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132 | Dietmar Adler and Charles Martig www.jrfm.eu 2018, 4/2, 7–21 the Protestant Reformed tradition, has aspired to make such a film. He has pro- vided a surprising and captivating drama which strikes like a thunderbolt and lingers for a long time. This Passion story of a pastor is surprising at an interna- tional festival – and staggeringly powerful. PLEDGING GENDER PARITY President Marco Solari and Vice-President Carla Speziali of the Locarno Film Festi- val signed a pledge to ensure gender parity in programming. The Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network (SWAN) with its director Ursula Meier initiated the pledge. “We are thrilled about this first step towards equality and diversity in festivals. Just as with budget and funding, women are entitled to an equal share of the spotlight and the screens. Visibility of our films is essential”, said Gabriel Baur, Laura Kaehr, and Stéphane Mitchell, SWAN’s co-presidents, in a statement.2 Lo- carno was the first major film festival to follow the initiative taken by the Cannes Film Festival. Alina Birzache and Anna Piazza, members of the Ecumenical Jury of Signis and Interfilm, were present at the signing event to support this initiative. BIBLIOGRAPHY Statements of the Ecumenical Jury, Interfilm, 71st Locarno Festival, https://www.inter-film.org/festi- vals/festival-del-film-locarno/71st-locarno-festival [accessed 14 August 2018]. Keslassy, Elsa / Hopewell, John, Locarno Film Festival Signs Pledge for Gender Parity in Program- ming, Variety, 5 August 2018, https://variety.com/2018/film/global/locarno-festival-gender- equality-programming-cannes-1202895531/ [accessed 14 August 2018]. FILMOGRAPHY #Female Pleasure (Barbara Miller, CH 2018). A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, SG/FR/NL 2018). Diane (Kent Jones, US 2018). First Reformed (Paul Schrader, US 2017). Journal d’un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bresson, FR 1951). M (Yolande Zauberman, FR 2018). Menocchio (Alberto Fasulo, IT/RO 2018). Nattvardsgästerna (Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman, SE 1962. Sibel (Guillaume Giovanetti / Çağla Zencirci, FR/DE/TR 2018). Wintermärchen (A Winter’s Tale, Jan Bonny, DE 2018). Yara (Abbas Fahdel, LB/IQ/FR 2018). 2 Quoted in Keslassy/Hopewell 2018.