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Admission record – and a come-back for Jodorowsky - at Oslo’s Films from the South

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- Silver Mirrors for Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky and Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the Norwegian festival for films from Asia, Africa and Latin America

Admission record – and a come-back for Jodorowsky - at Oslo’s Films from the South

Screening 90 films from Asia, Africa and Latin America, the 23rd edition of Oslo’s Films from the South registered a record number of 24,222 admissions – a 20% increase from last year – for the festival organised by the Norwegian South Film Fund. 23 was also a lucky number for Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose first film in 23 years, The Dance of Reality [+see also:
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(photo), collected the Silver Mirror Grand Prix as winner of the international competition among 18 contenders.

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“The film is absurd and carnevalesque, yet at the same time honouring the diversity of human nature. This is a declaration of love to the individual, with all its strengths and weaknesses,” said the jury about Jodorowsky’s allegory of his own years as a Jewish refugee in an impoverished Chilean mining town. Before The Dance of Reality, the director signed The Rainbow Thief in 1990.

The Doc:South Award for Best Documentary also went to a Chilean film, Christian Soto’s The Last Station, following everyday life at a retirement home. “In an honest, fearless and at times funny way the film approaches the moment of death …  the best memento mori movie we have seen in a long time,” the jury concluded.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Past [+see also:
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, which won two prizes at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival, picked up the Audience Award. Farhadi’s depiction of an Iranian who leaves his wife and children to return to his homeland will accordingly be aired by Norway’s NRK. At the festival, which ended October 20, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [+see also:
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was awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes 2010, received the Silver Mirror Honorary Award.

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