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CANNES 2014 Awards

FIPRESCI Prize goes to Winter Sleep

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- CANNES 2014: The international critics have crowned the film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan; other award winners are Jauja and Love at First Fight

FIPRESCI Prize goes to Winter Sleep
Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has handed out its prizes on the eve of the awards night at the 67th Cannes Festival. In the official competition, the International Critics' Award went to Winter Sleep [+see also:
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by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (read the review – sold by Memento International).

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In the Un Certain Regard selection, the victor was Jauja [+see also:
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, by Argentina's Lisandro Alonso (read the review), a co-production between seven countries: Argentina, Denmark, France, Mexico, the USA, Germany and Brazil.

The FIPRESCI Prize for the parallel sections was won by Love at First Fight [+see also:
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by French director Thomas Cailley (read the review – sales by Bac Films), a feature debut unveiled at the Directors' Fortnight.

Also of note was the Ecumenical Jury Prize, which went to the majority French production Timbuktu [+see also:
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, by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako (read the review – sales by Le Pacte), popular in the official competition. Two Special Mentions were given to two feature films presented in Un Certain Regard: Beautiful Youth [+see also:
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interview: Jaime Rosales
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by Spaniard Jaime Rosales (read the review) and the documentary The Salt of the Earth [+see also:
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, directed by Germany's Wim Wenders and Brazilian filmmaker Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (see news).

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(Translated from French)

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