{"id":2666,"date":"2009-06-27T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfilmfest.sk\/en\/blog\/uncategorized\/2009\/06\/art-film-fest-recognises-winners\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T11:38:46","slug":"art-film-fest-recognises-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffartfilm.com\/en\/blog\/highlights\/2009\/06\/art-film-fest-recognises-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Film Fest Recognises Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"align-justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The festival\u2019s main prize, the Blue Angel Award for best film, granted in conjunction with a monetary prize of 15 000 euros, was taken by the film <b>Hunger<\/b> from director Steve McQueen, who won the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or for best debut at last year\u2019s Cannes. <br \/>The film is generally considered one of the best works of last year. It takes place in 1981, the year when the Northern Ireland conflict escalated into a deadly struggle. The suggestive drama is set in the Maze, a prison near Belfast, where four men meet \u2013 the prison guard Raymond Lohan, working in one of the infamous cell blocks, young and timid prisoner Davey Gillen, his friend and protector Gerry Campbell and Bobby Sands, boss of the cell block. Together they announce a protest, demanding recognition as political prisoners, and thus refuse to wear prison uniforms or maintain their personal hygiene. The renowned British visual artist and debuting director depicts the final six weeks in the life of a political prisoner. His picture offers a precise and engrossing portrait of political violence.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cIt is a very psychologically demanding film and professionally wrought. It meets its intellectual demands and gripped with its plot and suggestive storytelling. It displayed an ability to indivisibly combine an utterly artistic experience with general appeal. The film\u2019s casting was precisely thought-out, with excellent and praise-worthy performances,\u201d concurred the 17th Annual Art Film Fest International Competition of Feature Films\u2019 international jury, which included Czech actor and director Jan Ka\u010der, actress, singer and world-traveller Dorota Nvotov\u00e1, Hungarian actress and director Eniko Eszenyi, German curator, dramaturge and film festival director Heiko Fischer and American critic and publicist Jay Weissberg.<br \/>The picture Hunger garnered yet another award at Art Film Fest: the Blue Angel award for best actor, accompanied by a monetary prize of 2 500 euros, was given to Hunger\u2019s star, actor <b>Michael Fassbender<\/b> from Great Britain.<br \/>\u201cFor mastery, professionalism and a stirring, authentic experience of creative acting,\u201d commented the jury.<br \/>The Blue Angel Award for best director, in conjunction with a monetary prize of 5 000 euros, was bestowed upon director Warwick Thornton\u2019s <b>Samson &amp; Delilah<\/b>. The Australian film was also awarded with the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or for best debut at this year\u2019s Cannes.<br \/>This story of Samson, a brash fifteen-year-old boy, and Delilah, a modest fourteen-year-old girl, takes place in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. Day after day, nothing changes, everything stays the same and nothing interests anybody. When a tragedy strikes, both teenagers are forced to set out on a journey into the unknown. The boy and girl soon discover that life outside their community is cruel. Despite the hunger and unfairness they experience, they find love in one another.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cFor its innovation and suggestiveness, masterful handling of difficult themes, lack of pretence and deep message,\u201d explained the five-member jury.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Blue Angel Award for best actress, accompanied by a monetary prize of 2 500 euros, was taken by actress <b>Nesipkul Omarbekova<\/b>, who played the leading role in the film <b>Native Dancer<\/b>.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cFor the role of Aidai-apa, also with regard to the film\u2019s other qualities as a search for a way to one\u2019s roots, nature and family,\u201d said the jury.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A special jury mention was received by the Korean picture <b>Treeless Mountain<\/b> from director So Yong Kim, about little girls whose childhood innocence is taken by adult lies, and who movingly attempt to find their place in the world, which isn\u2019t exactly ideal for children.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThis is a lucid, polished film, with excellent cinematography, sound and brilliant child actresses sensitively directed.\u201d<br \/>The Award of the Mayor of the Town of Tren\u010dianske Teplice went to the film The <b>Visitor<\/b>, directed by Jukka-Pekka Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 and the Mayor of the Town of Tren\u010d\u00edn Award was given to the film <b>Machan<\/b>, directed by Uberto Pasolini.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Malaysian film <b>Everyday Everyday<\/b> by Chui Mui Tan leaves Art Film Fest bearing the honour of Best Short Film and the On the Road Award.<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The main character Sook Chen has decided to change her life. She has quit her job to try something new, writing for example, somewhere else, as far from Malaysia as possible, perhaps in Peru. The film asks: Is writing a good escape plan from the labyrinth within oneself? <br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cEvery day we have the opportunity to see simple stories, but it\u2019s not every day that we can see a film with such a simple story and at the same time such depth, full of humour and emotion and delicately portraying human nature, relationships and love,\u201d explained the three-member International Jury of Short Films, which included Polish film historian and theorist Jadwiga Glowa, Romanian screenwriter and director Adrian Sitaru and Slovak animator, director and producer Ivana Zajacov\u00e1.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival\u2019s main prize, the Blue Angel Award for best film, granted in conjunction with a monetary prize of 15<span","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art Film Fest Recognises Winners &#8226; 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