Vermiglio directed by Maura Delpero
Vermiglio (Fabrizio De Blasio)

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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