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2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival Awards 2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: April 23-30, 2009   Best Feature Film: Leonera / Lion's Den by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008) Special Mention: Actress Martina Gusman for Lion's Den Special Jury Award: Elève libre / Private Lessons by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium, 2008) Special Mention: Actor Jonas Bloquet for Death in Venice Special Mention: Wu sheng feng ling / [...]

Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup Feature Films IN COMPETITION Rückenwind (Light Gradient) by Jan Krüger (Germany, 2009) friday 24 april, 18.30 – saturday 25 april, 14.30 El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard) by Belén Macías (Spain, 2008) friday 24 april, 22.45 – saturday 25 april, 11.30 Gu huo (Fire in Silence) by Shen Weiwei (China, 2008) saturday 25 april, 18 – [...]

  Giovanni Minerba (above), director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of Turin's annual gay & lesbian film event, which will take place April 23-30. In addition to competition and out-of-competition screenings, the festival will feature homages, retrospectives, and assorted sidebars, including a tribute to Spanish director Ventura Pons, best known internationally for [...]

2009 Ariel Awards 2009 Ariel nominations: Feb. 27, 2009 2009 Ariel winners: National Auditorium in Mexico City on March 31, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Fernando Eimbcke's minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of his father. Lake Tahoe won three Ariels: best film, best director, and [...]