The Rome Film Festival drops
its main competition section (THR).
At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's
main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.
«Beasts of No Nation» was screened in
the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Marcello Mastroianni Award.
Not exact matches
The
main competition needed something outrageous to zap it from its slough, and it came courtesy of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which had
sections of the audience energetically booing the screen.
A slot in the Un Certain Regard
section seems like a better bet than the
main competition, but you never know.
The film played in the Un Certain Regard
section (but should have been in the
main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.
The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the
main competition to follow some of the other
sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.
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