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Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2009 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 6-19, 2008
 

Departures by Yojiro Takita
 

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best Narrative Feature: Departures (Japan) directed by Yojiro Takita
Best Documentary Feature: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (USA) directed by Eric Bricker
 
CRITICS AWARDS (foreign-language films submitted for the 2009 Academy Awards)
FIPRESCI Prize: Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq, The Necessities of Life (Canada) directed by Benoît Pilon
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actress: Martina Gusman, Lion’s Den (Argentina) directed by Pablo Trapero
 
New Voices / New Visions Award: Hooked (Romania/France) directed by Adrian Sitaru
Special Jury Mention: Rain (Bahamas), directed by Maria Govan
John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature (Narrative or Documentary): Amin Matalqa for Captain Abu Raed (Jordan/USA)
Bridging [...]

Palm Springs 2009: Modern Masters

Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments

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MODERN MASTERS
Ten films have been selected as part of Modern Masters program highlighting the latest work of established directors at the forefront of contemporary international cinema.

Adam Resurrected (USA/Israel/Germany) – Paul Schrader’s brilliant new work tells the story of Adam Stein, who grapples with a paralytic case of survivor’s guilt in the aftermath of the Holocaust. An extraordinary performance by Jeff Goldblum captures the essence of the complex central character, a man who survived while those around him perished. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer and Moritz Bleibtreu.

Cherry Blossoms (Germany) – This profoundly moving story of marital love, directed by Doris [...]

Palm Springs 2009: New Voices / New Visions

Unspoken by Fien Troch

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NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS
The New Voices/New Visions Award will honor one of 12 features from new international talents making their first or second films. The films will be judged by Orly Ravid, V.P. of U.S. Acquisitions and Distribution Senator Entertainment; Kattie Evans, National Geographic Films, V.P. Acquisitions; and Michael Kananack, V.P. Sales and Acquisitions, Neoclassics Films Ltd. Films selected for this year include:

Among the Clouds (Iran) – In southwest Iran, near the border with Iraq, a resourceful 16-year-old baggage porter becomes smitten with a slightly older Iraqi girl who’s not what she seems in this bittersweet drama. A U.S. premiere, directed by Rouhollah Hejazi.

Ciao Bella (Sweden) – When [...]

Palm Springs 2009: Premieres

Hooked by Adrian Sitaru

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PREMIERES
The Festival will offer a selection of 77 premieres of highly anticipated films showcasing the diversity of international cinema.
World Premieres include:
(untitled) (USA), Alien Trespass (USA), American Primitive (USA), Baghdad, Texas (USA), Bedford: The Town They Left Behind (USA), Dark and Stormy Night (USA), Eugene (USA), Frank the Rat (USA), Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (USA), The Inheritance of War (USA), The Least Among You (USA), Like Dandelion Dust (USA), ShowGirls, Provincetown, MA (USA), Tales from the Script (USA).
North American Premieres include:
Egon & Dönci (Hungary), Flowers of the Sky (Sri Lanka/India), The Green Dumpster Mystery (Israel), Hope Eternal (UK/Zambia/Congo/ Zimbabwe/South Africa), Kandisha (Morocco), The Karamazovs (Czech Republic/Poland), Marcello Marcello [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival 2009: Film Line-Up

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The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced a roster of 210 films, culled from 73 countries for the 2009 Festival.  The selection of films for screening includes a total of 77 premieres (14 World, 48 U.S. and 16 North American).  Also, 50 of the 67 films submitted for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards will be screened at this year’s Festival, held from January 8-19, 2009.  (Complete list of this year’s films)
"Over the course of its first 19 years, this Festival has always celebrated creative expression and embraced a diversity of visions and viewpoints," said Festival Director Darryl Macdonald.  "Happily, we are reaching our [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2008

2008 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 3-14, 2008
 

In Ognjen Svilicic’s Armin, a father and son travel to the big city where they encounter myriad temptations. Armin is Croatia’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Oscar.

FIPRESCI Awards
Best Foreign Language Film: Armin (Croatia) directed by Ognjen Svilicic
Best Actor: Song Gang-ho for Secret Sunshine (South Korea) directed by Lee Chang-dong
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) directed by Cristian Mungiu.
 

Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, which opens in the U.S. in May 2008, was the opening gala presentation at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy follows a woman [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2007

2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 4-15, 2007
2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Winners
 

 

FIPRESCI Award Winner – Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico / Spain / U.S.) directed by Guillermo del Toro
 
New Voices New Visions Grand Jury Prize: Zemestan / It’s Winter (Iran) directed by Rafi Pitts
New Voices New Visions Special Jury Prize: Aguas Argentinas / Agua (Argentina) directed by Verónica Chen
Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany) directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Audience Choice Award Best – Documentary Feature: Blindsight (United Kingdom) directed by Lucy Walker
 
Director of the Year: Alejandro González [...]

2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Winners

The 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival has announced its jury and audience winners.
The New Voices New Visions Grand Jury Prize was given to Rafi Pitts‘ Iranian drama It’s Winter, the story of a woman left behind in a small Iranian town after her husband travels abroad looking for work.

The Special Jury Prize went to Verónica Chen’s Agua, an Argentinean drama about two swimmers — one trying to refute charges of doping, the other doing whatever he can to join the national team.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s old-fashioned spy melodrama The Lives of Others, winner of 7 German Academy Awards and the European Film Academy’s best film, was the audience choice for best narrative feature. The Lives of [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 5-16, 2006
 

Set in French Indochina shortly before World War II, Minh Nguyen-Vo’s Buffalo Boy depicts the coming-of-age journey of a teenager while transporting his family’s buffalos to safer pastures during the region’s seasonal floods. The line-up of the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival included 232 films from more than 70 countries. Among the festival highlights were Breno Silveira’s Two Sons of Francisco, one of Brazil’s biggest box-office hits ever (and the cause of much consternation to Brazilian President Lula, who was caught watching a pirated DVD of the film); Cristina Comencini’s Don’t Tell, a drama about the consequences of incest-rape and Italy’s submission [...]

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