Monday, December 24, 2007

12 th IFFK AWARDS PRESENTED IN A GLITTERING FUNCTION HELD HERE THIS EVENING.

The IFFK main jury announced that two films share the highest level of artistic integrity and declared that the Suvarna chakoram and cash prize of INR 10 lakhs for the best film will be shared equally between XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo from Argentina, and 10+4 directed by Mania Akbari from Iran. The Rajatha chakoram and cash prize of INR 2 Lakhs for the Best director goes to Mania Akbari from Iran for her film 10+4.. The Rajatha Chakoram and cash prize of INR 3 lakhs for the Best Debut Film of a director goes to Lucia Puenzo from Argentina for her film XXY. The Jury of the 12th IFFK awards a special jury prize to the director, Abdullah Oguz of the Turkish film BLISS, for its very efficient expression of the universal problem of the oppression of women in traditional societies .NETPAC Award for the Best Malayalam Film goes to Ore Kadal directed by Shyamaprasad . NETPAC award for the Best Asian Film in competition goes to Getting Home Director Zhang Yang.Fipresci Award for the Best Malayalam Film goes to Ore Kadal and fipresci Award for the Best Film in competition goes to Sleepwalking Land Director by Teresa Prata. V.S.Achuthanandan, Chief Minister of Kerala ,M.A Baby ,Minister for Cultural Affairs ,Vijayakumar ,Minister for Law ,Panniyan Raveendran .M.P , Director K.P Kumaran , Actor Murali etc participated in the finale. .

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