Play triumphs at Titanic

by Fabien Lemercier

23/04/2012 - After its debut last year at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, Play [trailer, film focus] (pictured) (finalst of the Lux Prize 2011, European Parliament) by Ruben Östlund yesterday won the international competition at the 19th Titanic Film Festival in Budapest (read more). The Swedish feature was awarded the Breaking Waves Award for most remarkable, audacious, and innovative film by a jury made up of Hungarian director Agnes Kocsis, her fellow-countryman producer Andras Muhi and director of the Warsaw Film Festival Stefan Laudyn.

The Audience Award went to Hasta la vista [trailer] by Belgian director Geoffrey Enthoven.

(Translated from French)