Eat Your Bones wins Best Film at Turin Film Festival
- For Some Inexplicable Reason, by Gábor Reisz, has been given the Jury Award and the Audience Award. Two Special Mentions went to N-Capace by Eleonora Danco
On-the-road Roma brought to the screen by Jean-Charles Hue won over the juries of the 32nd Turin Film Festival, concluded last Saturday. The jury for the International Feature Films Competition made up of Ferzan Ozpetek, Geoff Andrew, Carolina Crescentini, Debra Granik and György Pálfi has in fact given the Award for Best Film (with €15,000) to the French Eat Your Bones [+see also:
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The Special Jury Award (€7,000) went to a Hungarian film: the existential-surreal comedy For Some Inexplicable Reason [+see also:
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N-Capace by Italian Eleonora Danco (read the review) earned two Special Mentions: from the jury “because it really moved us emotionally and intellectually with its lyrical and sharp portrait of modern-day Italy” (that was the motivation); and another mention went to the personalities interviewed in the film (“we appreciated their contributions to the movie; they’re fun and honest and they taught us a lot”).
The Award for Best Actress went ex aequo to Sidse Babett Knudsen, in the role of Cynthia in The Duke of Burgundy [+see also:
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The Award for Best Screenplay went to hilarious What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi (New Zealand), about the daily life of four vampires in Wellington.
The FIPRESCI Award went to Mercuriales [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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