Montpellier: Crossroads for Mediterranean cinema
The 28th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival ended yesterday with the 2006 Antigone d’Or for Best Feature going to Croatian film Put Lubenica by Branko Schmidt, the tale of a smuggler working for the Mafia.
A special mention went to Turkish title Times and Winds by Reha Erdem, while Italian director Marina Spada won the Critics’ Prize with her second feature As the Shadow, starring Anita Kravos, Karolina Porcari and Paolo Pierobon. Spain’s David Marquès took the Audience Award for Isolated, screened out of competition in the Panorama section.
From October 27 to November 5, the Montpellier festival presented 252 films, including 113 premieres. Opened by Laurent Herbiet’s My Colonel [+see also:
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interview: Alexandre Mallet-Guy
interview: Charlotte Gainsbourg
interview: Emanuele Crialese
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interview: Fabrizio Mosca
film profile] by Italy’s Emanuele Crialese (see interview), Saimir [+see also:
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interview: Zeynep Ozbatur
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Selected features included the UK/Balkan co-production Border Post by Rajko Grlic, Spanish films De bares by Mario Iglesias, August Days [+see also:
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This wealth of Mediterrean films was completed by Romanian title The Paper Will Be Blue by Radu Muntean, Greek titles Le Cœur du monstre (lit. “The Heart of a Monster”) by Renos Haralambidis and Les Sirènes de l'Egée [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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