Into Great Silence awarded at Sundance
Silence at the movies pays, and that profound and engrossing variety of German documentary Into Great Silence [+see also:
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Already a winner of the Bavarian Film Award 2005, Groening’s film was a success in Germany, driving thousands of Germans to see a documentary on monastic life in Grenoble’s Grande Chartreuse, and also winning out at the Christmas box office.
Robert Redford’s festival also gave awards to a number of European shorts: The Natural Route (Spain), by Alex Pastor; Before Dawn, by Hungarian filmmaker Bálint Kenyeres; and Undressing My Mother (Ireland) by Ken Wardrop. The award for Best Up-and-coming European Director went to Belgian director Patrice Toye, for her second feature, The Spring Ritual.
(Translated from Italian)
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