Genz received the main award for his film, telling the grotesque story of a young policeman from Copenhagen who was after his professional misconduct sent to a small provincial town situated at bottomless bogs. The grand jury bestowed the Special Jury Award on The Photograph by Indonesian director Nan Triveni Achnas that describes a relationship between two lonely people - a young prostitute and an ageing photographer. The Best Director Award went to Russian Make-up artist's husband charged ...
Ferguson wins managerial honour ... Aleksei Uchitel for the film Captive (Plennyi) that is set in the Chechen war but presents a universal theme of people in extreme situations. Czech actress Martha Issova and her Czech colleague Jiri Madl were awarded for their performance in the Czech film Night Owls (Deti noci) directed by Michaela Pavlatova. The main jury also gave a special mention to The Karamazovs directed by Czech Petr Zelenka in coproduction of the Czech Republic and Poland and to The Investigator (A nyomozo) by Hungarian director Attila Gigor, in coproduction of Hungary, Sweden and Ireland. In the category of documentaries, including 16 films, the jury decided to bestow the main awards on the Hungarian-Finnish Lost World (Letuent vilag) directed by Gyula Nemes and on British James Marsh's documentary Man on Wire. A special mention went to U.S.
documentary film-maker Christopher Bell for Bigger, Stronger, Faster. A total of 15 films competed in the East of the West Section. Its jury gave the main award to Tulpan directed by Kazakh Sergei Dvortsevoi in coproduction with Germany, Switzerland, Russia and Poland. A special mention went to Bulgarian film Seamstresses (Sivacki) by Lyudmila Todorova. Czech-born film director Ivan Passer, 75, who chaired the grand jury, was tonight presented with the Crystal Globe Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Passer, a representative of the New Czech Film Wave of the 1960s, shot only one Czech full-length feature film, Intimate Lighting (1965), before he left the communist Czechoslovakia. Since 1969, he has lived in the United States where he has directed some 20 films, such as Born to Win (1971), Cutter's Way (1981) and TV film Stalin (1992). Passer also cooperated as a script-writer with another legendary Czech film director, Milos Forman, in the 1960s. During the festival's closing ceremony, British actor Christopher Lee, 86, received the Festival President's Award that is given to actors, directors, and producers who have contributed in a fundamental way to the development of world cinema. The festival audience also annually awards the best film on the basis of a poll in the cinemas. This year Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov won the Audience Award with his film 12 that sets the story of Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) in the current Russia.
(Ceske Noviny)
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