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  • “Son of Saul” Wins Top Award at 2015 Zagreb Film Festival

    SON OF SAUL The 2015 Zagreb Film Festival Golden Pram Award went to the Hungarian film Son of Saul by Lászlo Nemes. Son Of Saul, the winner of Grand Prix at the Cannes, Film Festival is the directorial debut of Lászlo Nemes. October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of Sonderkommando – the Jewish prisoners’ unit isolated from the rest of the camp. They are in charge of taking other prisoners to gas chambers and burning corpses. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul finds the body of a boy and is convinced it is his son. Shaking off his lethargy, he decides to secretly arrange a real Jewish funeral for the boy. While other members of Sonderkommando are planning to rebel and escape, Saul takes upon himself the impossible mission of saving the boy’s body from the flames. To this end, he makes his way through the concentration camp in search of a rabi who would perform the ritual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwC9DsWyxQc The Golden Pram for Best Short Film went to the French film A Few Seconds by Nora El Hourch, and the Best Checkers Film is The Beast by Daina O. Pusić. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0k3EJYdF6U Special mentions were awarded in each of the categories, as well. The Best PLUS Film is the Dutch entry Prince, directed by Sam de Jong, and the HT Audience Award went to the French film The New Kid by Rudi Rosenberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXbuIcGInA Special mentions in the feature competition went to the Danish film A War (Krigen), directed by Tobias Lindholm and the Australian film Tanna, directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkE5ZrPzs0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMmpaj3K7dY

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  • 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival Award Winners; SPARROWS Wins Best Film

    Rúnar Rúnarsson's "Sparrows" Rúnar Rúnarsson’s “Sparrows” is the winner of the Golden Shell for Best Film at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival. “Sparrows” is a drama about Ari, 16, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. Here he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining surroundings, Ari has to step up and find his way. 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival Award-Winners Golden Shell for Best Film SPARROWS RÚNAR RÚNARSSON (ICELAND – DENMARK – CROATIA) Special Jury Prize EVOLUTION LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC (FRANCE – BELGIUM – SPAIN) Silver Shell for Best Director JOACHIM LAFOSSE LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS / THE WHITE KNIGHTS JOACHIM LAFOSSE (BELGIUM – FRANCE) Silver Shell for Best Actress YORDANKA ARIOSA EL REY DE LA HABANA (THE KING OF HAVANA) AGUSTÍ VILLARONGA (SPAIN – DOMINICAN REP.) Silver Shell for Best Actor (tie) RICARDO DARIN TRUMAN CESC GAY (SPAIN – ARGENTINA) (tie) JAVIER CÁMARA TRUMAN CESC GAY (SPAIN – ARGENTINA) Jury Prize for Best Cinematography MANU DACOSSE EVOLUTION LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC (FRANCE – BELGIUM – SPAIN) Jury Prize for Best Screenplay ARNAUD LARRIEU, JEAN-MARIE LARRIEU 21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE / 21 NIGHTS WITH PATTIE JEAN-MARIE LARRIEU, ARNAUD LARRIEU (FRANCE) Jury Special Mention EL APÓSTATA ( THE APOSTATE) FEDERICO VEIROJ (SPAIN – URUGUAY – FRANCE) Kutxabank-New Directors Award LE NOUVEAU / THE NEW KID RUDI ROSENBERG (FRANCE) SPECIAL MENTION TJUVHEDER / DRIFTERS PETER GRÖNLUND (SWEDEN) SPECIAL MENTION VIDA SEXUAL DE LAS PLANTAS (SEX LIFE OF PLANTS) SEBASTIÁN BRAHM (CHILE) Horizontes Award PAULINA SANTIAGO MITRE (ARGENTINA – BRAZIL – FRANCE) SPECIAL MENTION – LUIS SILVA DESDE ALLÁ (FROM AFAR) LORENZO VIGAS (VENEZUELA – MEXICO) SPECIAL MENTION TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA ( I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY) JULIO HERNÁNDEZ CORDÓN (MEXICO – GERMANY) Irizar Basque Film Award AMAMA (WHEN A TREE FALLS) ASIER ALTUNA IZA (SPAIN) SPECIAL MENTION – IRENE ESCOLAR UN OTOÑO SIN BERLÍN LARA IZAGIRRE Audience Award UMIMACHI DIARY / OUR LITTLE SISTER HIROKAZU KOREEDA (JAPAN) AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM SHAN HE GU REN / MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART JIA ZHANG-KE (CHINA – FRANCE – JAPAN) EZAE Youth Award PAULINA SANTIAGO MITRE (ARGENTINA – BRAZIL – FRANCE) International Film Students Meeting Awards FIRST PRIZE NUEVA VIDA (NEW LIFE) KIRO RUSSO (ARGENTINA – BOLIVIA) Universidad del Cine (Argentina) SECOND PRIZE EL ENEMIGO (THE ENEMY) ALDEMAR MATIAS (CUBA) Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) (Cuba) THIRD PRIZE WADA’ / PREDICTION KHALED MZHER (GERMANY) Deutsche Film – und Fernsehakademie Berlin (Germany) ORONA AWARD NUEVA VIDA (NEW LIFE) KIRO RUSSO (ARGENTINA – BOLIVIA) Universidad del Cine (Argentina) TORINO AWARD VOLANDO VOY (I’LL FLY HIGHER) ISABEL LAMBERTI (NETHERLANDS) Netherlands Film Academy (Netherlands) Tokyo Gohan Film Festival Award NOMA, MY PERFECT STORM PIERRE DESCHAMPS (UK – DENMARK) Films in Progress Awards ERA O HOTEL CAMBRIDGE / THE CAMBRIDGE SQUATTER ELIANE CAFFÉ (BRASIL – FRANCE) Films in Progress Industry Award Ibermedia TV Films in Progress Award Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. EGEDA Best Project Award LA OMISIÓN (THE OMISSION) SEBASTIÁN SCHJAER (ARGENTINA – GERMANY – FRANCE) SPECIAL MENTION TO THE PROYECT MEMORIAS DEL CALABOZO ÁLVARO BRECHNER (SPAIN-URUGUAY) Directed by Álvaro Brechner and Tornasol Films TVE-Another Look Award PAULINA SANTIAGO MITRE (ARGENTINA – BRAZIL – FRANCE) Spanish Cooperation Award LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA (LAND AND SHADE) CÉSAR AUGUSTO ACEVEDO (COLOMBIA – CHILE – BRAZIL – NETHERLANDS – FRANCE) FIPRESCI Award EL APÓSTATA ( THE APOSTATE) FEDERICO VEIROJ (SPAIN – URUGUAY – FRANCE) Zinemaldia FEROZ Award TRUMAN CESC GAY (SPAIN – ARGENTINA) SIGNIS Award MOIRA LEVAN TUTBERIDZE (GEORGIA) SPECIAL MENTION AMAMA (WHEN A TREE FALLS) ASIER ALTUNA IZA (SPAIN) Guipuzcoan Blood-Donors’ Association Corresponding to the Solidarity Award FREEHELD PETER SOLLETT (USA) Sebastiane Award FREEHELD PETER SOLLETT (USA)

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