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SALONICCO 2018 Premi

Ray & Liz vince il Golden Alexander di Salonicco

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- Il memoriale di Richard Billingham ha vinto il primo premio, mentre Eva Trobisch e Phuttiphong Aroonpheng si sono aggiudicati gli altri riconoscimenti principali del festival

Ray & Liz vince il Golden Alexander di Salonicco
Marisha Triantafyllidou con il suo premio alla miglior attrice per la sua performance in Her Job (© Ververidis Vasilis/Motionteam)

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British photographer, artist and director Richard Billingham’s debut feature, Ray & Liz [+leggi anche:
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, has won the “Theo Angelopoulos” Golden Alexander for Best Feature Film at the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which ran from 1-11 November. The prizes were given out yesterday at the closing-night ceremony, held in the Olympion Theatre.

The international jury, comprising the director of the EYE Filmmuseum, Sandra den Hamer, Romanian director Radu Jude, Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed-Arya (Simin Motamed), Spanish composer Alfonso de Vilallonga and the director of the Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Syrago Tsiara, handed the €8,000 prize to the British drama, which serves as a creative memoir of Billingham’s childhood during the Thatcher era.

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The second award, the Silver Alexander, was bestowed upon Eva Trobisch’s first feature, All Good [+leggi anche:
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, a drama that follows a woman trying to deny the assault she has fallen victim to. For that performance, leading actress Aenne Schwarz received the Best Actress Award, sharing it with Marisha Triantafyllidou for the Greek female-driven drama Her Job [+leggi anche:
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, directed by Nikos Labôt. The Best Actor Award was bestowed upon Danish thesp Jakob Cedergren for his role in Gustav Möller’s The Guilty [+leggi anche:
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, with the film also being voted as the audience’s favourite.

The other big winner of the night was Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s debut feature, Manta Ray [+leggi anche:
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, with the Thai director and cinematographer receiving the Special Jury Award for Best Director. The film also picked up the Best Achievement Award for Nawarophaat Rungphiboonsophit’s cinematography, and the Human Values Award from the Hellenic Parliament TV channel.

Finally, the jury handed out two Special Mentions: one to Tribeca winner Smuggling Hendrix [+leggi anche:
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by Cypriot debutant Marios Piperides and another to Socrates by Alex Moratto, which also scooped the independent prize for the best LGBTQI-themed film, the Mermaid Award.

The Greek Film Centre (GFC) crowned Steve Krikris’ debut, The Waiter [+leggi anche:
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, with two awards, one for Best Greek Debut, accompanied by €5,000 in cash, plus the newly introduced Best Location Award from the Hellenic Film Commission, worth €1,500, which went to the film’s location manager, Dimitris Halkiadakis. The GFC also sponsored the Best Virtual Reality Award, valued at €3,000, which was bestowed upon Battlescar by Nico Casavecchia and Μartin Allais.

In the Greek Film Festival 2018 section, Pause [+leggi anche:
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 by Tonia Mishiali snagged the FIPRESCI Award, while Angelos Frantzis’ Still River [+leggi anche:
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 received the Greek Film Critics’ Association Award.

Here is the complete list of winners at the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival:

Best Feature Film Award - “Theo Angelopoulos” Golden Alexander
Ray & Liz [+leggi anche:
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- Richard Billingham (UK)

Special Jury Award - Silver Alexander
All Good [+leggi anche:
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 - Eva Trobisch (Germany)

Special Jury Award for Best Director - Bronze Alexander
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng - Manta Ray [+leggi anche:
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 (Thailand/France/China)

Best Actor Award
Jakob Cedergren - The Guilty [+leggi anche:
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(Denmark)

Best Actress Award (ex aequo)
Aenne Schwarz - All Good
Marisha Triantafyllidou - Her Job [+leggi anche:
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(Greece/France/Serbia)

Special Mentions
Smuggling Hendrix [+leggi anche:
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 - Marios Piperides (Cyprus/Germany/Greece)
Socrates - Alex Moratto (Brazil)

Best Artistic Achievement for Cinematography
Nawarophaat Rungphiboonsophit - Manta Ray

Virtual Reality Films Competition

Best Film
Battlescar - Nico Casavecchia, Μartin Allais (France/USA) 

FIPRESCI awards

Best Film in the International Competition
Sofia [+leggi anche:
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 - Meryem Benm’Barek (France/Qatar)

Best Film in the Greek Film Festival
Pause [+leggi anche:
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 - Tonia Mishiali (Cyprus/Greece)

Greek Film Centre Award
The Waiter [+leggi anche:
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- Steve Krikris (Greece)

Hellenic Film Commission Best Location Award
Dimitris Halkiadakis - The Waiter

Greek Film Critics Association Award
Still River [+leggi anche:
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 - Angelos Frantzis (Greece/France/Latvia)

Human Values Award
Manta Ray - Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Mermaid Award
Socrates
 - Alex Moratto

WIFT Award
Touch Me Not
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 - Adina Pintilie (Romania/Germany/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/France)

Youth jury awards

Best Feature Film Award
The Right Pocket of the Robe [+leggi anche:
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 - Yiannis Lapatas (Greece)

Special Youth Jury Award
Scopophilia [+leggi anche:
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- Natalia Lampropoulou, Ilektra Aggeletopoulou (Greece)

Fischer audience awards

International Competition Award
The Guilty - Gustav Möller

Greek Film Festival – Michael Cacoyannis Award
Refuge II: The Ice Path - Christos Nikoleris (Greece)

Balkan Survey Award
Butterflies
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- Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey)

Open Horizons Award
A Twelve-Year Night [+leggi anche:
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 - Álvaro Brechner (Spain/Argentina/France)

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