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Cannes 2008 - Awards/France - Cantet's The Class crowned Palme d'Or
2008-05-27 10:37:50Making his official competition debut at the Cannes Film Festival, French director Laurent Cantet (see interview) struck gold by winning the Palme d'Or for The Class (see news). The last French director to win the coveted prize was Maurice Pialat in 1987, for Under Satan's Sun. The Class is Cantet's fourth feature. The 47-year-old director won the New Directors Award at San Sebastian...
People - Switzerland - Alain Tanner crowned Doctor Honoris Causa
2008-06-18 05:00:06For the first time in Switzerland, a film director has been awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa. This distinction celebrates the work of Alain Tanner (79), who made his last film in 2004, symbolically entitled Paul s'en va (“Paul Is Leaving”). The director of Charles, Dead or Alive, The Salamander, In the White City and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year...
Festivals - Italy - Taormina crowns Mediterranean talent
2008-06-23 05:00:07The 54th Taormina Film Fest (June 15-22) awards ceremony ended with a concert that paid tribute to the music of film composers Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani and Nino Rota; and featured appearances by Maria Grazia Cucinotta and comedian-actor Alessandro Siani. From a competition section that featured only Mediterranean films, the Golden Tauro winner was Eye of the Sun (Egypt) by Ibrahim...
Venice 2008 - Horizons/Awards - Gianfranco Rosi's Below Sea Level crowned top doc
2008-09-07 05:00:06Gianfranco Rosi's Below Sea Level won the Horizons Doc prize for Best Documentary. The Italian director's film - whose screening received a standing ovation - recounts the life stories of a small community who live in the New Mexico desert, without water, electricity, police or government. Rosi followed them for four years in order to discover how they ended up on the margins of society.
Awards - Netherlands - Love Is All crowned Best Dutch Film
2008-10-07 05:00:06The romantic comedy and box-office hit Love is All was crowned Best Film at the 2008 Golden Calves ceremony. The Dutch national film prizes were awarded on Friday, the last day of the Netherlands Film Festival. The film, which attracted over a million visitors during its late autumn release last year for distributor A-Film, also won the Best Director Golden Calf for Joram Lürsen. Though...
Festivals - France - In the Electric Mist crowned at Beaune
2009-04-06 09:00:09French director Bertrand Tavernier scooped top honours at the 1st Beaune International Thriller Film Festival (see news), which closed on Sunday. The competition jury - presided by Claude Chabrol and composed of actors Elsa Zylberstein, François Berléand, Amira Casar and Anne Consigny, novelist François Guérif and directors Noémie Lvovsky and Benoît Cohen - awarded the Grand Prize to In...
Awards - Netherlands - Nothing Personal crowned best Dutch film
2009-10-05 09:00:06The Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht came to a close on Friday night with the awards ceremony of the Golden Calves, the Dutch national film prizes. The big winner of the night was Dutch/Irish co-production Nothing Personal, which already won several awards at Locarno in August. In Utrecht, Polish-born Urszula Antoniak's debut feature went home with the gold in the Best Film, Best...
Festivals - France - Dinard crowns Murphy's White Lightnin'
2009-10-12 09:00:02At the 20th Dinard British Film Festival (see news), the Golden Hitchcock for Best Film went to Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin'. Unveiled at Sundance and lauded in the Berlinale Panorama 2009 (see review), this debut feature was produced by Film and Music Entertainment with backing from the UK Film Council. It traces the misfortunes of a "dancing outlaw" in the Appalachian Mountains in...
Festivals - Poland - Lourdes crowned Best Film at Warsaw
2009-10-20 09:00:04At the 25th Warsaw Film Festival on Saturday, the Grand Prize for Best Film was awarded to Austrian director Jessica Hausner's Lourdes. The feature, unveiled in competition at Venice (see review), explores the subject of contemporary faith and religiosity by focusing on the famous French shrine. President of the Warsaw jury, composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, commented: "Hausner's film shows an...
Festivals - Spain - Seville crowns Lourdes
2009-11-18 09:00:02The Seville Film Festival, one of the leading annual events for European cinema, closed with the triumph of Jessica Hausner's Austrian/French/German co-production Lourdes, which won the Golden Giraldillo for Best Film (worth €50,000). This was the perfect ending to 14 days of screenings, presentations, conferences and tributes, held in the unrivalled setting of the Andalucian...
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