The VIFF awards were announced on Thursday (media release) and the winner of the People’s Choice Award for Most Popular International Film is The Lives of Others, which I saw at TIFF and blogged about here. Briefly I thought the film lagged whenever the Wiesberg character was offscreen. I just thought that Sebastian Koch’s performance as Georg ( Read more... )

The Festival Internacional de cine de Donostia-San Sebastián just finished, and its award-winners are:

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Vickie at Moviepie Musings blogged that it seems unfair and suspicious that there were no ballots being collected at screenings on the final day of TIFF (Saturday the 17th). Here is my response ( Read more... )

The awards have been announced. I was hoping for Klaus Härö’s Mother of Mine to win something, but no such luck. I have not seen any of the winning films. The winners are:

Tsotsi

Look Both Ways

Sa-Kwa

Familia

The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico

C.R.A.Z.Y.

Big Girl

There’s a Flower in My PedalI haven’t typed in which film won which ( Read more... )