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CYPRUS FILM DAYS 2021 Premios

Sole, de Carlo Sironi, triunfa en los 19os Cyprus Film Days

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- Fernanda Valadez y Zoé Wittock se han llevado los otros galardones internacionales principales en el mayor evento del país insular

Sole, de Carlo Sironi, triunfa en los 19os Cyprus Film Days
El equipo del Cyprus Film Days en la ceremonia de clausura

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The 19th edition of the Cyprus Film Days International Festival wrapped on 24 April with its awards ceremony, which was held at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol. The most important event of fiction film on the island, which ran from 16-24 April in both Limassol and Nicosia, presented Sole [+lee también:
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by Carlo Sironi with the Glocal Images Best Film Award, which is accompanied by a €6,000 prize.

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The international jury, presided over by the artistic director of the Mostra de València-Cinema del Mediterrani Film Festival, Eduardo Guillot, and comprising Bulgarian actress Irmena Chichikova, Greek writer-director Minos Nikolakakis, Cypriot actress Kika Georgiou and Cypriot film composer George Kallis, have picked Sironi’s film for “his sensitivity to develop an impossible love story between two lost souls, through an engaging and laconic visual narrative that enchants and captures the viewer.”

The Special Jury Award, which is accompanied by the amount of €3,000, was handed to  the Mexican drama Identifying Features [+lee también:
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by Fernanda Valadez, “for a brave film that poetically, yet realistically, portrays the desperate mother’s search for her son, confronted with a devastating truth.”

The Best Director Award was given to Belgian helmer Zoé Wittock for her film Jumbo [+lee también:
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, as she “flawlessly used absurd genre elements, waving them into a most humane psychological coming-of-age story”; the trophy is accompanied by €1,000, as well as by post-production services, worth of €4,000, offered by Authorwave. Furthermore, the jury has picked The Last Bath [+lee también:
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by David Bonneville for an Honorary Distinction for “beautifully exploring intimacy, desire and faith, and for pushing human boundaries into unexpected paths”.

Finally, the Audience Award went to the Cypriot film Senior Citizen, directed by Marinos Kartikkis.

Here is the complete list of winners at the 19th Cyprus Film Days:

Best Film
Sole [+lee también:
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– Carlo Sironi (Italy/Poland)

Special Jury Award
Identifying Features [+lee también:
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– Fernanda Valadez (Mexico/Spain)

Best Director
Zoé Wittock – Jumbo [+lee también:
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 (France/Luxembourg/Belgium)

Honorary Distinction
The Last Bath [+lee también:
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– David Bonneville (Portugal/France)

Audience Award
Senior Citizen – Marinos Kartikkis (Cyprus/Greece)

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