Grbavica wins AFI Fest's Grand Jury Prize
One week after announcing its U.S. distribution deal at the American Film Market, Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams [+see also:
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Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February, the film is Bosnia and Herzegovina's official entry for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award shortlist and was co-produced by Coop 99 (Austria). Strand Releasing is planning a 2007 release in the US of the acclaimed feature film.
"Foreign language features are hard to bring to the United States," said Zbanic, thanking the festival for its focus on foreign language films Sunday while accepting her prize. "AFI is giving people a chance to see foreign language feature films and doing a very great job bringing us together."
Mark Verkerk's Buddha's Lost Children (Netherlands) was awarded the documentary Grand Jury Prize.
Among narrative films, Switzerland's Oscar foreign language entry Vitus [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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