23rd Seville European Film Festival Announces Winners: Romania's 'You Don't Belong Here' Takes Golden Giraldillo for Best Film
The 23rd Seville European Film Festival announced its winners on Saturday, November 14, in Seville, Spain, closing an edition that ran from November 6 to 14. The Golden Giraldillo for Best Film in the Official Selection went to 'You Don't Belong Here,' written and directed by Romanian filmmaker Florin Șerban. The film had already won four awards at Locarno, including the Golden Leopard, and Șerban's 2010 directorial debut, 'If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,' took a Grand Prix at the Berlinale. 'You Don't Belong Here' turns on a respected surgeon who discovers his son helped beat a Roma man to death, and Bogdan Ionescu also won Best Art Direction for the film at Seville.
The Grand Jury Award went to 'Falling House' by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei, written with Amir Mohammad Abdi, which bowed in the Venice Horizons section; Evelyn Rack and Emad Khodabakhsh also won Best Editing for the film. The Puerta América Award went to 'Adult Supervision,' written and directed by Swedish author Alex Schulman, which is Sweden's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; Gustaf Skarsgård, Fares Fares and Linus Wahlgren shared the Best Actor prize for the film. A Special Mention in the same award went to 'Rose' by Markus Schleinzer, co-written with Alexander Brom, Austria's Oscar submission.
Best Direction went to Italy's Tommaso Landucci for 'Children of the Monkey.' Best Screenplay went to Michel Gaztambide and Alejandro Hernández for 'El Director,' directed by Dani de la Orden, the festival's biggest world premiere, based on former El Mundo editor-in-chief David Jiménez's autobiographical non-fiction book. Melania Cruz won Best Actress for 'Tralovento,' directed by Eloy Domínguez Serén. Best Cinematography went to Noé Bach for Nepal's submission 'Elephants in the Fog,' directed by Abinash Bikram Shah. The Audience Award for Best Film in the EFA Selection went to 'Coward,' by Lukas Dhont, written with Angelo Tijssens. This year's jury president was AMPAS vice president and screenwriter Howard A. Rodman, and the festival's industry umbrella, Frame, partnered with Spain's ICAA film agency to launch Insula, a screenplay market featuring 58 titles.
Source: Seville European Film Festival
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Photo: 图中是罗马尼亚导演Florin Șerban在第79届洛迦诺电影节上的肖像。Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Kalai Ramu
