2017 film festival winners
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- CreatorDustin Lance BlackStarsRachel GriffithsAustin P. McKenzieMary-Louise ParkerA chronicled re-telling of the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969.PALM SPRINGS - Audience award for best narrative feature
- DirectorAlicia BraunsChristine SteeleStarsDave AdamsDave BarronPaula BarronAn unlikely partnership between a Veteran's Non-profit group and a Commercial Artist leads them to discover an untold story of pain and loss from the Viet Nam war in the wreckage of an old Huey helicopter which leads to unexpected results.PALM SPRINGS - Audience award for best documentary
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsSandra HüllerPeter SimonischekMichael WittenbornA practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.PALM SPRINGS - Fipresci prize for best foreign-language film
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalLuis GneccoMercedes MoránAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.PALM SPRINGS - Best actor in a foreign-language film (Gael Garcia Bernal)
PALM SPRINGS - Cine Latino Award - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsIsabelle HuppertLaurent LafitteAnne ConsignyA successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.PALM SPRINGS - Best actress in a foreign-language film (Isabelle Huppert)
- DirectorDeepak RauniyarStarsDayahang RaiAsha MagratiRabindra Singh BaniyaAnti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father's funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.PALM SPRINGS - New voices/New visions
- DirectorMbithi MasyaStarsNyokabi GethaigaElsaphan NjoraPaul OgolaA young woman with no memory of her life or death, is helped with assimilation to the afterlife by a ghost.PALM SPRINGS - New voices/New visions special mentions
- DirectorCristina Herrera BorquezStarsFelipe NájeraA couple in love from Baja California Mexico are in the middle of the preparations for a huge wedding, the only problem is that their marriage is not legal, since they are both male.PALM SPRINGS - John Schlesinger Award
- DirectorMaría José CuevasStarsOlga BreeskinLyn MayRossy MendozaAn honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame, and the chance for happiness.PALM SPRINGS - John Schlesinger Award special mention
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaStarsAdriana BarrazaAlejandro de IcazaFor 35 years Doña Flor has worked as a clerk in a government office. Each day she attends dozens of people who sit across from her and hand her their documents. For 35 years she has been invisible to these people, a mere cog in the machine. She has grown so accustomed to this invisibility that she seems to have become invisible even to herself except for the brief pause at the pool each day where she watches the children swim and remembers her daughter. One morning Doña Flor awakens to find her cat has died in the night. Unable to accept the loss of her sole companion, Doña Flor tries to continue her routine as always, but the loss opens up the much deeper wound left by the downing of her daughter. She decides to swim seeking solace in the water, but finds herself paralyzed by fear. As Doña Flor faces her fear of the water, she faces her of life. One day in the shower room another woman unexpectedly washes her back in a simple gesture of compassion that resuscitates her. "Everything Else" is a poetic and lyrical story about a woman's second coming of age as she reawakens to her self at sixty-three.PALM SPRINGS - Cine Latino Award special mention
- DirectorSacha WolffStarsToki PiliokoIliana ZabethMikaele TuugahalaA young man of Wallisian origin in New Caledonia defies his father to go and play rugby in France. Living on his own on the other side of the world, he learns there is a price to pay to find success.PALM SPRINGS - Bridging the Borders Award
- DirectorMaricel CariagaStarsArnold ReyesSue PradoMicko LaurenteA farmer's son witnesses the daily struggles of their family, leading to realizations that strengthen his resolve.DHAKA - Best children film, Badal Rahman Award
- DirectorBobby Sarma BaruahStarsPranami BoraPranjal SaikiaArati BaruahPratima, then a kid, is being told the tale of Hastir Kanya, a neglected first wife of a priest who acquires as his second wife the spoil daughter of a wealthy priest. The lonesome first wife weeps by the river that turns salty. Elephants, attracted by the salty water hear her tale of woes and anoint her. She is transformed into an elephant. Young Pratima is mesmerized by this tale. Once, as she and her friends are wandering in the fields, she notices a group of folk performers and ventures to go near them. The maid accompanying them dissuades her. At home, once, as she is learning songs sung during Kartik Puja from the maids, her guardian summons her to the palace. Things are different when she is with Lalji, her father, who encourages her to learn the soulful folk songs from the mahouts.DHAKA - Audience Award
- DirectorNader ChowdhuryStarsAnisur Rahman MilonMohona MimShahiduzzaman SelimA sand bed rise in a river and it become the point of dispute between the fisherman and the local landlord.DHAKA - Best spiritual feature film, special mention
- DirectorIda PanahandehStarsSareh BayatSahar AghiliPayam AhmadiniaA woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved in a new relationship with a man.DHAKA - Best women filmmakers film
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.DHAKA - Best women filmmakers film, special mention
- DirectorMyrsini AristidouStarsAthos AntoniouKimon ApostolopoulosParis AristidesA school note is just the excuse for Semele to visit her long absent father.DHAKA - Best women filmmakers short film
- DirectorFateme AhmadiAsmita ShrishStarsArun RaiBir Bahadur RaiSeven-year-old Chandra and his elderly grandfather have to travel on foot through earthquake-hit Kathmandu in order to get to hospital, where Chandra's mother has just given birth. Chandra is oblivious to the scenes of misery on the streets, and is fascinated by the many curious and beautiful sights, and excited about meeting his new sibling. Grandfather, who knows the sheer scope of destruction, attempts to protect Chandra from the grim reality of it all, while gradually coming to terms with the fact that the city is no longer the same, and that the hospital may not even stand.DHAKA - Best women filmmakers short film, special mention
- DirectorNatalia BruschteinStarsLaura BonaparteNatalia BruschteinThis documentary is about memory, the memory of a woman that has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for the justice of the crimes of state in Argentina.DHAKA - Best women filmmakers documentary, special mention
- DirectorSoe Arkar HtunU Thein Soe dedicated the best years of his life to working as Aung San Suu Kyi's bodyguard. To please his long-suffering wife and family he has now bowed out of politics - but still can't help giving up his time to provide local people with valuable legal advice.DHAKA - Best short/independent documentary
- DirectorHussein Hassan AliStarsRekish ShahbazDiman ZandiAdil AbdolrahmanRadical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.DHAKA - Best Asian film
- DirectorMustafa KaraStarsHaydar SismanNuray YesilarazHanife Kara"Cold of Kalandar" pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from modern life, in a mountain village.DHAKA - Best cinematography
- DirectorSoner CanerBaris KayaStarsAlen Huseyin GursoyYavuz GürbüzSeyda SozuerRauf hopes to win over his big crush, the older Zana, with the help of the colour pink. But what does pink really look like anyways, and will he even be able to find it in his snowy little Kurdish village up in the mountains? Meanwhile, disturbing rumours sweep in from the outside world.DHAKA - Best script
- DirectorMai MasriStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiNadira OmranRakeen SaadA young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.DHAKA - Best actress (Maisa Abd Elhadi)
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsFarhad AslaniMerila Zare'iMahoor AlvandA young girl leaves her hometown in south of Iran for a half day trip without permission of her strict father to attend a close friend's goodbye party. In her way back home hazy weather changes all she had planned.DHAKA - Best actor (Farhad Aslani)
DHAKA - Best film - DirectorParviz ShahbaziStarsSaed SoheiliSaghar GhanaatAzarakhsh FarahaniA young girl informs her father she's been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path...DHAKA - Best director
- DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsShahiduzzaman SelimAshraful TusharMosharraf KarimThe coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.DHAKA - Best film, special mention
- DirectorAnna Rose HolmerStarsRoyalty HightowerAlexis NeblettDa'Sean MinorWhile training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.TROMSØ - Best film
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAdrian TitieniMaria DragusLia BugnarA film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.TROMSØ - FIPRESCI Award
- DirectorJonas Selberg AugustsénStarsEira JohanssonJohanna NilssonLisa NilssonThe film follow three young girls' activities during a festive summer night in the northern part of Sweden. The girls are attending a party in a big old house, where both the previous owners oddly enough where one-eyed.TROMSØ - Best short or documentary film
- DirectorGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStarsBaldur EinarssonBlær HinrikssonDiljá ValsdóttirIn a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.TROMSØ - Don Quijote Awards, chosen by an international film club jury.
- DirectorIzer AliuStarsJasin MustafaBesar GutaBurhan AmitiThe idealistic teacher Ghani loses his principles during an intense day, when he barricades the students in an attempt in saving his working place. A political drama caging the rise and fall of a dictatorship in a classroom.TROMSØ - The Norwegian Peace Film Award
- DirectorMaya ZinshteinStarsEli CohenArcadi GaydamakAriel HarushOne season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.TROMSØ - Faith in Film Award, for religious understanding
- DirectorGry Elisabeth MortensenTrude Berge OttersenA motley crew refuse to accept the demise of Norwegian sealing and set out on a hazardous journey through the polar ice.TROMSØ - Audience Award
- DirectorSanal Kumar SasidharanStarsRajshri DeshpandeSujith KoyickalBilas Chandrahasan NairDurga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. The hapless Durga encounters a cross section of the society through the rest of the night.ROTTERDAM - Best film
- DirectorNiles AtallahStarsMario CáceresRodrigo LisboaClaudio RiverosIn 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems.ROTTERDAM - Special Jury Award
- DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsMahershala AliNaomie HarrisTrevante RhodesA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.ROTTERDAM - Audience award
- DirectorKirsten TanStarsPenpak SirikulThaneth WarakulnukrohPaveena PoungsiriOn a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.ROTTERDAM - VPRO Big Screen Award
- DirectorSophie GoyetteStarsÉliane PréfontaineGerardo TrejolunaIn Quebec, Mexico and Asia, three sensitive souls heed the call of the images and melodies that haunt their days and nights. Moved at once by loss, yearning and longing, Eliane (Eliane Préfontaine), Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and his father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) decide to take action before it is too late. Whatever the risks, they must let their dreams take flight. Implicitly trusting that inner voice dwelling inside us all, Sophie Goyette beckons us on a sensory journey where travel, art, dream, and memory serve as mileposts. Her first feature film blurs the boundary that separates night from day; poetry blooms where these two worlds intersect. As she attentively follows the three characters' quests, the filmmaker directs our gaze to the magic that seeps from the cracks in daily life. In doing so, she raises universal questions about being human, about what binds us to each other and to reality. "Mes nuits feront écho" is a bottle that Eliane, Romes or Pablo might have cast adrift: within it, a loving tribute to cinema and its ability to bring back to us what has ceased to be.ROTTERDAM - Debut award
- DirectorDaan BakkerStarsSteve AernoutsIdar AndersenMaja BaaserudFive thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.ROTTERDAM - Youthful appreciation award
- ShortDirectorDaniel CioletteA creepy psychological horror in which a young mother is traumatised by her paranoid visions of the strange woman living across the street.ROTTERDAM - FIPRESCI Award
- DirectorPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsPeter Van den BeginLucie DebayTitus De VoogdtDesperate to return home from a state visit to Istanbul when his country suffers its worst-ever political crisis, but unable to fly due to a solar storm, the King of the Belgians finds himself on a tumultuous road trip across the Balkans.ROTTERDAM - Dutch journalists' award