Sengedorj Janchivdorj’s Silent Metropolis Driver received the Grand Prix for Greatest Movie at Tallinn Black Nights Movie Pageant (PÖFF), on a night when a number of awardees referenced ongoing international conflicts of their speeches.
Mongolian characteristic Silent Metropolis Driver, a PÖFF world premiere within the Official Choice Competitors, follows a hearse driver who tries to proper the world’s wrongs by serving to the daughter of a blind coffin maker.
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It’s the 13th characteristic for Mongolian director Sengedorj, and is produced by Ganbaatar Narantsetseg, Naranbat Bayasgalan and Daring Ganbat. The director and producer share the €20,000 award, whereas Munkhbat Shirnen additionally received the Greatest Manufacturing Design award for the movie.
The jury stated the “darkish fairy story took us abruptly. From the very first shot on, we felt the feeling of a movie breaking new floor.”
Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman received the Greatest Director prize with €5,000 grant for Pink Girl, about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple making an attempt to navigate the husband’s relationship with one other man.
When accepting the award, Bergman referred to as for an finish to the battle in Gaza. “What is absolutely vital for us proper now could be that our 101 hostages will probably be free and are available again house,” he stated, referring to the Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza since October 7, 2023. “And that the struggle will finish proper now.”
He was joined on stage by the movie’s screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, who echoed his phrases, saying crucial factor was “now we have 101 hostages in Gaza, please, please deliver them again.” The remarks have been acquired by a smattering of applause from the Tallinn viewers.
PÖFF was one in every of few festivals to award Israeli and Palestinian movies on the identical night, having earlier given the pre-announced Dennis Davidson Highlight Award to Farah Nabulsi’s UK-Palestine co-production The Trainer.
Nabulsi additionally spoke on the battle, saying the world is “at a vital juncture within the discourse, as Israel conducts a genocide, the crime of all crimes, as we communicate in Gaza.
“It takes a sure decency and ethical richness for a pageant and a bunch of individuals to come back collectively and shine a highlight on the creative expression of such an pressing and pertinent topic and place,” stated Nabulsi, who additionally acquired applause from the Tallinn viewers.
Additional awards
Elsewhere within the Official Choice Competitors, Turkish drama Empire Of The Rabbits, through which a younger boy should ‘go’ as disabled to earn a authorities incapacity grant, acquired each one of the best script award for writer-director Seyfettin Tokmak, and finest cinematography for Claudia Becerril Bulos.
Finnish actresses Elina Knihtila and Pirjo Lonka shared one of the best actress award for Teemu Nikki’s 100 Liters Of Gold, and supplied an emotional spotlight of the night when detailing their 40 years of friendship prior to creating the movie.
Within the First Characteristic Competitors, Steve Bache’s German characteristic No Canines Allowed, a drama about paedophilia through on-line grooming, took one of the best movie award. The jury famous “it’s made with absolute sensitivity and vulnerability…there are not any clichés right here; it’s a movie for each dad or mum who thinks they know what their youngsters are doing, typically on-line in their very own house.”
Lithuania-Estonia co-production The Southern Chronicles took one of the best Baltic movie prize within the Baltic Movie Competitors. Each that movie’s director Ignas Miskinis and finest Baltic director winner Laurynas Bareisa for Drowning Dry championed the collaborative nature of the Baltic states of their speeches.
Persevering with the political nature of the night, 96-year-old Georgian filmmaker Lana Gogoberidze, recipient of the pageant’s Lifetime Achievement award, stated the enlargement of the Soviet Union in her youth had an impact all through her life. “Now we’re in peril once more, and we actually want mates,” stated Gogoberidze, gesturing in the direction of Russian affect in her homeland and navy actions in Ukraine. “We take into account Estonia our biggest good friend. In the entire historical past of mankind, I don’t assume people created something higher than solidarity. Salvation comes with solidarity.”
The occasion closed with the announcement of Catalonia, the autonomous group inside Spain, as subsequent 12 months’s PÖFF ‘Nation in Focus’.
Trade@Tallinn & Baltic Occasion, the pageant’s skilled platform, handed out its awards on Friday, November 22, with a number of prizes going to initiatives about migration.
Tallinn Black Nights Movie Pageant 2024 awards
Official Choice Competitors
Grand Prix for finest movie – Silent Metropolis Driver (Mong) dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj
Greatest director – Nir Bergman for Pink Girl (Isr)
Greatest manufacturing design – Munkhbat Shirnen for Silent Metropolis Driver (Mong)
Greatest rating – Alyana Cabral, Moe Cabral for Some Nights I Really feel Like Strolling (Phi-It-Sing)
Greatest actress – ex aequo Pirjo Lonka, Elina Knihtila for 100 Liters Of Gold (Fin-It)
Greatest actor – Hyo Je Lee for The Loop (S Korea)
Greatest script – Seyfettin Tokmak for Empire Of The Rabbits (Tur-Mex-Cro)
Greatest cinematography – Claudia Becerril Bulos for Empire Of The Rabbits (Tur-Mex-Cro)
First Characteristic Competitors
Greatest movie – No Canines Allowed (Ger) dir. Steve Bache
Greatest director – Diego Figueroa for A Yard Of Jackals (Chile)
Jury Particular Prize for director – Edgardo Pistone for Ciao Bambino (It)
Jury Particular Prize for the forged – Mongrels (Can) dir. Jerome Yoo
Baltic Movie Competitors
Greatest movie – The Southern Chronicles (Lith-Est) dir. Ignas Miskinis
Greatest director – Laurynas Bareisa for Drowning Dry (Lith-Lat)
Rebels With A Trigger
Greatest movie – Protected Males (Ger) dir. Irene von Alberti
Greatest director – Ruiqi Lu for Contact Lens (China)
Quick movie – Extra Scenes (Ukr) dir. Romain Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk
Critics’ Picks
Greatest movie – The Brothers Kitaura (Jap) dir. Masaki Tsujino
Particular point out – Fishgirl (Ec) dir. Javier Cutrona
Greatest director – Dechen Roder for I, The Track (Bhu-Nor-It-Fr)
Doc@PÖFF
Greatest movie – The Watchman (Fr-Bel) dirs. Victoire Bonin, Lou de Pontavice
Particular jury prize – Black Gold (Por) dir. Takashi Sugimoto
Greatest cinematography – Linas Ziura for Murmuring Hearts (Lith-Fr-Nor)
JustFilm
Junior jury finest movie – Niko – Past The Northern Lights (Fin-Ger-Ire-Den) dir. Kari Juusonen
Youngsters’s jury finest movie – I By chance Wrote A E-book (Hun-Neth) dir. Nora Lakos
Youth jury finest movie – Kontra (Den) dir. Jonas Risvig
Younger filmmakers jury – 40 Days For Inge (Est) dir. Betra Kasper
ECFA Award jury – Dwelling Giant (Cze-Fr-Slovakia) dir. Kristina Dufkova
Worldwide jury – Kontra (Den) dir. Jonas Risvig
Viewers Award – Pyre (Ind) dir. Vinod Kapri
Dennis Davidson award – The Trainer (UK-Qat-Pal) Farah Nabulsi
Fipresci award – Mongrels (Can) dir. Jerome Yoo
Lifetime Achievement Award – Lana Gogoberidze
