The 25th edition of the Oldenburg International Film Festival ended on Sunday, after five days of ambitious and daring independent films screened across six different programmes. The International section, which included the opening and closing films – respectively the Russian title Unforgiven by Sarik Andreasyan, the first film from outside Germany ever to open the festival, and the French production Promise at Dawn [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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In the Independent section, the Oldenburg IFF, dubbed the "European Sundance", showed off a clutch of young, fresh offerings, such as Isabella Eklöf’s chilling debut, Holiday [+leggi anche:
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The main award, the German Independence Award for Best Film in the Independent section, went to Mikhail Raskhodnikov's Temporary Difficulties (Russia). The German Independence Award for Best Short went to Fauve by Jeremy Comte (Canada). This year, the Seymour Cassel Award for Outstanding Performance went to two actresses: Victoria Carmen Sonne for the aforementioned Holiday and Gabriela Ramos for Is That You? (Cuba/UK) by Rudy Riverón Sánchez.

With more than 15,500 admissions to the various different festival venues (including a prison, where guests and inmates could enjoy the screenings together), the organisers consider this 25th edition of the Oldenburg IFF (which unspooled from 12-16 September) a "roaring event and a complete success".