Best Performance Award (Locarno International Film Festival)

The Pardo for Best Performance (English: Leopard for Best Performance; Italian: Pardo per la migliore interpretazione)^[1] is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It was first awarded in 2023. In 2022, the Locarno Film Festival announced that the two acting categories would be retired and replaced with one gender neutral category, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into two Pardo Awards for the Best Performances category.^[2]

Pardo for Best Performance
2025 recipients: Mikhail Senkov and Marya Imbro
Awarded for	Two best performances by both actresses and actors
Country	Switzerland
Presented by	Locarno International Film Festival
First award	2023
Currently held by	Mikhail Senkov and Marya Imbro for White Snail, Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselčić for God Will Not Help

Winners

Year	Performer	Film	Ref
2023	Dimitra Vlagopoulou	Animal	[3][4]
	Renée Soutendijk	Sweet Dreams
2024	Kim Min-hee	By the Stream	[5][6]
	Gelminė Glemžaitė	Drowning Dry
	Agnė Kaktaitė
	Giedrius Kiela
	Paulius Markevičius
2025	Marya Imbro	White Snail
	Mikhail Senkov
	Manuela Martelli	God Will Not Help
	Ana Marija Veselčić