Cinémascience crowns Fat People and Oxygen
Spain and Belgium dominated the prize list at the 3rd Cinémascience Festival organised in Bordeaux by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
The 2010 Millésime Award went to Spanish director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s Fat People [+see also:
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interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Interview with Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo,…
film profile]. The international competition jury praised "the serious subject matter explored with light-heartedness and intelligence" through its many facets and a film "at once profound, funny, social (…), technically and artistically masterful." This obesity-themed feature also picked up the Youth Jury Award.
Nine other features, all unreleased in France, screened in competition. Belgian director Hans van Nuffel’s Oxygen [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (prize-winner at Montreal and Rome – see review), which tackles the subject of cystic fibrosis, won a string of honours, including Best Actor for Stef Aerts, the Audience Award and the Coup de Cœur Award from INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research). The film also received a Special Mention from the Young Researchers Jury, who awarded their main prize to How I Ended This Summer by Russia’s Alexei Popogrebsky.
(Translated from French)
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