16/06/2003

The 19th Festroia - the International Film Festival of Troia in Portugal ended on a high note on Sunday, 15 June with the presentation of the Dauphin Awards. Festival president, Mário Ventura and artistic director, Fernanda Silva used this occasion to launch an appeal to save the festival, one of the many cultural activities of Portugal that have been hard-hit by the country’s current financial problems.
The international jury of British actor, Nicholas Grace, Portuguese actress Laura Soveral, US journalist, Ron Holloway, German actress, Dorothea Moritz, Hungarian director, Ferenc Moldoványi, Spanish journalist, José Vaz Pereira and Portuguese writer, Pedro Bandeira Freire assigned this year’s Golden Dauphin to Argentine-Iberian co-production, Històrias Mìnimas by Carlos Sorìn.

Silver Dauphins went to Iran’s The Winter Song by Farhad Mehranfar, Kukushka by Russia’s Alexandr Rogozhin while Alice Nellis won for the screenplay of Some Secrets and DP Pedro Farkas won for Desmundo by Alain Fresnot. Finland’s Anni-Christina Juuso won the best actress award for Kukushka and the UK’s Jamie Sives won the best actor award for Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself [+see also:
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Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig’s, the man behind the recent international hit, Italian For Beginners, also took home the Jury Fipresci (International Film Critics’ Guild) Award. Festroia also gave an Honorary Dauphin to Portuguese actor Ruy de Carvalho in recognition of his forty-year-long career.
The 20th edition of Festroia is scheduled for 28 May- 6 June 2004.

The Troia Festival Winners

Dauphin d'Or for Best Film
Històrias Mìnimas by Carlos Sorín (Argentina/Spain)

Silver Dauphin – Special Prize of the Jury
The Winter Song by Farhad Mehranfar (Iran)

Silver Dauphin for Best Director
Alexandr Rogozhkin for Kukushka (Russia)

Silver Dauphin for Best Actress
Anni-Christina Juuso (Finland) for Kukushka by Alexandr Rogozhkin (Russia)

Silver Dauphin for Best Actor
Jamie Sives (United Kingdom) for Wilbur wants to kill himself by Lone Scherfig (Denmark)

Silver Dauphin for Best SCreenplay
Alice Nellis for Some Secrets (Czech Republic)

Silver Dauphin for Best Cinematography
Pedro Farkas for Desmundo by Alain Fresnot (Portugal/ Brazil)

Fipresci Prize
Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself by Lone Scherfig (Denmark)

Best First Film
One-Way Ticket to Mombasa by Hannu Tuomainen (Finland)

Special Mention
Winning Ticket by Sándor Kardos and Illès Szabo (Hungary)

OCIC Award
Brats by Zdenek Tyz (Slovakia)

Special Mention
(A)Torsion by Stefan Arsenijevic (Slovenia)

Setúbal Town Award
Actor Tae-jin Kim for A Little Monk by Kyung-jung Joo (South Korea)

Man & Nature Award
Choropampa by Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd (Peru)

Special Mention
Naquele Bairro by Madalena Miranda (Portugal)
Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good by Matej Minac (Czech Republic)

(Translated from French)