Canadian filmmaker Jasmin Mozaffari won the hearts of jurors Beatriz Seigner, Soheil Beiraghi, Sofie Palage, Tomas Hanzon and Ulf Rollof at this year’s edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival thanks to her compelling drama Firecrackers, about young friends Lou (Michaela Kurimsky) and Chantal (Karena Evans) trying to escape their small town.

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The film earned Kurimsky the Best Actress gong and was named Best Film for, as it was argued, “its originality in portraying the love between two friends, for its urge for freedom, autonomy and loyalty in a violent world, and for bringing us to situations in a way that we have never seen before. It’s a perfectly directed film where all elements come together in a unique universe of its own.” Alba August, the breakthrough star of Becoming Astrid [+lire aussi :
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Eva Trobisch was named Best Director for All Good [+lire aussi :
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Nadine Labaki’s festival favourite Capernaum [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], and the coveted Stockholm Impact Award – plus a cash prize of 1 million SEK – went to Beatriz Seigner for Los Silencios [+lire aussi :
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In the documentary competition, Vitaly Mansky proved unbeatable once again with his shocking exposé Putin’s Witnesses [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], featuring unique footage that he shot back in 2000 as a member of the president’s campaign team. “At a specific moment in time, and through unique and extraordinary access that would seem impossible nowadays, the director shows us how power works in private. Through the ordinary, day-to-day details of rulers of a country – and you cannot come much closer to a president than this – he also tells us a lot about what is happening in the world today,” explained jurors Maud Nycander, Ognjen Glavonić and Stina Gardell. “What makes this film really special is the personal story at its core, in which the director speaks very honestly and openly about his own responsibility, and the importance of reflection and acknowledging your own role in the process of shaping reality.”

The festival ran from 7-18 November.

Here is the complete list of winners at the 29th Stockholm Film Festival: 

Best Film
Firecrackers – Jasmin Mozaffari (Canada) 

Best Director
All Good [+lire aussi :
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Best Debut
Skate Kitchen – Crystal Moselle (USA)

Best Actress
Michaela Kurimsky – Firecrackers 

Best Actor
Victor Polster - Girl [+lire aussi :
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Best Cinematography
Hiroshi Okayama - Jesus (Japan)

Best Script
Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Kesrouani, Georges Kabbaz, Khaled Mouzanar - Capernaum [+lire aussi :
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Best Documentary
Putin’s Witnesses [+lire aussi :
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Stockholm Impact Award
Los Silencios [+lire aussi :
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Best Short Film
Judgement – Raymund Ribay Gutierrez (Philippines)

Best Short Pitch
Badet – Disa Östrand (Sweden) 

Stockholm Rising Star
Alba August 

1 KM FILM 2018
Julia Thelin

1 KM FILM 2018 Honourable Mention
Ernst De Geer

FIPRESCI Award for Best Film
Cold War [+lire aussi :
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Stockholm Visionary Award
Asghar Farhadi 

Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award
Mary Harron 

Stockholm Achievement Award
Gunnel Lindblom