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| AWARDS AT 10th IFF BRATISLAVA 2008 |
  
photo: Gianni Di Gregorio, Amat Escalante, Zsolt Anger
GRAND PRIX for the Best Film – Mid-August Lunch / Pranzo di Ferragosto
(d. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008)
Cinema is a meeting place. Kitchen is a meeting place. 6 people and 24 hours show that life can be fun. But remember, it takes a good Chablis to make a good sauce.
Prize for the Best Director – Amat Escalante
The Bastards / Los Bastardos
(Mexico, France, USA, 2008)
It takes a gifted director to slowly build up a tragedy and thus put his cinematographic signature on the screen.
Prize for the Best Actress – Nada Abou Farhat
Under the Bombs / Sour le Bombes
(d. Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon, France, UK, Belgium, 2007)
For developing a balance between profound acting and personal engagement in an extreme situation.
Prize for the Best Actor – Zsolt Anger
The Investigator / A nyomozó
(d. Attila Gigor, Hungary, Sweden, Ireland, 2008)
For creating a strong and emotional character with minimalistic means.
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – The Zone / La Zona
(d. Rodrigo Plá, Mexico, Spain 2007)
For focusing on the fence between a rich ghetto and its poor surroundings, showing the death games people play to save their goods and indicating the uneasy ways to recover dignity and hope.
Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury – Under the Bombs / Sour le Bombes
(d. Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon, France, UK, Belgium, 2007)
For making a bridge between reality and fiction in Lebanon showing with a great respect the evolution of a woman and a man through desolation, mourning and tensions due to differences of culture, religion and social status.
Prize of the FIPRESCI – Under the Bombs / Sour le Bombes
(d. Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon, France, UK, Belgium, 2007)
Student Jury Award - The Bastards / Los Bastardos
(d. Amat Escalante Mexico, France, USA, 2008)
For a suggestive visual statement and a realistic portrayal of the clash of two different cultures.
The Slovak television Award – Studený obed / Cold Lunch / Lonsj
(d. Eva Sorhaug, Norway, 2008)
For the exceptional talent and enormous professional skills of its creators, who psychologically accurate and without pathos have pointed out the complexity of interpersonal relations.
Zlatý Bažant People's Choice Prize – Bhutan / Bhutan - Hľadanie šťastia
(d.Pavol Barabáš, Slovak Republic, 2008)
Translata People's Choice Prize for the best film of the IFF Bratislava 2008
– Mid-August Lunch / Pranzo di Ferragosto
(d. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008)
The IFF Bratislava Award for Artistic Excellence in world cinematography – Hungarian director
István Szabó |
 The 10th International Film Festival Bratislava has its winner – the debut by the Italian director and experienced screenwriter Gianni di Gregorio Mid-August Lunch. The long series of film screenings have ended with the closing ceremony and presentation of awards. Jury members presented the Grand Prix for the Best Film and three more statutory awards to the best director, the best actor, and the best actress. In total, the Festival programme included 206 films screened in 153 sessions attended by over 23 000 viewers. In the course of the Festival, 12 interpreters interpreted more than 200 films from 8 languages. This year the Festival expanded also to Košice (November 30) and Banská Bystrica ( December 4).
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 The French film Versailles is an impressive concert of actors' performances. Guillaume Depardieu, the son of his famous father, plays a homeless man with rich inner life into whose world enters a vulnerable five-year-old boy. The film talks about people in need and yet it is full of hope. The actor playing the main character has not lived to personally introduce this film at IFF Bratislava. Instead, Pierre Schöller, the director of this debut film, honored us with his visit.
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| Interview with Sahraa Karimi, director of the film Afghan Women Behind the Wheels.
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| 10th IFF BRATISLAVA 2008 IS OVER - Last day of the festival |
 Today is the last day of 10th anniversary IFF Bratislava 2008. Following the closing ceremony at 10:30 pm in theater no. 1 you will get to see the last film of the regular festival programme - Burn After Reading.
The black comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen brothers Burn After Reading is a greatly expected film event as every new work from these directors. CIA old-timer Osbourne Cox is fired because of an alcohol problem. He cannot think of any better way of venting his spleen than writing a detailed memoir about his recent past. By pure chance, the manuscript finds its way into the greedy hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, who are not particularly intelligent. They have no idea of what kind of information they got their hands on. Believing they have come across secret government files, they decide to blackmail Cox. The plot thickens and more people become involved, among them Harry Pfarrer, an investigator and notorious womanizer. Like most Coen brothers’ films, this one comes to its point but surprisingly, not according to the expectations of either the characters or the audience. A black crime comedy unfolds full
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| PEOPLE YOU CAN MEET AT THE FESTIVAL TODAY |
| Pierre Schöller (director, Versailles), Maria Dinulescu (actress, Hooked), Antonello Grimaldi (director, Quiet Chaos) |
 Versailles is a gentle, sober and moving portrait of three social outsiders at the extremes of their lives. Lonely Damien lives in the woods near Versailles Palace, but something happens and he develops a relationship with a five-year-old boy. Their bond is stronger than poverty. The film is starring Guilleame Depardieu, who promised to attend this film’s screening at this Festival. Sadly, he passed away recently and is not going to attend this or any other film screening. Versailles will be introduced at 3 pm in theater no. 2 by its director Pierre Schöller. |
| Non-Stop Screenings Until the Morning!
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Holders of all types of accreditation (VIP, GUEST, PARTICIPANT) may use up to 40% of seats in any theater – valid accreditation gives its holder the right to pick up tickets free of charge. The remaining 60% of tickets are available for purchase to any festival visitor. If you are an accredited visitor and you would like to see the screening of a film for which tickets allocated to accreditation holders have already been used up, you may buy tickets available for purchase to non-accredited visitors.
List of screenings for which there are no tickets available to accredited or non-accredited visitors:
3.12. Night Owls (K5,12:00), Bastards (k5,17:00), Snap Shots (K3,18:00), The Optimist (K2, 18:30), The Sky, the Earth, and the Rain (k5,19:30), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (K2,20:00)
4.12. Afghan Women Behind a Wheel (K3,18:00), Blind Loves (k5,19:30), Kinema- Film of the Year 2008 (K4, 20:00), Cold Lunch (K5, 17:00)
Tickets only available for:
Virgin Gypsy (K5,14:30) |
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