The 68th San Sebastián Film Festival helped revive the global festival circuit this season with a physical event held September 18-26 in Spain. The lineup, which kicked off with Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival,” concluded with the annual awards on September 26.Thirteen films were in the race for coveted awards for this rare physical film festival of the season.
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning” took four of the jury’s seven prizes, including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress for star Ia Sukhitashvili, and finally the Golden Shell for Best Film. It is a remarkable haul for a harrowing, avant-garde film that has taken critics by surprise this fall festival season, also landing the Fipresci critics’ prize in Toronto last week. The Franco-Georgian production centers on a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in remote rural Georgia, and tracks the growing psychological torment of its leader’s wife (played by Sukhitashvili) in the wake of an extremist attack on their place of worship.
The Official Jury
chaired by the Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has decided that the Silver
Shell for Best Actor should go collectively to Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo
Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe, the group of actors from the film Druk / Another
Round (Denmark-Sweden-Netherlands), directed by Thomas
Vinterberg.
In addition, the Special Jury Prize
goes to Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (UK),
Julien Temple’s music documentary about the leader of The Pogues. The jury decided that the award is “for Julien Temple and Shane
MacGowan for the beautiful, poetic, unflinching and unreconciled punk energy”
transmitted by this film produced by Johnny Depp.
The Jury Prize for Best
Cinematography has gone to Yuta Tsukinaga for his work in the feature film Nakuko wa ineega / Any Crybabies Around? (Japan), directed by Takuma
Sato.
Other awards
Isabel Lamberti’s La última primavera / Last Days of Spring (Netherlands-Spain) won the
Kutxabank-New Directors Award, and in the same section a special mention went
to Gē shēng yuán hé màn bàn pāi / Slow Singing (China), by Dong Xingyi. The
Horizontes Award was presented to Sin
señas particulares / Identifying
Features (Mexico-Spain), by Fernanda Valadez, while the
special mention went to Clarisa Navas for Las
mil y una / One
in a Thousand (Argentina-Germany). The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
Award was carried off by Catarina Vasconcelos with A metamorfose dos pássaros / The Metamorphosis of Birds (Portugal) and the
special mention went to Domangchin
yeoja / The
Woman Who Ran (South Korea), by Hong Sang-soo.
The Orona-Nest Award went to Catdog (India), by Ashmita Guha, with a special
mention for The
Speech (USA), by Haohao Yan. David Perez Sañudo’s Ane / Ane
is Missing won the Irizar Basque Film Award, while Non dago Mikel? / Where is Mikel? by Amaia Merino and Miguel Ángel
Llamas landed a special mention. The City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience
Award went to The
Father (UK), by Florian Zeller, and the Audience Award for
Best European Film was carried off by El
agente topo / The Mole Agent (Chile-USA-Germany-Netherlands-Spain),
by Maite Alberdi. Moreover, the TCM Youth Award went to Ben Sharrock for Limbo (UK).
Dasatskisi / Beginning, Druk / Another Round and Limbo come from the official selection of the Festival de Cannes, which cancelled its 73rd edition this year due to the pandemic.
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