HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM SCARY MOTHER, 2017 SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL[/caption]
The Georgia film Scary Mother directed by Ani Urushadze, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film at the 2017 Sarajevo Film Festival. In the film, Manana, a 50-year-old housewife, struggles with a dilemma – she has to choose between her family life and her passion for writing, which she has repressed for years. She decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing everything to it, both mentally and physically.
The award for Best Documentary went to City of the Sun, directed by Rati Oneli. City of the Sun portrays a few of the remaining inhabitants of the mining city of Chiatura, in western Georgia. Up to 50 percent of the world’s manganese, a vital metal across the globe, used to be mined here, but today, it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. Music teacher Zurab dismantles ramshackle concrete buildings by hand and sells the iron girders to make some money on the side. Archil still works in the mine, but his real passion is the local amateur theatre group. Despite being malnourished, two young female athletes train stoically for the next Olympic Games.
Actor and comedian John Cleese, best known as a member of the famous comedy team Monty Python’s Flying Circus, received the honorary lifetime achievement award. “I accept it not as a film person, but more as a comedian because I think at this time in world history, we’ve never needed comedians more,” Cleese said.
Scary Mother
Scary Mother
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2017 Sarajevo Film Festival Awards: SCARY MOTHER Wins Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film
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The Georgia film Scary Mother directed by Ani Urushadze, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film at the 2017 Sarajevo Film Festival. In the film, Manana, a 50-year-old housewife, struggles with a dilemma – she has to choose between her family life and her passion for writing, which she has repressed for years. She decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing everything to it, both mentally and physically.
The award for Best Documentary went to City of the Sun, directed by Rati Oneli. City of the Sun portrays a few of the remaining inhabitants of the mining city of Chiatura, in western Georgia. Up to 50 percent of the world’s manganese, a vital metal across the globe, used to be mined here, but today, it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. Music teacher Zurab dismantles ramshackle concrete buildings by hand and sells the iron girders to make some money on the side. Archil still works in the mine, but his real passion is the local amateur theatre group. Despite being malnourished, two young female athletes train stoically for the next Olympic Games.
Actor and comedian John Cleese, best known as a member of the famous comedy team Monty Python’s Flying Circus, received the honorary lifetime achievement award. “I accept it not as a film person, but more as a comedian because I think at this time in world history, we’ve never needed comedians more,” Cleese said.
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2017 Locarno Festival Awards: MRS. FANG by Wang Bing Wins Pardo d’oro
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The documentary Mrs. Fang directed by Wang Bing was today crowned the winner of the Pardo d’oro at the 2017 Locarno Festival. Also at the awards ceremony, the Prix Public UBS was awarded to The Big Sick, by Michael Showalter.
When asked, how did he feel about the award, Wang Bing responded, “I’ve been working on documentaries for over ten years but this is the first time I am receiving such a great prize. It is a great and deep honor for me to get this award for Mrs. Fang. I want to see it as a start of my future projects. A very good one! Locarno is the best platform to show art films, because here there is an audience, coming from all over the world, which is attentive to every single film that is screened.”
The 71st Locarno Festival will take place from August 1 to 11, 2018.
2017 Locarno Festival Awards
Concorso Internazionale
Pardo d’oro (Gran Premio del Festival) della Città di Locarno MRS. FANG by WANG Bing, France, China, Germany Premio Speciale Della Giuria (Special Jury Prize) AS BOAS MANEIRAS by Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra, Brazil, France Pardo per la Miglior Regia (Best Direction) F.J. OSSANG for 9 DOIGTS, France, Portugal Pardo per la Miglior Interpretazione Femminile (Best Actress) ISABELLE HUPPERT for MADAME HYDE by Serge Bozon, France, Belgium Pardo per la Miglior Interpretazione Maschile (Best Actor) ELLIOTT CROSSET HOVE for VINTERBRØDRE by Hlynur Pálmason, Denmark, IcelandConcorso Cineasti del presente
Pardo d’Oro Cineasti del Presente 3/4 (Three Quarters) by Ilian Metev, Bulgarien, Germany Premio Speciale della Giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del Presente (Special Jury Prize) MILLA by Valerie Massadian, France, Portugal Premio per il Miglior Regista Emergente – Città e Regione di Locarno (Prize for the Best Emerging Director) KIM DAE-HWAN for CHO-HAENG (The First Lap), South Korea Special Mention DISTANT CONSTELLATION by Shevaun Mizrahi, USA, Turkey, Netherlands VERÃO DANADO by Pedro Cabeleira, PortugalSigns of Life
Signs of Life Award ELECTRONIC-ART.FOUNDATION for Best Film COCOTE by Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Qatar Fundación Casa Wabi – Mantarraya Award DANE KOMLJEN for PHANTASIESÄTZE, Germany, Denmark Special Mention ERA UMA VEZ BRASÍLIA by Adirley Queirós, Brazil, PortugalFirst Feature
Swatch First Feature Award (Prize for Best First Feature) SASHISHI DEDA (Scary Mother) by Ana Urushadze, Georgia, Estland Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award METEORLAR (Meteors) by Gürcan Keltek, Netherlands,Turkey Special Mention DENE WOS GUET GEIT (Those Who Are Fine) by Cyril Schäublin, SwitzerlandPardi di domani
Concorso Internazionale Pardino d’Oro for the Best International Short Film – Premio SRG SSR ANTÓNIO E CATARINA by Cristina Hanes, Portugal Pardino d’Argento SRG SSR for the Concorso Internazionale SHMAMA by Miki Polonski, Israel Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianifica JEUNES HOMMES À LA FENÊTRE by Loukianos Moshonas, France Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award KAPITALISTIS by Pablo Muñoz Gomez, Belgium,France Special Mention ARMAGEDDON 2 by Corey Hughes, CubaConcorso Nazionale
Pardino d’Oro for the Best Swiss Short Film – Premio Swiss Life REWIND FORWARD by Justin Stoneham, Switzerland Pardino d’Argento Swiss Life for the Concorso Nazionale 59 SECONDES by Mauro Carraro, Switzerland Best Swiss Newcomer Award LES INTRANQUILLES by Magdalena Froger, Switzerland Variety Piazza Grande Award DREI ZINNEN by Jan Zabeil, Germany, Italy