“Happiest Day” wins best in’l film honor at Zurich FestOctober 3, 2016 - 11:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Juho Kuosmanen's The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki has won the best international film honor at this year's Zurich Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The black-and-white drama about the build up to the 1962 world featherweight championship match —between Finish country baker Olli Maki and U.S. titleholder Davey Moore —marks an impressive debut for Kuosmanen. The feature won the Un Certain Regard prize in Cannes on its debut this year and has been picked to represent Finland in the 2017 Oscar race for best foreign-language film. Zurich's best documentary honor went to Mrs B., A North Korean Woman, the second feature from French-educated, Seoul-based documentarian Jero Yun. Compiled from footage shot over three years, the movie chronicles the disillusionment of a North Korean defector who goes from being a people smuggler to life as a lowly office janitor in Seoul. The prize for best German-language feature went to Hidden Reserves from Austrian director Valentin Hitz. The dystopian vision imagines a future Vienna in which people no longer have a right to die but are kept artificially alive until they are no longer physically or mentally useful for the economy. Clemens Schick stars as “death insurance” salesman Vincent Baumann. The emerging Swiss talent award for best Swiss film in the Zurich line-up when to Jan Gassmann's Europe, She Loves, a look at down-and-out twenty somethings in modern-day Europe. 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 | Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. |