Un Certain Regard - Awards
- A six-hour-long film by Italian Marco Tullio Giordana won the top award hands down. Recognition also for Panahi and Bensaidi
Italian director, Marco Tullio Giordana, has won Un Certain Regard – Altadis 2003 for his six-hour epic entitled La meglio Gioventù. This victory is the result of a unanimous vote by the jury presided over by Mauritanian filmmaker, Abderrahmane Sissako. La Meglio Gioventù was produced by Bibi Film for Rai Fiction and portrays the life and events experienced by Italians from the 1960s to the present day. The international filmgoing public is familiar with another of Giordana’s works, I Cento Passi and he celebrated this important victory prior to tomorrow’s official presentation of the award, together with his cast, crew and producers because “this film is the result of teamwork and not just something I did on my own,” underlined Giordana.
For the first time in its long history, this Un Certain Regard jury also assigned two other awards. The Jury Prize went to Sang et Or by Iran’s Jafar Panahi. Initially it seemed unlikely that this film would be allowed to screen in Cannes as Iranian authorities were reluctant to allow it to leave the country. The Premier Regard award was won by Franco-Belgian-Morocca co-production, Mille mois, the directorial feature debut by Morocco’s Faouzi Bensaidi, produced with a Euros1.67m budget by Gloria Film – Entre Chien et Loup and Agna Film, as well as with funding from the French box office advance system.
(Translated from French)
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