Offline triumphs in Amiens
- Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress for Belgian director Peter Monsaert’s film. Swedish film Eat Sleep Die also a winner
Belgian director Peter Monsaert’s Offline [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (read more) has won the Licorne d’Or for Best Film as well as Best Actress (Anemone Valcke) and Best Actor (Wim Willaert) at the Amiens Film Festival.
After winning at the Critics’ Week in Venice, Swedish filmmaker Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
film review
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interview: China Ahlander
interview: Gabriela Pichler
interview: Nermina Lukac
film profile] (read the review and watch the interview) has continued to do well (the film also won in Sevilla and in Lubeck) with a Jury Special Mention and joint Best Actress (Nermina Lukac).
Lam Lê’s French documentary Cong Binh, la longue nuit indochinoise won the Jury Special Prize, while Djamila Sahraoui’s Algeria-France co-production Yema won a prize from the Town of Amiens. As for the Audience Award, it went to Licinio Azevedo’s Virgin Magarida (a Mozambique-France-Portugal co-production).
This 32nd edition of the Amiens Film Festival handed out three Licorne d’Or to honour the careers of Haitian director Raoul Peck, Argentinian-French director of photography Ricardo Aronovich, and Croatian filmmaker Vatroslav Mimica.
(Translated from French)
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