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Lights up Estonia |
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Black
Nights Film Festival
December 3 - 10 (Estonia)
On the heels of its win in Paris for the European
Film Awards, Lars von Trier's musical Dancer
in the Dark headed north to Estonia, where it won the Audience
Prize at the Black Nights. Drawing the largest crowds and winning
the Audience Award for best film, the film's success also affirms
the festival's Scandinavian film week as a niche with audiences. The
festival brings more new feature films to the Estonian public than
all regular distribution channels do in a year.
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| Ratcatcher
Lands Bratislava
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Bratislava
International Film Festival
December 1 - 9
Lynne Ramsay's first feature Ratcatcher
won the Grand Prix for the Best Film at the second annual International
Film Festival Bratislava. Held in the Slovak capital, the festival
is one of the premiere showcases for Central European film.
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| Cinemagic
2000 closes with Spotless Reputation |
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Cinemagic
Film Festival
November 30 - December 10 (Belfast)
The curtain fell on Cinemagic Sunday night with a Canadian film
scooping the top award for the second year running. Borderline
Normal, a film charting the tough journey from adolescence to
adulthood, found favour with the festival's children's jury. Just
ten days before, Festival Director Shona McCarthy had opened Cinemagic
by reaffirming her ambitions to make the Belfast festival 'the best
Children's Film Festival in the world'.
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| Betty
Tames the Black Lion |
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Noir
Film Festival
December 5 - 11 (Courmayer, Italy)
The international jury at this year's tenth annual edition was composed
of Roberto Citran, Abbas Kiarostami, Veronica Pivetti, John Ridley,
Adrian Wootton. They awarded the top prize, the Black Lion to Nurse
Betty by Neil LaBute, and praised the film because it could
"effectively blend moments of lighthearted comedy, gripping
terror and brilliant characterizations, all guided by sure-footed
and stylish direction."
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