San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2009 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 18-26, 2009
 
Official Selection

GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH by LU CHUAN (China)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE REFUGE by FRANÇOIS OZON (France)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR
JAVIER REBOLLO for LA MUJER SIN PIANO (Spain-France)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR
PABLO PINEDA for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS
LOLA DUEÑAS for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)

JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY
ANDREW BOVELL, MELISSA REEVES, PATRICIA CORNELIUS and CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS for BLESSED (Australia)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CAO YU for CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (China)

 
Official Competition Jury: LAURENT CANTET (France) (President), BONG JOON-HO (Korea), DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO (Spain), JOHN MADDEN (United Kingdom), LEONOR SILVEIRA (Portugal), PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA (Spain), SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF (Iran)
 
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup

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 – sunday 26 april, 14.15

Leonera (Lion’s Den) by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008)
saturday 25 april, 20 – monday 27 april, 11

Selda (The Inmate) by Ellen Ramos, Paolo Villaluna (Philippines, 2008)
saturday 25 [...]

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: WRANGLER: ANATOMY OF AN ICON, CHEF’S SPECIAL

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Sunday, April 5, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
 

Out Late

Directed by:
Beatrice Alda, Jennifer Brooke

Country:
USA

Year:
2008

Running time:
62min

 
A truly inspiring and important film about the experiences of LGBT elders, specifically those who have come out in their sixties and seventies. There are stories about coming out in church, discovering The L Word for the first time at eighty and transitioning from male to female after a lifetime in the navy and raising a family. The film movingly explores the difficulties and liberation of discovering sexuality later in life and in particular highlights the often unsuccessful search for life partners in a world that places so much value [...]

2007 Goya Awards: Nominations

Viggo Mortensen in Alatriste (top); Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo, Penélope Cruz in Volver (bottom)

Agustín Díaz Yanes‘ 17th-century tale of a Spanish soldier turned mercenary, Alatriste, and Pedro Almodóvar’s story of the women of La Mancha, Volver, dominated the Spanish Film Academy’s 2007 Goya Award nominations announced yesterday, Dec. 18, by actors Pilar López de Ayala and Juan José Ballesta. Alatriste, the most expensive Spanish film ever made (€24 million), received a total of 15 nods, while Volver received 14.
Both Alatriste and Volver were nominated for best film, best director, and, respectively, for best adapted screenplay (Alatriste is a cinematic condensation of five novels by Arturo Pérez Reverte) and best original screenplay. (Curiously, Volver failed to get a best editing [...]

Goya 2005

2005 Goya Awards
2005 Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Award winners: Jan. 31, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Javier Bardem, Lola Dueñas in The Sea Inside
 

Best Picture
La Mala educación / Bad Education. El Deseo
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside. Sogecine / Himenóptero
Roma. Tesela P.C / Aristarain P.C
Tiovivo c. 1950. NickelOdeón Dos / Enrique Cerezo, PC / PC29
Best European Film
Being Julia, by István Szabó (United Kingdom / Hungary)
* Gegen die Wand / Head-On, by Fatih Akin (Germany)
Monsieur Ibrahim, by François Dupeyron (France)
Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Peter Webber (United Kingdom / Luxemburg)
Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film
El rey, by Antonio Dorado (Colombia)
Luna de Avellaneda, by Juan José Campanella (Argentina)
Machuca, by Andrés Wood (Chile)
* Whisky, [...]