LFF awards French & Danes
by Annika Pham
Eugène Green’s French film The Living World has been awarded the 6th FIPRESCI International Critics Award and Henrik Ruben Genz’s Danish film, Someone Like Hodder has won the Satyajit Ray Award during the closing night Gala of the London Film Festival (LFF) on November 6th.
The Living World was described by the panel of international critics as “a graceful, joyous and entirely unpredictable film, steeped in medieval mythology in Bresson, Rohmer and Lacan, a film of ogres, knights and lions. A delight”.
Nordisk’s children’s film Someone Like Hodder, a critical and box office hit a home (with over 143,000 admissions) received the prestigious Satyajit Ray Award, given annually to a first time director whose film the jury believe best captures the compassion and humanism of Ray’s vision.
As a whole, the London Film Festival has had another successful year, with over 115,000 tickets sold, up 5% on the previous year, and all 123 screenings were sold out.
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