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The Balkans seduce Montpellier

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- The Mediterranean Film Festival has awarded Kordon by Markovic, Rezervni Deli by Kozole and Al Fuoco! by Zalica. There were also prizes for the Turkish Uzak the Italian Il Posto dell'Anima and the French company, Memento Film

The award ceremony of the 25th edition of the International Festival of Mediterranean Films at Montpellier was a veritable tapestry of European works. The festival finished yesterday after 10 days and 200 screenings. Apart from the Turkish film, Uzak, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which has already been awarded in the official competition at the last Cannes Festival and which won both the Golden Antigone for Best Feature Length Film and the Critics’ Prize at Montpellier, this year’s cinematography from the Balkans showed an interesting vitality.

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The film from Serbia and Montenegro, Kordon by Goran Markovic, presented in the feature length film competition, was joint winner of the Critics’ Prize and also received a Special Mention from the public jury of youngsters. Rezervni Deli by the Slovenian Damjan Kozole won the Nova Prize and the Titra Film award giving support to distribution. The feature film from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Al Fuoco!, made by Pjer Zalica won the GTC Prize for technical support, as well as the Students’ Prize. In the short films competition, the Slovenian, Martin Turk virtually walked away with the trophy cabinet, with his L’escursione winning the Grand Prize, the Public Prize and Young Public prize.

There were only crumbs left for the other Mediterranean countries, with the Public Prize going to Posto dell'Anima by the Italian Riccardo Milani, the Young public prize being awarded to the French production Le soleil assassiné by Abdelkrim Bahloul and a Special Mention in the Students Prize for Les yeux secs by Narjiss Nejjar (Morocco-France). Spain was mainly featured in the short films competition, with El Hombre del Saco by Miguel Angel Vivas winning the Cine Cinecourts Ciné Cinémas prize and the young public prize jury awarding a special mention to Belarra by Koldo Almandoz. The Ulysses Prize for Best Documentary was awarded to Ford Transit by Hani Abu-Assad (Palestine-Netherlands) while support for production and distribution were given to the French company Memento Film for the feature length film project Quel che so di Lola by Javier Rebollo (a French-Spanish co-production).

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(Translated from French)

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