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Arri CineVision
And The Winners Are: LE HAVRE and TYRANNOSAUR
This year's ARRI and CineVision award winners
Director Paddy Considine said thanks per video
The ARRI Award for best
international film (and €30,000 prize money) went Aki Kaurismäki
for LE HAVRE, which is also the closing night film of the 29th
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN. Actors André Wilms and Blondin Miguel accepted
the prize on behalf of Kaurismäki and will be on hand Saturday, the
2nd of July, at two screenings: 7:30 pm (sold out!) and 10:30
pm.
The CineVision Award for best international film by an
emerging director (and €12,000 prize money) sponsored by the DZ
Bank, went to the English film TYRANNOSAUR. The director, Paddy
Considine, acted in THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM and the upcoming Wiedemann
& Berg projekt with Jeremy Leven, GIRL ON A BICYCLE. Considine
is shooting in the UK but sent his thanks by video.
The award ceremony ended with Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani
receiving the Audi-sponsored CineMerit Award for his extraordinary
contributions to motion pictures as an art form. Georgian director
and former student of Iosseliani's, Dito Tsintsadze, was the
laudatory speaker.
