Sentences with phrase «mainstream film in competition»
Not exact matches
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.
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The film is a sweet but slipshod effort that hardly represents the director's strongest work; with several more deserving films in competition going unawarded, its selection feels like a nod to the more mainstream contingent of the competition.