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by Cleo Barnard I see buildings falling like lightning won the best film prize in the Progressive Cinema competition at the Rome Film Fest, which ended today (October 24).
Barnard’s Birmingham drama follows a group of childhood friends in their 30s.e Birthdays who are forced to face a life where their hopes and dreams are not realized. It previously won the People’s Choice Award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, where it had its world premiere.
One of the main actors of the film, Anthony Boyle, shared the best actor prize in Rome for his role. I see buildings falling like lightning together with Paolo Pieroboni for an Italian noir drama Brianza.
Rome’s Progressive Film Competition awarded the top jury prize to a prison drama Wilson included Life and Death By Tim Blake Nelson. Amanda Seyfried stars as an English teacher stuck in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum security prison in Oklahoma and forms a close bond with a charismatic inmate in her class.
The best screenplay prize went to Abia Castillo, Diego Raba and Diego Luna for the migrant ash (Ash in the mouth), directed by Luna.
The best director prize was given to Rafiki Faryala for that congo boy which also shared the festival’s Audience Award with a documentary set in Nepal Mustang By Kasia Smutniak.
Victoria Luengo was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the Spanish heist thriller Saints. The special prize of the competition jury was awarded to the Al Maula family I didn’t sleep yesterday which It concerns a Palestinian family that was forced to flee due to a blood feud with another family from another tribe in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.
The jury of the Progressive Film Competition was chaired by Polish director and screenwriter Jan Komasa, who was joined by actor and producer Alice Braga; Canadian-Jordanian actress and poet Saja Kilani of Palestinian descent; Spanish screenwriter, director and editor Carlos Marquez-Marset and Italian-American director and screenwriter Alessio Rigo de Rigi.
Meanwhile, the Rome Film Fest’s best first feature prize went to him Clementine orange by Swedish filmmaker Lisa Forslund, whose world premiere took place in the Freestyle section of the festival. The film focuses on a young woman who falls in love with an inmate whose letters and photographs fuel fantasies of dangerous, forbidden love.
A special mention was given to the debut feature River train Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. by Vinale, who also played in the freestyle section.
The first feature jury was chaired by Italian screenwriter and director Ludovica Rumpoldi, who was joined by French director Pauline Loques and Romanian writer, director and producer Corneliu Porumboiu.
The documentary prize of the festival was awarded Into Jaws Of The Ogre by Mahsa Karampur, and it was a special mention Russian winter By Patrick Chiha. Both documentaries played in Rome’s Special Screenings section.
The documentary jury was chaired by Italian director Roberto Minervini, who was joined by Spanish producer Andrea Queralt and Argentinian-British Jessica Sarah Rinland.
The Banca Ifis Music Award of Rome went to Nicola Piovan, and the Gillo Pontecorvo Award went to Emmanuel Mare. our salvation.
During the festival, Rome presented its Industry Lifetime Achievement Award to British producer Tessa Ross, Lifetime Achievement Awards to Javier Bardem and Julianne Moore, and its Progressive Lifetime Achievement Award to Anthony Ippolito.
82238 tickets and 4651 accreditations were sold at the festival. He showed 194 films at 527 screenings.
