Mustang is awarded the Grand Prix and the Golden Duke for Best Film at Odessa
- The FIPRESCI prize went to the co-production The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls
The sixth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Ukraine) wound up on Saturday 18 July with an award ceremony that turned the spotlight onto women, with two female directors being awarded two of the biggest prizes of the festival apiece.
Unveiled during Directors’ Fortnight at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Turkish-French-German co-production Mustang [+see also:
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The Jury of the International Competition, presided over by French director Jeanne Labrune and made up of directors Šarūnas Bartas (Lithuania), Srđan Dragojević (Serbia) and Sergey Bukovsky (Ukraine) and Polish producer Dariusz Jabloński, also awarded Song of Songs [+see also:
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Israeli actress Tamar Alkan received an award for her role in The Man in the Wall by Evgeny Ruman, and the documentary The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls (a co-production between Poland, Sweden, the Ukraine and Israel) by Krzysztof Kopczyński was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for Best Film in the National Competition.
The festival, which concluded with a screening of An [+see also:
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interview: Tihana Lazovic
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Q&A: László Nemes
interview: László Rajk
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
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For a complete list of the winners of the festival click here and here.
(Translated from French)
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