email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

FESTIVALS Romania

Stockholm wins top award at TIFF

by 

- With one exception, the festival’s awards go to European productions and co-productions

Stockholm wins top award at TIFF
Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s micro-budget second feature, Stockholm [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, partially produced through a crowdfunding campaign, was the winner of the Transilvania International Film Festival’s top award, the Transilvania Trophy. The film also received awards for the two main actors, Javier Pereira and Aura Garrido.

All but one of the awards went to European productions and co-productions, with Tomasz Wasilewski's Floating Skyscrapers [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Tomasz Wasilewski
film profile
]
(Poland) winning the Best Directing Award and Maya Vitkova’s Viktoria [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maya Vitkova
film profile
]
(Bulgaria-Romania) winning the Special Jury Award.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

The jury (British producer Nik Powell, Hungarian director Janos Szasz, Romanian actress Cristina Flutur, American film festival director Michael Kutza, and Israeli DoP Giora Bejach) gave two Special Mentions to Amir Toodehroosta’s Paat (Iran) and Noaz Deshe’s White Shadow [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Noaz Deshe
film profile
]
(Italy-Germany-Tanzania). 

The Audience Award went to Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Uberto Pasolini
film profile
]
(UK-Italy). The FIPRESCI Award, given to one of the 12 films in the Eye for an Eye sidebar, went to Calvary [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: John Michael McDonagh
film profile
]
, by John Michael McDonagh (Ireland).

The Romanian Days Award for Best Feature Film was won by Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, while Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s The Japanese Dog [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
received the Best First Feature Award.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi and American actress Debra Winger received Lifetime Achievement Awards, and Romanian actor Florin Zamfirescu (Child’s Pose [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Calin Peter Netzer
film profile
]
) received an Excellence Award.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy