Parked wins top prize at 60th Mannheim-Heidelberg fest
The main prize in international competition at the 60th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (November 10-20) was awarded to Irish director Darragh Byrne’s Parked [+see also:
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Produced by Ripple World Pictures, the film is sold internationally by Swedish company The Yellow Affair. Parked also received a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.
The Ecumenical Jury also gave a Special Mention to the film that won the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize and the Audience Award: Sebastián Borensztein’s Spanish/Argentinean co-production Chinese Take-Away [+see also:
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Other European prize-winners at the festival include actor Laurent Capelluto, who received a Special Mention from the international jury for his performance in Miel van Hoogenbemt’s Belgian film My Only Son, and Polish DoP Piotr Niemyjski, who also got a Special Mention for his work on Bartosz Konopka’s film Fear of Falling.
(Translated from French)
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