Cannes: Garcia Bernal’s Pinochet drama “No” wins top prize at Directors FortnightMay 26, 2012 - 13:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Directors Fortnight section at Cannes has said yes to "No," Chilean director's Pablo Larrian's look at the referendum that ended Pinochet's reign in that country. On Friday, May 25 the film won the top prize at the Directors Fortnight, a section that runs concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival, TheWrap reported. Earlier this week, Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to the film, which stars Gael Garcia Bernal as an ad man working on the campaign to persuade votes to give Pinochet a no vote. Other winners include Merzak Allouache's "El taaib" and Noemie Lvovsky's "Camille redouble." Directors Fortnight awards a variety of prizes sponsored by different groups. Other films in this year's competition included Michel Gondry's "The We and I," Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers" and Rodney Ascher's "Room 237." 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 | Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Great success”: Pashinyan pleased with new border protocol Pashinyan has described the signing by Armenia and Azerbaijan of a protocol on delimitation in Tavush as “a great success”. Armenia, Azerbaijan sign protocol on demarcation coordinates Armenia’s government took on May 15 another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan. U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. |