04/04/2011

Unveiled in the Panorama section at the latest Berlinale, Belgian director Michaël R.Roskam’s Bullhead [+see also:
film review
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interview: Bart Van Langendonck
interview: Michaël R. Roskam
film profile] (Rundskop) scooped double honours at the 3rd Beaune International Thriller Film Festival. The film, which explores the mafia behind animal hormone trafficking (see news), won both the Jury Prize (awarded by a jury headed by Régis Wargnier) and the Critics’ Prize (ex-æquo with Australian feature Animal Kingdom).

While this year’s Grand Prize went to Asia with Korean director Lee Jeong-beom’s The Man From Nowhere (South Korea), Europe also took another Jury Prize for Baran Bo Odar’s German production The Silence [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (to be released in France on April 27 by DistriB Films), and the Special Police Prize for Brit helmer John Madden’s The Debt [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Universal Pictures International France on June 8).

Finally, French director Yvan Gautier’s US production L.A. I Hate You triumphed in the New Blood section, whose jury was presided by Frédéric Schoendoerffer.

(Translated from French)