The Special Jury Award goes to ‘Lazzaro Felice’, which also wins the Critics’ Awards, while Panos Cosmatos picks up the Award for Best Director for ‘Mandy’The list of award winners at the 51st Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia was very widely dispersed. Filmmaker Gaspar Noé and Climax convinced the jury of the Official Selection, which presented it with the award for Best Feature Length Film. The Special Jury Award was for the fantastic fable Lazzaro Felice, which picked up two more prizes, the Critics’ Award and the Carnet Jove Jury Award. Meanwhile, filmmaker Panos Cosmatos was proclaimed best director for Mandy. The Argentinean director residing in France, Gaspar Noé, after winning the Golden Méliès Award a few days ago for the year’s best European fantastic production, obtained the Award for Best Feature Length Film at Sitges 2018. Climax is a sensorial and lysergic festival to the rhythm of urban dance, with the dose of perturbation that characterizes Gaspar Noé. In this new film, Noé locks viewers up, along with a group of dancer, in a large house in the middle of the snow to rehearse the choreographies for their new show. From Italy comes Lazzaro Felice, the third movie by the screenwriter and filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, which thrilled Cannes, where it picked up the award for best screenplay. It’s a film that’s hallway between a tale, magical realism, social drama and science fiction, which was presented by actor Sergi López at a packed Retiro theater. The film picked up three prizes: the Special Jury Award, the Critics’ Award and the Carnet Jove Jury Award. Meanwhile, Mandy, a powerful action and vengeance film with dazzling aesthetics was acknowledged by the Official Selection Jury that rewarded the work of its director, Panos Cosmatos. Secció Oficial Fantàstic Sitges 51 Best feature lengthfilm: CLIMAX, de Gaspar Noé Special Jury Award: LAZZARO FELICE, d’Alice Rohrwacher Special mention: L’HEURE DE LA SORTIE, de Sébastien Marnier Best director: Panos Cosmatos, per MANDY Best actress (patrocinat per Vallformosa): Andrea Riseborough, per NANCY Best actor: Hasan Ma’jun, per PIG Best screeplay (patrocinat per CaixaBank / Obra Social ‘la Caixa’): Quentin Dupieux, per AU POSTE! Best special effects (patrocinat per Slate): Atsushi Doi, per INUYASHIKI Best cinematography: Panjar Kumar, per TUMBBAD Best original music: Chu Ishikawa, per KILLING Grand Audience Award (patrocinat per La Vanguardia): UPGRADE (ILIMITADO) Audience Award Panorama Fantàstic: MONSTRUM Audience Award Sitges Documenta: GOODBYE RINGO Best shortfilm (patrocinado por Fotogramas): POST MORTEM MARY, de Joshua Long Noves Visions Best feature lenth film Noves Visions: DESENTERRANDO SAD HILL, de Guillermo de Oliveira Best director: Philip Groning, per MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AND IDIOT Best shortfilm Noves Visions: DEER BOY, de Katarzyna Gondek Special mention: DOMESTIK, d’Adam Sedlák Special mention for best actress: Jessie Buckley, per BEAST Special mention: CHERNOBYL, 1986, de Toni Comas Blood Window Best feature length film: MUERE, MONSTRUO, MUERE, d’Alejandro Fadel Méliès Silver Méliès Award for Best feature length film: FUGUE, d’Agnieszka Smoczynska Silver Méliès Award for best shortfilm: THE DEATH OF DON QUIXOTE, de Miguel Faus Focus Àsia TUMBBAD, de Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi Lee An-kyu Special mention: MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU, de Timo Tjahjanto Anima’t Best feature length film: MIRAI, de Mamoru Hosoda Special mention feature length film: TITO E OS PÁSSAROS, de Gustavo Steimberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto Best shortfilm: THE WHEEL TURNS, de Sang Joon Kim Special mention shortfilm: UNTRAVEL, d’Ana Nedljkovi, Nikola Majdak Jr. Órbita Best feature length film: AMERICAN ANIMALS, de Bart Layton Special mention: FLEUVE NOIR, d’Erick Zonca Fantàstic Discovery Best feature length film: MAQUIA: WHEN THE PROMISED FLOWER BLOOMS, de Mari Okada Midnight X-Treme Best feature length film: MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU, de Timo Tjahjanto Premi Brigadoon Paul Naschy BAGHEAD, d’Alberto Corredor Jurat de la crítica Jose Luis Guarner Critics’ Jury Award: LAZZARO FELICE, d’Alice Rohrwacher Citizen Kane Award for best new director: DOMESTIK, d’Adam Sedlák Special mention: UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, de David Robert Mitchel Slatix Sitges Cocoon Best virtual realty film (patrocinat per Slatix): DEERBROOK, de Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley, John Riera, Connor Illsley Premis SGAE Nova Autoria Best director: JAURÍA, de Gemma Blasco Best screenplay: Aleix Abulí, per CIUTAT I SELVA Best original music: Natasha Arizu, per DOT Jurat Carnet Jove Best feature length film Jove Jury: LAZZARO FELICE, d’Alice Rohrwacher |
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