Sunday, October 26, 2008

Molodist 38 – Kyiv International Film Festival Award Winners

Recently the festival announced the award winners in the Sunny Bunny queer program and the winners are the following.

Best Film: The Guitar, Amy Redford, USA (lesbian interest)
Best Short: Café Com Leite, Daniel Riveiro, Brazil (gay interest)

Yesterday they announced the first awards in the Competition program and here they are

FIPRESCI Award: Versailles, Pierre Scholler, France

FICC Award: Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran
Special Mentions: Snow, Aida Begic, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Le Ring (Fight), Anais Barbeau-Lavalette, Canada

Ecumenical Award: Un Coeur Simple, Marion Laine, France
Special Mention: Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran

Best Ukrainian Film: Butterfly Wings, Oleksandr Balagura, Ukraine

Finally the fest posted the main award winners and here they are.

Grand Prix (tie): Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, Hana Makhmalbaf , Iran and Shultes, Bakur Bakuradze, Russia

Prize for Best Full-Feature Film: Hadersfild (Huddersfield), Ivan Zivkovic, Serbia, 2007
Yves Montad Prize for Best Acting: Zsolt Anger for A Nyomozo (The Investigator), Atila Gigor, Hungary, 2007

To check all the awards in the official press release go here.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:04 PM

    And wouldn't it be good if we could actually watch "The Guitar", someday???

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  2. Hi, can you believe that people in Ukraine had the chance before many of us??? Gee, I'm definitively living in the wrong side of the world, at least for what could be great movies. lol!

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