The 51st Worldwide Movie Competition of India was pared down significantly as a result of coronavirus pandemic
Danish World Conflict II epic “Into The Darkness” gained the highest honour of Golden Peacock Award on the closing ceremony of the 51st Worldwide Movie Competition of India (IFFI), which was pared down significantly as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
Director Anders Refn’s “Into the Darkness” chronicles the complicated, emotional turmoil of the Danish individuals through the Nazi occupation of the nation.
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The award consists of a money prize of RS 40 lakh, to be shared equally between Refn and producer Lene Borglum. The duo, nevertheless, weren’t current.
Mandarin drama, “The Silent Forest”, bagged two high honours- greatest actor male and greatest director.
Taiwanese actor Tzu-Chuan Liu, 17, was honoured with ‘Silver Peacock for Finest Actor’ for his function of a listening to impaired within the movie whereas Taiwanese filmmaker Chen-Nien Ko gained the most effective director award for her “heart-wrenching exposition of the systemic sexual abuse” occurring in a college for youngsters with particular wants.
The Silver Peacock for greatest actor – feminine was awarded to Polish actor Zofia Stafiej, for her function in director Piotr Domalewski’s “I By no means Cry” on the ceremony held on the .
The movie explores the journey of a daughter who has to navigate the maze of forms out of the country to convey again the physique of her lifeless father.
Stafiej, who wasn’t current at occasion as effectively, would obtain a certificates and money award of RS 10 lakh.
The IFFI 51 ‘Particular Jury Award’ was bagged by Bulgarian director Kamin Kalev’s 2020 movie “February”, whereas the most effective debut director award went to Brazilian filmmaker Cassio Pereira dos Santos, for his 2020 Portugese drama “Valentina”.
The movie tells the story of a 17-year-old transgender Brazilian lady aspiring for a traditional life.
The ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Award—given to a movie that displays Mahatma Gandhi’s beliefs of peace, tolerance and non-violence—was awarded to Ameen Nayfeh’s 2020 Arabic movie “200 Meters”.
The award consists of a certificates and a medal. It’s given as a part of IFFI’s collaboration with the Worldwide Council for Movie, Tv and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) Paris.
The winners had been determined by the Worldwide Jury, comprising Argentine director Pablo Cesar as Chairman, Prasanna Vithanage (Sri Lanka), Abu Bakr Shawky (Austria), Indian filmmaker Priyadarshan and Rubaiyat Hossain from Bangladesh.
Cesar, who couldn’t be current on the occasion, stated in a video message, that the competition provided the jury diverse themes of movies to select from.
“Particularly those who make us replicate on particular person freedoms, rights of kids and all of the individuals of this world, empowerment of ladies and reminiscences of issues that very same individuals have achieved which we’re positive we by no means need to occur once more. Thanks IFFI for collection of movies that are wealthy in content material and aesthetic search,” he added.
Three Indian movies — Assam-set “Bridge” by Kripal Kalita, “A Canine And His Man” by Siddharth Tripathy and Ganesh Vinayakan’s “Thaen” — had been nominated within the Worldwide competitors line up, which consisted 15 options from throughout the globe.
Solely “Bridge”, nevertheless, managed to take dwelling the ‘Particular Point out’ honour.
Veteran actor Zeenat Aman and actor-politician Ravi Kishan had been the visitors of honour on the ceremony held at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium.
Aman, 69, lauded the competition for managing to ask cinema expertise from the world over even in its slimmed down avatar.
“As we journey in the direction of the put up pandemic world, a glimpse of it may be felt at present with this glorious gathering of movie lovers. I’m sure all of the movies chosen are backed with immense hope for a world with higher understanding in the direction of a number of points, cultures, society or a person unit,” she stated.
Union minister and singer Babul Supriyo and veteran actor Biswajit Chatterjee, who was conferred the ‘’Indian Persona of the 12 months’’ award at IFFI, had been additionally in attendence together with Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Goa governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
Sawant lauded the efforts of everybody for making IFFI a hit at a time when many movie festivals had been known as of on account of COVID-19.
“I’ve full religion that the following version of the competition will probably be higher than this. I thank our Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, our Data and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar ji. No movie festivals had been held due to the pandemic, however we took the lead and ran it efficiently in a hybrid method,” he stated.
A complete of 224 movies had been screened beneath totally different sections on the 51st version of the competition which was pushed by two months from its unique November present.
The hybrid-mode competition organised on-line streaming of masterclasses by filmmakers Shekhar Kapur, Chaitanya Tamhane and Subhash Ghai.
Other than the opening and shutting ceremony, which was stay telecast, few World Panorama movies had been additionally streamed on-line.
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s “One other Spherical” opened the competition, whereas Japanese historic drama “Spouse of a Spy” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa was the closing movie.
The nine-day competition was performed collectively by the Directorate of Movie Festivals (beneath Ministry of Data and Broadcasting) and Goa authorities.
