Rodrigo Garcia, the son of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was appreciated as an extraordinary director by the jury of Switzerland's Locarno film festival, who has warded the Golden Leopard to his movie, Nine Lives, starring Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Sissy Spacek.
Garcia's movie tells a story of key turning points in the lives of nine different women, in separate but loosely connected vignettes.
"Nine Lives" is a small budget movie, which was filmed in just 18 days.
Jury head and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro said: "Rodrigo Garcia's direction was extraordinary, he really did what a director should be doing, directing".
Garcia thanked the jury and his producers, the director of photography and finally his cast, "without whom this film couldn't exist". "Nine Lives" will hit theatres on October 14th, 2005.
Glenn Close shared an ensemble award for best female performance, alongside Robin Wright Penn, Emily Mortimer and Molly Parker.
The 10-day Locarno film festival in Switzerland ended on Saturday, with filmmaker Frederic Maire named as its new director, replacing Irene Bignardi, who received a Swiss crystal to commemorate her time at Locarno.
The Silver Leopards for the second best film went to Fratricide, a co-production between Germany, Luxembourg and France, Germany's "3 degrees colder" and Iran's "We are all fine", while "Un Couple Parfait", a Japanese and French co-production, received the Special Jury Prize.
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