“Hide and Seek” wins best Brit pic prize at Edinburgh FestJune 28, 2014 - 18:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Joanna Coates’ “Hide and Seek” which looks at a modern attempt at living a utopian ideal, won the Michael Powell Award for best British feature film at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on Friday. The pic received its world premiere at the festival, Variety said. The film, which stars Josh O’Connor, Hannah Arterton, Rea Mole, Daniel Metz and Joe Banks, is set in an English country house, where four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. Coates said: “We set out to make a film that uses beauty and playfulness to speak about our deeper feelings and contemporary dilemmas.” The jury, chaired by director Amos Gitai, said it found the film to be “very innovative in form and in which all those involved, from the director to the cinematographer and the actors, we believe to be very talented.” The jury added that “the younger generation have a right to re-challenge and re-configure what cinema means to them.” The award for performance in a British feature film went to Eddie Marsan for Uberto Pasolini’s “Still Life,” which centers on a lonely city hall worker whose job it is to find the relatives and friends of the recently deceased. A special commendation went to Zoe Telford for her performance in “Greyhawk.” The award for international feature film was picked up by Midi Z’s “Ice Poison.” The pic, which is a Taiwan-Myanmar co-production, stars Patty Wu and Wang Hsing-Hong. The pic follows Sanmei, a young woman who has left her native Myanmar to endure an arranged marriage in China. Returning to her hometown, she takes a job as a drug runner and persuades a naive young man to become her driver. The international jury, which was chaired by filmmaker, actor and writer Niki Karimi, said the award was given for the film’s “meticulously observed and perfectly crafted look at economic despair in the rural and developing landscape of Myanmar, the temptation of easy money and the consequence of ruinous choices… and for the assured tone and quiet melancholy of this re-telling of the fall from Eden.” Farida Pacha’s “My Name Is Salt” took the award for documentary feature film. The student critics’ jury award was awarded to Dietrich Brueggemann’s “Stations of the Cross.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel. Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |