The Father named Best Feature Film in Trieste
- The audience crowned Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s film their winner, while Réka Szabó’s The Euphoria of Being scoops the Best Documentary accolade
The 31st edition of the Trieste Film Festival will this evening award the Trieste Prize for Best Feature Film in Competition, as voted upon by the audience, to the Bulgarian film The Father [+see also:
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film profile] by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov; a work which explores a father and son’s bereavement by way of an absurd and ramshackle emotional journey steeped in feelings of guilt and broken ties.
The Alpe-Adria Cinema Award for Best Documentary in Competition, meanwhile, went to The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
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Last but not least, Aliaksei Paluyan’s Belorussian film The Lake Of Happiness walked away with the Osiride Brovedani Foundation Award for Best Short Film in Competition.
Other parallel awards of note, amongst the many other accolades on offer, include the Cineuropa Prize, which was entrusted to Lillian [+see also:
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The full list of winners is as follows:
Feature Film Competition
Trieste Award
The Father [+see also:
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film profile] - Kristina Grozeva , Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece)
Documentary Competition
Alpe-Adria Cinema Award
The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
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film profile] - Réka Szabó (Hungary)
Short Films Competition
Osiride Brovedani Foundation Award
The Lake of Happiness - Aliaksei Paluyan (Belorussia/Germany/Spain)
Other awards
Corso Salani Award 2020
The Way to the Mountains [+see also:
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interview: Micol Roubini
film profile] - Micol Roubini (France/Italy)
SkyArte Award
Forman vs Forman [+see also:
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film profile] - Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna (Czech Republic/France)
OBC Transeuropa Award
The Euphoria of Being - Réka Szabó
Eastern Star Award 2020
Kasia Smutniak
Cinema Warrior - Cultural Resistance Award
Italy’s travelling, anti-mafia film festival: Libero Cinema in Libera Terra (Free Film in a Free Land)
CEI (Central European Initiative) Award 2020
Let There Be Light [+see also:
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interview: Marko Škop
interview: Milan Ondrík
film profile] - Marko Škop (Slovakia/Czech Republic)
Cineuropa Prize
Lillian [+see also:
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interview: Andreas Horvath
film profile] - Andreas Horvath (Austria)
The Comune of Trieste’s Youth Project (PAG) Jury Prize
Frontier - Damián Vondrášek (Czech Republic) (short film)
(Translated from Italian)
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