NEW DELHI -- Taiwan's The Wall, directed by Lin Chih Ju, bagged the Golden Peacock award Monday night as the 38th International Film Festival of India in Goa came to its conclusion.
The film, which also won a cash price of 1 million rupees ($25,000), is based on Taiwan's anti-communist violence of the 1950s.
IFFI was organized by the New Delhi-based Directorate of Film Festivals and the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, in collaboration with the Government of Goa. It opened Nov. 23 with Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 2007 Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days.
Other winners included Bangladesh's On the Wings of Dreams, which jointly shared the Silver Peacock award with Mexico's "More Than Anything in the World." The best director Silver Peacock went to Thailand's Pongpat Wachirabunjong for Me Myself.
The film, which also won a cash price of 1 million rupees ($25,000), is based on Taiwan's anti-communist violence of the 1950s.
IFFI was organized by the New Delhi-based Directorate of Film Festivals and the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, in collaboration with the Government of Goa. It opened Nov. 23 with Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 2007 Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days.
Other winners included Bangladesh's On the Wings of Dreams, which jointly shared the Silver Peacock award with Mexico's "More Than Anything in the World." The best director Silver Peacock went to Thailand's Pongpat Wachirabunjong for Me Myself.
- 12/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The animated film "Persepolis", from France, Denys Arcand's "Days of Darkness" from Canada, Johnnie To's "Exiled" from Hong Kong and Cristian Mungiu's Palm d'Or winner "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" are among the 63 films that have qualified for Oscar consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' foreign language film category.
The record number of 63 entries include first-time submissions from Azerbaijan (Farid Gumbatov's "Caucasia") and Ireland (Tom Collins' "Kings").
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22, and the Oscars will be handed out Feb. 24.
The complete list follows:
Argentina, "XXY", Lucia Puenzo, director; Australia, "The Home Song Stories", Tony Ayres; Austria, "The Counterfeiters", Stefan Ruzowitzky; Azerbaijan, "Caucasia", Farid Gumbatov; Bangladesh, "On the Wings of Dreams", Golam Rabbany, Biplob; Belgium, "Ben X", Nic Balthazar; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "It's Hard to Be Nice", Srdan Vuletic; Brazil, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," Cao Hamburger; and Bulgaria, "Warden of the Dead", Ilian Simeonov.
Canada, "Days of Darkness", Denys Arcand; Chile, "Padre Nuestro", Rodrigo Sepulveda; China, "The Knot", Yin Li; Colombia, "Satanas", Andi Baiz; Croatia, "Armin", Ognjen Svilicic; Cuba, "The Silly Age", Pavel Giroud; Czech Republic, "I Served the King of England", Jiri Menzel, director; Denmark, "The Art of Crying", Peter Schonau Fog; Egypt, "In the Heliopolis Flat", Mohamed Khan; and Estonia, "The Class", Ilmar Raag.
The record number of 63 entries include first-time submissions from Azerbaijan (Farid Gumbatov's "Caucasia") and Ireland (Tom Collins' "Kings").
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22, and the Oscars will be handed out Feb. 24.
The complete list follows:
Argentina, "XXY", Lucia Puenzo, director; Australia, "The Home Song Stories", Tony Ayres; Austria, "The Counterfeiters", Stefan Ruzowitzky; Azerbaijan, "Caucasia", Farid Gumbatov; Bangladesh, "On the Wings of Dreams", Golam Rabbany, Biplob; Belgium, "Ben X", Nic Balthazar; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "It's Hard to Be Nice", Srdan Vuletic; Brazil, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," Cao Hamburger; and Bulgaria, "Warden of the Dead", Ilian Simeonov.
Canada, "Days of Darkness", Denys Arcand; Chile, "Padre Nuestro", Rodrigo Sepulveda; China, "The Knot", Yin Li; Colombia, "Satanas", Andi Baiz; Croatia, "Armin", Ognjen Svilicic; Cuba, "The Silly Age", Pavel Giroud; Czech Republic, "I Served the King of England", Jiri Menzel, director; Denmark, "The Art of Crying", Peter Schonau Fog; Egypt, "In the Heliopolis Flat", Mohamed Khan; and Estonia, "The Class", Ilmar Raag.
- 10/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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