Spanish film scoops Heinrich Audience Award at Braunschweig
The audience at the 25th Braunschweig International Film Festival (November 8-13) picked its prize-winner from among the 15 titles in the international line-up. The Heinrich Audience Award this year went to Spanish director Tom Fernández’s What’s a Bear For? [+see also:
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The Leo, which rewards a short film for its use of music, went to Floris Kyaak’s Dutch animated production The Origin of Creature (whose score is composed by Lennert Busch).
The fifth Kinema Prize, awarded by a young Franco-German jury, went to French production Deliver Us Not Into Temptation by Cheyenne Carron, who wins a 35mm print of his film with German subtitles.
The festival’s most important gong, the Europa European Actors Award, was presented to Isabelle Huppert at the start of the festival.
(Translated from French)
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