21/10/2014 - Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz’s courtroom drama Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem wins the Silver Mirror at Oslo’s largest film festival

“I will not be physically there, but I will be with all of you via Skype, live,” wrote legendary 85-year-old Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky – the guest of honour at Norway’s 24^th Films from the South. A pulmonary infection had forced him to cancel his visit to Oslo’s largest showcase (9-19 October) – but he was there for the artist talks both in spirit and on screen.

“An auteur who challenges our perception of life, blurring the boundaries between reality and dreams, and expanding all worldly matters to a galactic quest: who we are, what we are and what we will become is his concern. A man that has never been forced into silence,” was the motivation for presenting Jodorowsky with the Silver Mirror Honorary Award.

Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality [+see also:
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Swedish director Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence [+see also:
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After a programme of 240 screenings – 90 films mainly from (or about) developing countries, this year more than 40 of them – Argentinian director Damián Szifrón’s Cannes entry, Wild Tales [+see also:
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