This year's Narrative
Grand Jury prize went to Ana Asensio's «Most Beautiful Island.»
In the World Cinema dramatic competition,
the grand jury prize went to «The Nile Hilton Incident,» while «I Dream in Another Language» landed the audience award.
Not exact matches
Thus, I can only vageuly speculate as to their merits, and report the other four main
prize winners: Joseph Madmony's Restoration received the
Grand Prix, the Special
Jury Prize was given to Martin Šulík's Gypsy, David Morse got Best Actor for his work in Collaborator, and Best Actress
went to Stine Fischer Christensen for Cracks in the Shell.
Bravo won the festival's short film
grand jury prize with her «Gregory
Go Boom» in 2014 and directed an episode of the Golden Globe winning television show «Atlanta.»
The film
went on to win both the
grand jury prize and audience award, a trend started 3 years ago with Fruitvale Station, then Whiplash, and then last year's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before
going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary
grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.
Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop
Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance
Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.
Palm d'Or
goes to Blue is the warmest color,
Grand Jury prize to Venus in Fur and Best Director to Passolini.
All the canines of Matteo Garrone's Dogman share the top
prize this year, with the
Grand Jury Prize going to the CGI - generated pink «fluffy puppies» of Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's Diamantino.
The festival's top
prize, the
Grand Jury Prize,
went to Desiree Akhavan's «The Miseducation of Cameron Post.»
Erratic or random would seem the more appropriate description when we get to this year's second
prize, or the
Grand Prix du
Jury, which
went to the youngest candidate, 27 - year old Quebecois, Xavier Dolan (pictured below), with a French opus adapted from a theatre piece called It's Only the End of the World.
Well
Go USA CEO Doris Pfardrescher had been tracking Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary for a while, finally grabbing rights to the film ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, picking up a film critics
prize there followed by the
Grand Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
In a big night for female filmmakers, the
jury grand prize award
went to Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska's Mug, «a film that explores bigotry in its story about a young man forced to undergo face transplant surgery after he is disfigured in an accident.»
The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the
Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and
went on to receive another 70
prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.