EAVE project THE ACT OF KILLING scoops Best Nordic Documentary Award and Grand Prix at Batumi

Awards September 2013

• THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Celine Baggen won 9 prizes at the Ensor. The Ensor Awards of Flemish Cinema were presented at the closing of the Ostende Film Festival. Felix Van Groeningen’s film largely dominated the winners’ list. The film leaves Ostende with Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Costumes and Best Artistic Direction. 
• The award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to Mourad Zenguedi in LES BARONS by Nabil Ben Yadir, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye. 
• Wim Willaert won the prize for Best Actor in HITLER IN HOLLYWOOD, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint. 

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•  STRAY DOGS by Tsai Ming Liang, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Marianne Dumoulin scooped the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
•  A STREET IN PALERMO by Emma Dante, producers: Interchange 2010 graduate Marta Donzelli, EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
•  German director Philip Gröning collected the Special Jury Prize for his movie DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer. 
•  BETHLEHEM by Yuval Adler, co-producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye was awarded Best Film at Venice Days.
•  EAVE 2008 project ZORAN, MY NEPHEW THE IDIOT by Matteo Oleotto, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ales Doktoricis was also rewarded with the FEDIC Award, the Schermi di Qualità Award, the RaroVideo – International Critics’  Week Award and a Special Mention from the Venice International critics’ Week to Giuseppe Battiston, its main actor.
•  LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh

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•  THE VERDICT by Jan Verheyen, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert was awarded Best Director at the Montreal Film Festival.

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•  DOMESTIC LIFE by Isabelle Czajka, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman was given the Valios for best direction at the Festival Film Francophone Angoulême.

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•  IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski, proucer: EAVE 2012 graduate Lukas Dzieciol received the FIPRESCI Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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•  IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski, proucer: EAVE 2012 graduate Lukas Dzieciol also received the most prestigeous award for a producer in Poland: the Golden Lion of the Gdynia Film Festiwal. The film was awarded best cinematography, best art design, best leading actress, the journalists' award, the award of the Polish Federation of Film Clubs, and the award of the cinemas' association. 

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Three films by EAVE producers were successful at the Batumi International Festival Georgia:

• EAVE 2009 project PARADJANOV, produced and co-directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Olena Fetisova, co-produced by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili won the award for Best Actor. 
• The Grand Prix of the festival went to EAVE 2010 project THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen and EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke. 
• THE FIFTH SEASON by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril won the prize for Best Film Director.

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•  DOMESTIC by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan won Best Film at the 2nd edition of the LET’S CEE festival of films from Central and Eastern Europe in Vienna.

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•  EAVE 2010 project THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen and EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke wins the Best Nordic Documentary Award at the Nordisk Panorama.

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•  LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA by César Augusto Acevedo, producer EAVE 2012 graduate Diana Bustamante has received a special mention at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2013 

http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pagina.php?ap=1&id=3976

Page published 25 September 2013. Updated 27 September 2013.