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Keep Smiling triumphs in Montpellier

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- Georgian director Rusudan Chkonia's film wins the competition at the 34th Mediterranean Film festival. Audience Award for The Parade

After being discovered at the Venice Days, Georgian director Rusudan Chkonia's Keep Smiling [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rusudan Chkonia
film profile
]
(read the review and watch the interview with the director), a film co-produced by France and Luxembourg, last Saturday won the Golden Antigone at the 34th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. The jury, which included producer Sylvie Pialat and director Manuel Pradal, awarded a Special Mention to Ibrahim El Batout's Winter of Discontent, an Egyptian feature that also won the Critics' Award.

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The Audience Award was handed to Srdjan Dragojevic's The Parade [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, a Serbian-Craotian co-production that was well reviewed in the Panorama section of the last Berlinale (read the review) and is due out in French cinemas on January 16 (Sophie Dulac Distribution). The Young Audience Award went to Nabil Ayouch's God's Horses [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nabil Ayouch
film profile
]
, a film unveiled during Cannes' Certain Regard.

The feature competition also included, among others, Spanish film director Pablo Berger's Snow White [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pablo Berger
film profile
]
, Bosnian director Aida Begic's Children of Sarajevo [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aida Begić
film profile
]
, Italian director Stefano Mordini's Steel [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stefano Mordini
film profile
]
, Martin Turk's Slovenian production Feed Me With Your Words, and Belgian director Kadija Leclere's Le Sac de farine [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
.

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(Translated from French)

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