31/05/2010

The winner of last year’s Un Certain Regard in Cannes, top prize at the Montreal Festival of New Cinema, Bronze Horse at Stockholm and Special Jury Prize in Sarajevo, Dogtooth [+see also:
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The jury comprising Rosalind Gant, Hrvoje Turkovic and Brian Daniel Willems chose the bizarre Greek family drama from a competition that included Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen [+see also:
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In the ten-strong competition of short films, the award went to Croatia’s Dalibor Matanic (Kino Lika [+see also:
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