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The winners of the "Eastern Promises" of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – the name of the industry – were revealed last night at the annual festival of industry . open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East, was won the co-production Lebanon / France / Germany All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects launched during the event.
"The project is based on a true story," explained Ghossein speaking to Screen after the announcement of the award. "It takes place during the 2006 war in Lebanon and concerns a group of civilians who are trapped in a house on the first floor when Israeli soldiers enter the second floor."
The Work in Progress Award 2018, d & # 39; a total value of 100,000 euros ($ 116,362), includes postproduction services at the UPP and Soundsquare and a price of 10,000 euros ($ 11,636) Barrandov Studio
This year, for the first time Once upon a time, Karlovy Vary's current works included Middle Eastern films.
Ghossein adds: "Winning is great because I will finally be able to deliver the project as we need to work on the post- production with things such as sound and the opportunity to work with companies here is a great achievement. "
The jury, composed of the director of European cinema Matthijs Wouter Knol, Bulgarian producer and director Rossitsa Valkanova and Rickard Olsson of Picture Tree International in Sweden, said:" We hope this film will impress and will reach the public because it will overcome the peculiarities of a military conflict, which implies questions of existential importance with a bitter smile . "
Other prizes
price docs in progress, presented at Karlovy Vary for the first time, went to The Projectionist a Ukraine / Germany / Poland project headed by Yuriy Shylov, with a special mention going to the Polish project Little Poland . There were 10 projects in the global selection.
"This is the story of an elderly projectionist who accidentally burns his cinema and is forced to retire," said producer Olha Beskhmelnytsina. "We have been working on this project for years and we will be releasing the film in the autumn We did not expect to win!"
Tanja Georgieva, CEO and Producer at Elemag Pictures Noemi Schory producer and director and founder of the Documentary Filmmakers Forum, Israel and Shane Smith director of programming at HotDocs, Canada were part of the jury that gave the film a cash prize of 5000 € (5815 $), offered by KVIFF
award, awarded to films that push the boundaries of traditional cinema, went to Adele Tulli Normal (Italy / Sweden), which focuses on gender norms in the world. Contemporary Italy. The prize has a value of 50 000 € (58 204 $).
"This was the most convincing pitch and the images fit perfectly in the introduction," said the jury, consisting of David Kořínek, the director, co-founder of Supermedia Studio at the Czech Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Dorien van de Pas of the Netherlands Film Fund and Christoph Terhechte the artistic director of the International Film Festival of Marrakech
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