Hlynur Pálmason wins best directing award for his debut Winter Brothers.
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
- 6/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Life in the near future might look like a perfect spread from Architectural Digest but the liberty of each individual turns out to be more than paper thin in Life Guidance, the second fiction feature from Austrian director Ruth Mader (Struggle). An unsettling but also frustrating dystopian fable packaged as property porn, this feature imagines a future not all that different from our own, where capitalism has triumphed and its rules, including the expectation of ever-better results, are being applied to each person individually as well. The film’s hero, however, is quite content with his life and refuses to better...
- 9/4/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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