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Another Round, the Danish star’s 2020 drama (about four teachers striving to get themselves out of a middle-aged rut via alcohol) that just won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. It’s the latest in a string of triumphs for the 55-year-old Copenhagen native, who over the past fifteen years has moved freely between daring and unconventional dramas abroad, and franchise tentpoles here in the States. Whether dealing drugs in Nicolas Winding Refn’s
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Ostrov â Lost Island is not lost on Hot Docs, winning the Best International Feature Documentary Award
Four Seasons in a Day, were also noticed at the Canadian gathering
Laurent Stoop and Svetlana Rodina accepting their Best International Feature Documentary Award for
Ostrov â Lost Island during the online awards ceremony
Itâs a wrap â the 28
th edition of North Americaâs largest documentary festival, Hot Docs, concluded on 9 May with 11 awards and CAD 67,000 (roughly â¬45,500) presented to Canadian and international filmmakers during an online ceremony. On the European front,
Svetlana Rodina and
Laurent Stoop, was named Best International Feature Documentary. Described by Cineuropa as a story âbetween utopia and dystopia, speaking of modern-day Russia torn between nostalgia and harsh realityâ, and focusing on the people living on the titular fishing island in the Caspian Sea, it led jurors
It was almost spring last year, and Marian Luntz was hearing all the buzz from the big international winter film festivals. Sydney. Rotterdam. Berlin. As longtime film curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Luntz was doing what she does every year: tracking films she might like to program for the museum. MFAH was off to a strong 2020. They showed all of the nominated Oscar Shorts, as they do every year. âPeople turned out in droves,â Luntz recalled recently over coffee. And the museum did well with
63 Up, the latest documentary from Michael Apted (who died January 7 of this year).