Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams’ "Certain Women" wins London FestOctober 17, 2016 - 16:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The biggest prize at this year's London Film Festival went to "Certain Women" directed by Kelly Reichardt. The drama starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Jared Harris took home the coveted best feature film at the annual event, AceShowbiz reports. Steve McQueen was a special honoree at the gala. The director received the British Film Institute Fellowship from Michael Fassbender who starred in all three of the filmmaker's movies, "Hunger", "Shame" and "12 Years a Slave". "There's only two things I'm sure about: One, I'm black ... Two, I'm a Londoner," the helmer said. "I had freedom because society allowed me to have that freedom. It seems that that freedom is being slowly eradicated. It's our job to fight to keep those doors open." French director Julia Ducournau's "Raw" won best first feature. Iranian director Mehrdad Oskouei's portrait of young inmates, "Starless Dreams" was named best documentary. Syrian photographer Issa Touma's "9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo" won best short film. 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 | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |