Other winners include The Painted Bird, Queen of Hearts, Father, Two of Us, Mater, Ivana the Terrible and Vienna Hallways, the new film by Serbian director Mladen Djordjević. The 48th Belgrade International Film Festival Fest (28 February-8 March) has wrapped with Karim Aïnouz's Cannes Un Certain Regard prizewinner The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (Brazil/Germany) picking up the Belgrade Victor Award for Best Film in the main competition. Václav Marhoul won the Best Director Award for The Painted Bird (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Ukraine), and Rita Kalnejais received Best Screenplay for Australian director Shannon Murphy's Babyteeth, both of which world-premiered at Venice. The acting prizes went to Trine Dyrholm for her role in May el-Toukhy's Queen of Hearts (Denmark/Sweden) and to Goran Bogdan for his performance in Srdan Golubović's Father (Serbia/France/Germany/Croatia). Both films previously won Audience Awards after their world premieres at Sundance and the Berlinale,...
Ivana Mladenović's semi-autobiographical docu-fiction hybrid has come out on top at Zagreb, with other winners including Babyteeth, Jojo Rabbit and The Diary of Diana B. Ivana Mladenović's semi-autobiographical docu-fiction hybrid Ivana the Terrible has won the main award, the Golden Pram, at the recent Zagreb Film Festival, which took place from 7-17 November in the Croatian capital. The prize, provided by Adiko Bank, was worth €4,000 and was handed out by a jury consisting of filmmakers Dana Budisavljević, Ágnes Kocsis and Elmir Jukić. In their explanation, they stated that the film “easily finds its way to viewers' hearts because of the spontaneity and self-irony of its leading actress and directress” Mladenović. In addition, they claimed that it further blurs the lines between documentary and fiction filmmaking. In the same category, covering filmmakers' first and second feature films, Alejandro Landes' Sundance-premiered Monos won a Special Mention thanks to its unique visual...
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