Minhee shared the Best Performance prize at the 79th edition in Switzerland

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79th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland © ANSA/EPA

What this story says

  • Florin Șerban’s 'You Don’t Belong Here' won the Golden Leopard at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, including a 75,000-franc cash award.
  • Monica Bellucci and Kim Minhee each received a Best Performance award for their roles in separate films.
  • The jury, chaired by Fabrice Du Welz, also awarded Hong Sangsoo Best Director for 'Nowhere to Lay My Eyes'.
  • No right-rated outlet covered the festival’s awards this year, according to the reports below.

Who covered it

Left 70%(7)Centre 30%(3)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 10 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 5 of the 15 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

68/100

Craft

77/100

Hype

15/100

15 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 10 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

The 79th Locarno Film Festival concluded on 15 August 2026 with the Golden Leopard (Pardo d’Oro) awarded to Romanian director Florin Șerban for his film 'You Don’t Belong Here'. The prize included a cash award of 75,000 Swiss francs. The film, which explores the relationship between a father and son, was praised by the jury for its screenplay, vision and command of cinematic language.

The festival’s international competition jury, led by Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz, also awarded the Special Jury Prize to 'The Riverbank' by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho. Hong Sangsoo won Best Director for his film 'Nowhere to Lay My Eyes'. The Best Performance awards were shared by Monica Bellucci for her role in 'Ketticè' and Kim Minhee for her performance in 'Nowhere to Lay My Eyes'.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated outlets below carried any report on the Locarno Film Festival’s awards. The omission is a finding: the story did not appear in any right-rated digest or full report.

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Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 7 times, most recently on 15 Aug 2026, 16:30, and will add the sides that appear.

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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

7 rated outlets

  • The six left-rated digests and two full reports led on the social themes in Șerban’s film. Variety described 'You Don’t Belong Here' as 'a study of anti-Roma racism' and noted a special mention for its young star, Teodor Butănescu. Le Temps highlighted the film’s focus on a country rarely at the centre of cinematic attention. Il Fatto Quotidiano called it an 'intimate story' that brought marginalised perspectives to the festival.
  • Variety and Deadline both quoted the jury’s citation for Șerban’s film, which praised its 'singularity of vision' and 'extraordinary mastery of cinematic language'. The reports also emphasised the diversity of the winners: Variety noted that Kim Minhee’s award was gender-neutral, while Le Temps described the festival’s selection as lacking established names except for Hong Sangsoo.

Centre

3 rated outlets

  • The two centre-rated reports focused on the festival’s atmosphere and the technical merits of the winning films. ANSA, in its full report, led with the jury’s praise for Șerban’s 'force of screenplay' and 'mastery of cinematic language'. It also quoted festival director Giona A. Nazzaro, who called the awards 'vital and contemporary', reflecting the industry’s transformations.
  • Corriere Della Sera’s digest described the festival as drawing a 'large and enthusiastic audience' over eleven days. Neither centre-rated report mentioned the social or political themes in 'You Don’t Belong Here' that the left-rated reports highlighted.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Read it at the source

15 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

7

Centre

3

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

5

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin…?
Of the 10 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 70% are rated left, 30% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 15. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 10 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin… biased?
Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin Șerban is one event reported by 15 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Locarno Film Festival awards Golden Leopard to Romanian director Florin…?
15 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What film won the Golden Leopard at the 79th Locarno Film Festival?
Florin Șerban’s 'You Don’t Belong Here' won the Golden Leopard at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The jury awarded it for its screenplay, vision and cinematic language, and it included a 75,000-franc cash prize.
Who won the Best Performance awards at Locarno this year?
Monica Bellucci and Kim Minhee shared the Best Performance award at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. Bellucci won for her role in 'Ketticè', while Minhee was recognised for her performance in 'Nowhere to Lay My Eyes'.
Which outlets covered the Locarno Film Festival awards?
Six left-rated outlets and two centre-rated outlets covered the awards, including Variety, ANSA and Le Temps. No right-rated outlet reported on the festival’s results this year.

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