Rotterdam awards Something Must Break
- The Swedish film, also screening at Goteborg, took home one of the three top Tiger Awards
The 43rd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is drawing to a close this weekend in the eponymous Dutch port city. The awards of the festival were handed out during a ceremony on Friday evening, with Swedish film Something Must Break [+see also:
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The film, produced by Anna-Maria Kantarius for Garagefilm, had its twin premieres at the Goteborg and Rotterdam festivals and was the only European winner in the Tiger Competition which showcases first and second-time features. Break is Bergsmark second feature and first foray into pure fiction after the documentary-fiction-autobiography hybrid She Male Snails.
The new film, about the androgynous Sebastian (Saga Becker), who dreams of being a girl called Ellie, is based on a novel by transgender artist and activist Eli Leven, who was portrayed in Bergsmark’s poetic debut that already contained passages from the novel (read the review).
The other two Tiger Award winners came from Asia: Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Ikeda Akira from Japan and Korean film Han Gong-Ju from Lee Su-Jin.
The Movie Zone award, given by a jury of teenagers aged 15-18, went to the French film Jacky in the Kingdom of Women [+see also:
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The film, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as the head of a country in which women are the rulers and all the men wear burqas, was produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint for Les Films des Tournelles.
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