20/12/2010

At the 2nd Les Arcs European Film Festival, the jury headed by Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg awarded the Crystal Arrow to Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland’s A Somewhat Gentle Man [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hans Petter Moland
film profile]. Unveiled in competition at this year’s Berlinale, the feature will be released in France on February 2, 2011 by Chrysalis Films.

Spanish director Iciar Bollain’s Even the Rain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Icíar Bollaín
film profile] (Spain’s entrant for the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race – see news) scored an impressive hat-trick, winning Best Actor (for Juan Carlos Aduviri), the Audience Award and Youth Jury Prize. The film will be released in France on January 5, 2011 (distribution: Haut et Court) and in Spain on January 7 (Alta Films).

The Jury Prize went to Aleksei Uchitel’s Russian feature The Edge, Best Cinematography to Brit helmer Peter Mullan’s Neds [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Best Actress to Jasna Duricic for her performance in Oleg Novkovic’s Serbian/German/Swedish co-production White White World [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (which scooped the same gong at Locarno). For the record, the Co-production Village crowned the project Ailleurs Peut-être (“Elsewhere Perhaps”), produced by French company Oscar & Rosalie.

Finally, the Cineuropa Prize was awarded to Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s animated feature Chico & Rita [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando
film profile], which tells the story of some Cuban jazz musicians from Havana to New York in the late 1940s. The jury described the film as "wonderfully captivating" on account of its "magnificent graphics" by Javier Mariscal, a storyline oscillating between romanticism and tragicomedy, and a sensual atmosphere carried by its languorous musical score.

(Translated from French)