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Berta scoops Ticino Film Prize

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At the Locarno Film Festival, the first Ticino Film Prize was awarded on August 11 to Swiss DoP Renato Berta. This prize, worth €20,000, honours the work of Ticino-born artists who have distinguished themselves in the world of cinema.

Born in Bellinzona in 1945 and resident in France since the 1980s, Berta has over 100 films to his name. He began his career at the end of the 1960s with the directors of the New Swiss Cinema (Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta...) and remained a particularly loyal collaborator of the late Daniel Schmid.

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In 1970, he worked with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet on Othon. This marked the beginning of another long collaboration, which continues today (Straub’s Artemis’ Knee, 2008).

Berta has lensed numerous films by Alain Resnais (including Not on the Lips, 2003), Amos Gitai (Alila, 2003), Robert Guédiguian (The Last Mitterrand, 2005) and Manoel de Oliveira (Magic Mirror, 2005). He has also worked with many other directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Patrice Chéreau, Eric Rohmer, André Téchiné and Claude Chabrol.

In homage to Berta, the Locarno Film Festival presented Schmid’s debut feature Tonight or Never (1972) on August 12.

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