Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio won the Gold Hugo for International Feature Competition at the 60th Chicago International Film Festival. Set in the final days of WWII, the period drama chronicles a harrowing year in the life of three sisters, the daughters of a schoolteacher in a remote mountain village.
In the New Directors Competition, the jury awarded the Gold Hugo to Mo Harawe from The Village Next to Paradise. In Harawe’s feature debut, the first Somali feature ever selected for Cannes, the film follows a newly formed family, each with their own modest dreams for the future. The elder Mamargade seeks employment, his sister Araweelo aspires to own a small shop, and the youngest, Cigaal, imagines a field made of sweets and hopes to attend school.
In the International Documentary Competition, Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller received the Gold Hugo; Thesis on a Domestication by Javier Van de Couter received the Gold Q-Hugo in the OutLook Competition.; and Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s A Photographic Memory was honored with the Chicago Award.
60th Chicago International Film Festival Award Winners
International Feature Film Competition
Gold Hugo: Best Film
Vermiglio
Dir. Maura Delpero
Silver Hugo: Jury Prize
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
Silver Hugo: Best Director
Miguel Gomes
Grand Tour
Silver Hugo: Best Male Performance
Benjamin Voisin
The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le feu)
Dir. Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin
Silver Hugo: Best Female Performance
Elín Hall
When the Light Breaks
Ljósbrot Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson
Silver Hugo: Best Screenplay
Mohammad Rasoulof
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Silver Hugo: Best Editing
Telmo Churro & Pedro Filipe Marques
Grand Tour
Dir. Miguel Gomes
Special Mention
The Female Ensemble of
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Dir. Rungano Nyoni
New Directors Competition
Gold Hugo
The Village Next to Paradise
Dir. Mo Harawe
Silver Hugo
My Favourite Cake
Keyke Mahboobe Man
Dir. Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeh
Roger Ebert Award
Hanami
Dir. Denise Fernandes
International Documentary Competition
Gold Hugo
Mistress Dispeller
Dir. Elizabeth Lo
Silver Hugo
My Stolen Planet
Dir. Farahnaz Sharifi
Out-Look Competition
Gold Q-Hugo
Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación)
Dir. Javier Van de Couter
Silver Q-Hugo
Four Mothers
Dir. Darren Thornton
City & State Competition
Chicago Award
A Photographic Memory
Dir. Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Honorable Mention
Saving Superman
Dir. Adam Oppenheim
Animated Short Film Competition
Gold Hugo
Butterfly Kiss
Dir. Zohar Dvir
Silver Hugo
Wander to Wonder
Dir. Nina Gantz
Documentary Short Film Competition
Gold Hugo
Black Shadow (Negra sombra)
Dir. María Salafranca
Silver Hugo
Perfectly a Strangeness
Dir. Alison McAlpine
Live Action Short Film Competition
Gold Hugo
Vox Humana
Dir. Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Silver Hugo
Passarinho
Dir. Natalia García Agraz
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