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VENICE DAYS MOVIES KEEP ON WINNING PRIZES
21/02/2007
Movies selected for the third edition of Venice Days – Giornate degli Autori, continue to receive acknowledgments and recognition all over Europe, as several prizes and awards prove.
At the Amiens Film Festival, held in France last November, Rêves de poussière by Laurent Salgues, won the Jury special Award and obtained a special mention for the Prix SIGNIS.
In December it was Daniel Sànchez Arevalo’s Azul Oscuro Casi Negro turn; the film won the Best Prix 2006 for Best Eurasian Film at the Tallin Black Nights Film Festival. In Tallin the film has also obtained a special mention for the FICC Jury Award.
Last month the same film, in competition at the Festival of Angers, won the Prize of the Audience (consisting also in 20.000 euro for advertising and promotion and in 1.500 euro to the director offered by GAN foundation), as well as the Prize "Jean Carmet" for best actor, awarded to Quim Gutierrez.
Khadak, the film by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodward, winner of the Prize Luigi de Laurentiis as best debut of the Mostra del Cinema of Venice, has been honored by the Minister of Culture of Belgium with the Award of Flemish Culture 2006 for cinema during a ceremony held at the Opéra flamand in Gand.