The 33rd edition of the Pilsen-based festival has wrapped, awarding the best domestically produced oeuvres in the process. This year’s previously postponed edition of the Czech annual showcase of domestic cinema and audiovisual works, Finále Plzeň (see the news), managed to wrap successfully before the country entered a state of emergency owing to a new spike in coronavirus cases. After the festival provided an in-depth overview of domestic production from the past 2019-2020 season and offered a sneak peek at upcoming theatrical releases with a slew of premieres, the annual film gathering wrapped with its awards ceremony. The country’s nominee for the Oscars, Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird, Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek’s senior-starring revenge road movie Old-Timers and Michal Hogenauer’s English-language feature debut, the social thriller A Certain Kind of Silence, all locked horns for the Golden Kingfisher Award, but Marko Škop’s family...
The Grand Prize of the 21st Aubagne International Film Festival went to composer Geert Hellings for his work on Tim Mielants’ movie, while A Certain Kind of Silence also scooped a trophy. The only event in Europe wholly dedicated to the coming together of image and sound, the 21st Music & Cinema Aubagne International Film Festival (which successfully unspooled online between 30 March and 4 April) has awarded the Grand Prize for Best Original Music to Belgian composer Geert Hellings for his work on the film Patrick by his compatriot Tim Mielants. The feature film competition jury also honoured the film with the award for Best Cast. Discovered in the Work in Progress section of the Les Arcs Film Festival before going on to claim the Best Director award in Karlovy Vary, as well as the 2020 Magritte for Best Flemish Film, this feature film produced by Belgian groups Savage...
The only festival in Europe devoted entirely to the meeting of image and sound will unfold online between 30 March and 4 April. Screening out of competition, the Venetian prize-winner A Son by Mehdi M. Barsaoui will this evening open a rather unique 21st edition of Music & Cinema, The Aubagne International Film Festival, which has chosen (and managed), in the face of the global health crisis, to organise and to transpose almost all of its programme online in record time. Featuring on the agenda is an international competition consisting of ten titles, including Patrick by Belgium’s Tim Mielants (crowned Best Director at Karlovy Vary and awarded 2020’s Best Flemish Film Magritte), Binti by his compatriot Frederike Migon, A Certain Kind of Silence by...
Other winners include ’Ghost Tropic’, ‘The Fourth Wall’ and ’A Certain Kind of Silence’.
Immigrant drama I Am No Longer Here, from Mexican director Fernando Frias, has won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the 41st Cairo International Film Festival.
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Frias’ timely drama centres on a Mexican teenager forced to move to the Us after getting on the wrong side of a drugs cartel. Its young star, Juan Daniel Garcia Trevino, was feted with best actor.
Also in the international competition, Belgian director Bas Devos won the Silver Pyramid for urban night-time odyssey tale Ghost Tropic.
Immigrant drama I Am No Longer Here, from Mexican director Fernando Frias, has won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the 41st Cairo International Film Festival.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Frias’ timely drama centres on a Mexican teenager forced to move to the Us after getting on the wrong side of a drugs cartel. Its young star, Juan Daniel Garcia Trevino, was feted with best actor.
Also in the international competition, Belgian director Bas Devos won the Silver Pyramid for urban night-time odyssey tale Ghost Tropic.
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Ghost Tropic and A Certain Kind of Silence were among the European movies awarded during the 41st edition of the Ciff, as the event attained Oscar-qualifying status. Before the 41st Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) announced its award winners, the event received a distinction from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences: Oscar-qualifying film-festival status. From now on, any short film that wins Cairo’s Cinema of Tomorrow competition will be eligible for consideration in two Oscar categories: Animated and Live-action Short Film. This year, the opportunity was given to Ambience by Wisam Al Jafari (Palestine), which scooped the Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film. The International Competition Jury, led by Stephen Gaghan, decided to give the top recognition, the Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film, to I Am No Longer Here by Fernando Frias (Mexico/USA), which revolves around a 17-year-old boy who has to leave his native Mexico.
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