07/10/2013 - The Dutch Cannes competitor Borgman was the big winner at the Dutch national film awards, the Golden Calves

The latest film of Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, Borgman [+see also:
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The ceremony is traditionally held as the closing event of the Netherlands Film Festival, which wrapped in the central city of Utrecht on Friday.

The jury, headed by former International Film Festival Rotterdam head Emile Fallaux, spread the wealth rather evenly, awarding the Best Director statue to Jim Taihuttu for his black-and-white, boxing and crime drama Wolf [+see also:
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The Golden Calves for Best Supporting roles went to Jacob Derwig for his role in The Dinner [+see also:
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To further spread the wealth, small independent film &Me [+see also:
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Diego Gutierrez’s Parts of a Family was crowned Best Documentary.

The opening film of the festival, Hoe duur was de suiker [+see also:
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Over 150,000 tickets were sold during the festival’s 33rd edition, which ran September 25 to October 4, or about 10,000 more tickets than in 2012.