Sengedorj Janchivdorj’s Silent Metropolis Driver gained the Grand Prix for Finest Movie at Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition (PÖFF), on a night when a number of awardees referenced ongoing international conflicts of their speeches.
Mongolian function Silent Metropolis Driver, a PÖFF world premiere within the Official Choice Competitors, follows a hearse driver who tries to proper the world’s wrongs by serving to the daughter of a blind coffin maker.
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It’s the 13th function for Mongolian director Sengedorj, and is produced by Ganbaatar Narantsetseg, Naranbat Bayasgalan and Daring Ganbat. The director and producer share the €20,000 award, whereas Munkhbat Shirnen additionally gained the Finest Manufacturing Design award for the movie.
The jury stated the “darkish fairy story took us unexpectedly. From the very first shot on, we felt the feeling of a movie breaking new floor.”
Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman gained the Finest Director prize with €5,000 grant for Pink Girl, about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple attempting to navigate the husband’s relationship with one other man.
When accepting the award, Bergman referred to as for an finish to the battle in Gaza. “What is absolutely necessary for us proper now could be that our 101 hostages might be free and are available again residence,” he stated, referring to the Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza since October 7, 2023. “And that the struggle will finish proper now.”
He was joined on stage by the movie’s screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, who echoed his phrases, saying crucial factor was “we have now 101 hostages in Gaza, please, please convey them again.” The remarks have been obtained by a smattering of applause from the Tallinn viewers.
PÖFF was one in all few festivals to award Israeli and Palestinian movies on the identical night, having earlier given the pre-announced Dennis Davidson Highlight Award to Farah Nabulsi’s UK-Palestine co-production The Instructor.
Nabulsi additionally spoke on the battle, saying the world is “at a vital juncture within the discourse, as Israel conducts a genocide, the crime of all crimes, as we communicate in Gaza.
“It takes a sure decency and ethical richness for a competition and a gaggle of individuals to come back collectively and shine a highlight on the inventive expression of such an pressing and pertinent topic and place,” stated Nabulsi, who additionally obtained applause from the Tallinn viewers.
Additional awards
Elsewhere within the Official Choice Competitors, Turkish drama Empire Of The Rabbits, during which a younger boy should ‘go’ as disabled to earn a authorities incapacity grant, obtained each the most effective script award for writer-director Seyfettin Tokmak, and greatest cinematography for Claudia Becerril Bulos.
Finnish actresses Elina Knihtila and Pirjo Lonka shared the most effective actress award for Teemu Nikki’s 100 Liters Of Gold, and offered an emotional spotlight of the night when detailing their 40 years of friendship prior to creating the movie.
Within the First Function Competitors, Steve Bache’s German function No Canine Allowed, a drama about paedophilia through on-line grooming, took the most effective movie award. The jury famous “it’s made with absolute sensitivity and vulnerability…there aren’t any clichés right here; it’s a movie for each mother or father who thinks they know what their kids are doing, usually on-line in their very own residence.”
Lithuania-Estonia co-production The Southern Chronicles took the most effective Baltic movie prize within the Baltic Movie Competitors. Each that movie’s director Ignas Miskinis and greatest Baltic director winner Laurynas Bareisa for Drowning Dry championed the collaborative nature of the Baltic states of their speeches.
Persevering with the political nature of the night, 96-year-old Georgian filmmaker Lana Gogoberidze, recipient of the competition’s Lifetime Achievement award, stated the growth of the Soviet Union in her youth had an impact all through her life. “Now we’re at risk once more, and we actually want pals,” stated Gogoberidze, gesturing in direction of Russian affect in her homeland and navy actions in Ukraine. “We contemplate Estonia our biggest pal. In the entire historical past of mankind, I don’t suppose people created something higher than solidarity. Salvation comes with solidarity.”
The occasion closed with the announcement of Catalonia, the autonomous group inside Spain, as subsequent 12 months’s PÖFF ‘Nation in Focus’.
Trade@Tallinn & Baltic Occasion, the competition’s skilled platform, handed out its awards on Friday, November 22, with a number of prizes going to tasks about migration.
Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition 2024 awards
Official Choice Competitors
Grand Prix for greatest movie – Silent Metropolis Driver (Mong) dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj
Finest director – Nir Bergman for Pink Girl (Isr)
Finest manufacturing design – Munkhbat Shirnen for Silent Metropolis Driver (Mong)
Finest rating – Alyana Cabral, Moe Cabral for Some Nights I Really feel Like Strolling (Phi-It-Sing)
Finest actress – ex aequo Pirjo Lonka, Elina Knihtila for 100 Liters Of Gold (Fin-It)
Finest actor – Hyo Je Lee for The Loop (S Korea)
Finest script – Seyfettin Tokmak for Empire Of The Rabbits (Tur-Mex-Cro)
Finest cinematography – Claudia Becerril Bulos for Empire Of The Rabbits (Tur-Mex-Cro)
First Function Competitors
Finest movie – No Canine Allowed (Ger) dir. Steve Bache
Finest director – Diego Figueroa for A Yard Of Jackals (Chile)
Jury Particular Prize for director – Edgardo Pistone for Ciao Bambino (It)
Jury Particular Prize for the forged – Mongrels (Can) dir. Jerome Yoo
Baltic Movie Competitors
Finest movie – The Southern Chronicles (Lith-Est) dir. Ignas Miskinis
Finest director – Laurynas Bareisa for Drowning Dry (Lith-Lat)
Rebels With A Trigger
Finest movie – Protected Males (Ger) dir. Irene von Alberti
Finest director – Ruiqi Lu for Contact Lens (China)
Brief movie – Extra Scenes (Ukr) dir. Romain Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk
Critics’ Picks
Finest movie – The Brothers Kitaura (Jap) dir. Masaki Tsujino
Particular point out – Fishgirl (Ec) dir. Javier Cutrona
Finest director – Dechen Roder for I, The Music (Bhu-Nor-It-Fr)
Doc@PÖFF
Finest movie – The Watchman (Fr-Bel) dirs. Victoire Bonin, Lou de Pontavice
Particular jury prize – Black Gold (Por) dir. Takashi Sugimoto
Finest cinematography – Linas Ziura for Murmuring Hearts (Lith-Fr-Nor)
JustFilm
Junior jury greatest movie – Niko – Past The Northern Lights (Fin-Ger-Ire-Den) dir. Kari Juusonen
Youngsters’s jury greatest movie – I Unintentionally Wrote A Guide (Hun-Neth) dir. Nora Lakos
Youth jury greatest movie – Kontra (Den) dir. Jonas Risvig
Younger filmmakers jury – 40 Days For Inge (Est) dir. Betra Kasper
ECFA Award jury – Dwelling Massive (Cze-Fr-Slovakia) dir. Kristina Dufkova
Worldwide jury – Kontra (Den) dir. Jonas Risvig
Viewers Award – Pyre (Ind) dir. Vinod Kapri
Dennis Davidson award – The Instructor (UK-Qat-Pal) Farah Nabulsi
Fipresci award – Mongrels (Can) dir. Jerome Yoo
Lifetime Achievement Award – Lana Gogoberidze
