Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh won prize of Un Certain Regard in 66th Festival de Cannes


Un Certain Regard 2013 of the 66th Festival de’ Cannes presented in competition 17 films hailing from 15 different countries. 6 of the works were first films.The Bling Ring directed by Sofia Coppola opened the program out of competition. Under the presidency of Thomas Vinterberg (Director - Denmark), the Jury was comprised of Zhang Ziyi (Actor - China), Ludivine Sagnier (Actor - France), Ilda Santiago (Head of Festival do Rio - Brazil) and Enrique Gonzalez Macho (Producer, Distributor, Exhibitor - Spain).

While announcing the jury decision Thomas Vinterberg  Jury President said “Clay figures, extreme beauty, violence, homosexual blow jobs, systematic humiliation of the human kind, Léa Seydoux’s legs, great Brando imitations are just some of the unique images that will follow us for a while.  This selection was insistingly unsentimental, and still poetic. It was political, highly original, sometimes disturbing, diverse and first of all, very often - unforgettable.” 

PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
THE MISSING PICTURE by Rithy Panh

JURY PRIZE

OMAR by Hany Abu-Assad
    
DIRECTING PRIZE

Alain Guiraudie for Stranger by The Lake

A CERTAIN TALENT PRIZE

For the ensemble cast of La Jaula De Oro by Diego Quemada-Diez

AVENIR PRIZE

Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler 


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