Braunschweig audience plays the Illegal card
The 24th Braunschweig International Film Festival (November 9-15) closed with the victory of one of the three LUX Prize finalists. Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illegal [+see also:
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At the ceremony, held on Sunday evening in the Great Hall of Brauschweig Theatre, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (A Somewhat Gentle Man [+see also:
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Braunschweig, which every year places great emphasis on music, awarded the "Leo" for Best Short Film Score to German title Loom by Ilija Brunck, Jan Bitzer and Csaba Letay. This prize comes with a €2,000 grant.
The Kinema Youth Prize – awarded for the fourth time by a Franco-German youth jury with equal representation from both countries and headed by film director Sebastian Winkels (7 Brothers) – went to I Killed My Mother by Quebec born Xavier Dolan.
(Translated from French)
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