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| Awards GIGANTE and STORM at Berlinale 2009
During the Award Ceremony, February 14, the winners of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival were announced.
Gigante, Uruguyan debut film from director Adrián Biniez, was with three important awards one of the winners of the festival competition. The film won the Silver Bear / Jury Grand Prix, the Alfred Bauer Prize (for a feature film that breadens the horizons of the art of filmmaking) and the Best First Feature Award. Adrián Biniez was praised for his passion to use cinema to do what cinema can do best: to tell important stories about our time and the human condition.
Gigante, a coproduction of Control Z Films, Pandora, Rizoma Films and IDTV Film, is a film about Jara, a big and shy supermarket security guard who discovers a cleaning woman through the surveillance cameras and falls in love with her. Soon Jara's life starts to turn into a series of rituals and routines around the woman and the desire to get to know her.
Also Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid, won three awards at the Berlinale: the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, the "Berliner Morgenpost" readers' Jury award and the Amnesty International Film Prize for filmmakers who take up the issue of human rights. The jury report says: "Storm merges international human rights politics and an individual case of injustice into a heart-beating thriller."
Storm, a German production from 23/5 Filmproduktion, Zentropa and IDTV Film, starring a.o. Kerry Fox, Annamaria Marinca and Stephen Dillane, is about a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a Bosnian woman to testify against an alleged war criminal. Amidst the incosistency of political interests and threats coming from Serbian nationalists, she recognizes that her opponents not only sit on the dock across from her, but are also found in her own ranks. Distributor A-Film will release the film.
During the Award Ceremony, February 14, the winners of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival were announced.
Gigante, Uruguyan debut film from director Adrián Biniez, was with three important awards one of the winners of the festival competition. The film won the Silver Bear / Jury Grand Prix, the Alfred Bauer Prize (for a feature film that breadens the horizons of the art of filmmaking) and the Best First Feature Award. Adrián Biniez was praised for his passion to use cinema to do what cinema can do best: to tell important stories about our time and the human condition.
Gigante, a coproduction of Control Z Films, Pandora, Rizoma Films and IDTV Film, is a film about Jara, a big and shy supermarket security guard who discovers a cleaning woman through the surveillance cameras and falls in love with her. Soon Jara's life starts to turn into a series of rituals and routines around the woman and the desire to get to know her.
Also Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid, won three awards at the Berlinale: the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, the "Berliner Morgenpost" readers' Jury award and the Amnesty International Film Prize for filmmakers who take up the issue of human rights. The jury report says: "Storm merges international human rights politics and an individual case of injustice into a heart-beating thriller."
Storm, a German production from 23/5 Filmproduktion, Zentropa and IDTV Film, starring a.o. Kerry Fox, Annamaria Marinca and Stephen Dillane, is about a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a Bosnian woman to testify against an alleged war criminal. Amidst the incosistency of political interests and threats coming from Serbian nationalists, she recognizes that her opponents not only sit on the dock across from her, but are also found in her own ranks. Distributor A-Film will release the film.
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