Valeska Grisebach’s multi-award-winning drama Western [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonas Dornbach
interview : Valeska Grisebach
interview : Valeska Grisebach
fiche film] was the big winner of the 28^th Tromsø International Film Festival (15-21 January), picking up the top Aurora Prize at a packed closing ceremony that was held on Saturday 20 January at Tromsø’s Kulturhuset.

Grisebach, who was a guest at Norway’s biggest festival, received her award from the jury, comprising Ingrid Dokka (Nordnorsk Film Center), Cato Fossum (Oslo Pix), Ingrid Stensen (film and art educator) and honorary member Steven Jianhua Gao. According to the jury, “Western breathes new life into an old film genre to tell a story from a present-day Europe divided by borders between countries, as well as by the borders within ourselves.”

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Western was one of the 12 films participating in the Aurora competition programme, which all had their Norwegian premieres at Tromsø IFF. The two remaining awards were handed to the well-travelled drama Angels Wear White [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vivian Qu
fiche film], written and directed by Vivian Qu, which received the international film critics’ FIPRESCI Award, and to Soldiers. Story from Ferentari [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dawid Ogrodnik
interview : Ivana Mladenovic
fiche film] by Ivana Mladenović, which pocketed the Don Quijote Award from the International Federation of Film Societies.

Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s documentary Per Fugelli – Siste Resept [+lire aussi :
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In the popular Films from the North programme, which presents short and documentary films from the Nordic countries, I Will Always Love You, Conny by Swedish director Amanda Kernell was awarded with the Tromsø Palm for Best Film. The Un Certain Regard Prize winner A Man of Integrity by Mohammad Rasoulof received the Norwegian Peace Film Prize.

Finally, Japanese director Naoko Ogigami, who was this year’s honorary guest at Tromsø and was celebrated through a retrospective of her work, was voted for by local festival-goers and thus bagged the Tromsø Audience Award for her latest film, Close-Knit.

Here is the full list of award winners at the 28^th Tromsø International Film Festival:

Tromsø Aurora Prize
Western [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonas Dornbach
interview : Valeska Grisebach
interview : Valeska Grisebach
fiche film] – Valeska Grisebach (Germany/Bulgaria/Austria)

FIPRESCI Award
Angels Wear White [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vivian Qu
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Don Quijote Award
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dawid Ogrodnik
interview : Ivana Mladenovic
fiche film] – Ivana Mladenović (Romania/Serbia/Belgium)

Norwegian Peace Film Award
A Man of Integrity – Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)

Faith in Film Award
Per Fugelli – Siste Resept [+lire aussi :
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Tromsø Palm
I Will Always Love You, Conny – Amanda Kernell (Sweden)

Tromsø Audience Award
Close-Knit – Naoko Ogigami (Japan)