Three European co-productions feature on the winners list of the 47th 3 Continents Festival, which unspooled in Nantes between 21 and 29 November boasting a record number of attendees (23,000 viewers). And the audience decided to honour Mamadou Khouma Gueye’s first feature film, the documentary Attachment (Liti Liti), which is produced by Senegal, Belgium and France.

Unveiled in competition at the Visions du Réel Festival, Attachment takes us to Guinaw Rail, a forgotten neighbourhood on the outskirts of Dakar which is losing its inhabitants. Bulldozers are demolishing houses along the route of the Region Express Train, a symbol of President Macky Sall’s "Emerging Senegal”. Before it disappears and is transformed beyond all recognition, the director films the realm of his childhood and his mother as she recalls a life lived behind the Rails… The movie is produced by Sine Films (Senegal) in co-production with Twenty Nine Studio & Production (Belgium) and Les Films du Bilboquet (France). World sales are entrusted to Wawkumba Film (Senegal).

For its part, the international competition jury (including France’s India Hair, Brazil’s Tatiana Leite, Iran’s Sina Ataeian Dena and Colombia’s Franco Lolli) singled out Yoon Ga-eun’s South Korean fiction title The World of Love (presented in Toronto’s Platform section and selected to compete in Warsaw) as its winner, as well as awarding the Silver Balloon to the documentary Hair, Paper, Water… [+lee también:
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The full list of winners is as follows:

Golden Balloon
The World of Love - Ga-eun Yoon (South Korea)

Silver Balloon
Hair, Paper, Water… [+lee también:
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Special Mention
Anika Bootz – The Message [+lee también:
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Other awards

Youth Jury Prize
Suçuarana - Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges (Brazil)

Audience Award
Attachment (Liti Liti) - Mamadou Khouma Gueye (Senegal/Belgium/France)