Sure In Heaven, the function debut of director Huo Xin, received the highest prize on the 2024 Rome Movie Pageant, with the awards unveiled on the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 26.
The home abuse drama received finest movie within the Progressive Cinema Competitors, the competition’s aggressive strand, and in addition shared the most effective first function award ex aequo with Edgardo Pistone’s Ciao Bambino.
Sure In Heaven premiered at Toronto, and encompasses a starry forged together with Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan. Director Huo is a veteran scriptwriter whose credit embody Bathe, Kung Fu Hustle, Sunflower and The Monkey King. Redience is dealing with gross sales on the movie.
Thriller La Nuit Se Traîne from Belgium’s Michiel Blanchart, a few locksmith who will get dragged into the lifetime of a mob boss, received the grand jury prize. Morrisa Maltz received finest director for South Dakota-set drama Jazzy that includes Lily Gladstone.
The most effective actor prize went to Elio Germano for taking part in communist politican Enrico Berlinguer in The Grand Ambition. Ángela Molina received finest actress for Carlos Marquès-Marcet’s They Will Be Mud, a few ladies with an incurable mind tumour who takes a final journey to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.
Chris Andrews received finest screenplay for sheep-farming revenge drama Convey Them Down, starring Barry Keoghan.
Eran Riklis’ Studying Lolita In Tehran was one other of the night time’s large winners. The difference of Azar Nafisi’s memoir, a few professor returning to her residence nation of Iran through the 1978 revolution, received the viewers award and a particular jury prize for its forged, led by Golshifteh Farahani.
The jury for the principle competitors strand was chaired by director Pablo Trapero and in addition included editor Francesca Calvelli, French actress Laetitia Casta, UK producer Gail Egan, and author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane.
Italian director and screenwriter Francesca Comencini led the primary function jury, that additionally included producer, composer and author Kai li Peng and Anatomy Of A Fall actor Antoine Reinartz.
