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Spanish drama Magical Girl has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
Carlos Vermut also won the Silver Shell for best director for the film, produced by Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films and is sold by Films Distribution.
Jury chairman Fernando Bovaira described Vermut as “a disturbing, delicate and unique voice”.
The film, which debuted at Toronto and is currently screening at Zurich before going on to Busan, centres on the wish of an ill child who wants the dress in Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Her father sets out to obtain it but enters a world of blackmail and tragedy.
It marks Vermut’s second film after Diamond Flash.
The Special Jury Prize went to Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), the new film by...
Spanish drama Magical Girl has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
Carlos Vermut also won the Silver Shell for best director for the film, produced by Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films and is sold by Films Distribution.
Jury chairman Fernando Bovaira described Vermut as “a disturbing, delicate and unique voice”.
The film, which debuted at Toronto and is currently screening at Zurich before going on to Busan, centres on the wish of an ill child who wants the dress in Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Her father sets out to obtain it but enters a world of blackmail and tragedy.
It marks Vermut’s second film after Diamond Flash.
The Special Jury Prize went to Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), the new film by...
- 9/27/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda) michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The programme is made up of seven features and four shorts; Tokyo Gohan Film Festival to present one of the films with a special prize.
The fourth edition of San Sebastian’s “Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy” section - a collaboration with the Berlin Film Festival and the Basque Culinery Center - will open September 20 with Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring Helen Mirren.
A total of seven full-length films and four short films make up this year’s programme.
The selection will be accompanied by themed dinners prepared by international chefs at the Basque Culinary Center and Spanish restaurants Mirador de Ulía, ni neu and Tenis Ondarreta.
For the first time this year The Tokyo Gohan Film Festival has also come onboard to award one of the films with a prize of €10,000 for its international distributor, or, in the event that it has no distributor, for its producer.
Naoki Kai, director...
The fourth edition of San Sebastian’s “Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy” section - a collaboration with the Berlin Film Festival and the Basque Culinery Center - will open September 20 with Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring Helen Mirren.
A total of seven full-length films and four short films make up this year’s programme.
The selection will be accompanied by themed dinners prepared by international chefs at the Basque Culinary Center and Spanish restaurants Mirador de Ulía, ni neu and Tenis Ondarreta.
For the first time this year The Tokyo Gohan Film Festival has also come onboard to award one of the films with a prize of €10,000 for its international distributor, or, in the event that it has no distributor, for its producer.
Naoki Kai, director...
- 7/18/2014
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
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