Clown picks up Audience Award at Braunschweig
The 23rd Braunschweig International Film Festival closed yesterday with the triumph of Marco Pontecorvo’s Italian/French/Romanian film Clown [+see also:
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The film, also presented at the latest Venice Film Festival, won the event’s most important prize, the Heinrich Audience Award, worth €10,000 (to be shared between the film’s director and German distributor).
The KINEMA Prize was awarded by the young Franco-German jury (presided by director Michael Hofmann) to Juliette Garcias’ French film Be Good [+see also:
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The Leo Award for Best Original Score in a Short Film was handed to Géza M Toth’s Hungarian title Mama.
This year, the festival drew 22,000 visitors.
(Translated from French)
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