Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Tokyo Film Festival Awards
2009 Tokyo Film Festival: October 17-25, 2009
 

In Kamen Kalev’s Bulgarian drama Eastern Plays, two estranged brothers are unexpectedly brought together after they play opposing roles in a racist beating — Georgi is a new member of a neo-Nazi group; Itso, a drug-addicted artist, rescues the victimized Turkish family. Compounding matters, Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) starts to question his place in the neo-nazi movement while Itso (Tokyo best actor winner Christo Christov) falls for the Turkish girl he saved. Eastern Plays is the second film featuring neo-nazi characters to win a top international film festival prize this week. Nicolo Donato’s Danish drama Brotherhood, about two neo-nazis who fall in love with one another, was [...]

by Irene Young | October 25, 2009   
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Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2008

2008 Tokyo Film Festival Awards
2008 Tokyo Film Festival: October 18-26, 2008
 

Set in the arid steppes of Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan chronicles one young man’s struggle to prove himself worthy of a wife. In the meantime, he has to cope with his sister’s family, a reluctant bride-to-be, sand storms, and illness in the family’s sheep herd — all that while listening to "By the Rivers of Babylon" on a falling-apart car radio.
 

Best Film: Tulpan, Sergei Dvortsevoy
Special Jury Prize: Cztery noce z Anna / Four Nights with Anna, Jerzy Skolimowski
Best Actress: Félicité Wouassi, Aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera / With a Little Help from Myself
Best Actor: Vincent Cassel, L’ennemi public n°1 and L’instinct de mort
Best Artistic Contribution [...]

by Andre Soares | October 26, 2008   
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