‘Green Border’ Wins Rotterdam Audience Award

Environment-friendly Boundary, Agnieszka Holland’s painful story of evacuees captured in the woody limit in between Belarus and Poland, won the Audience Award at this year’s Rotterdam Movie Event, which concluded Sunday.

Japanese supervisor Tanaka Toshihiko won Rotterdam’s sought after Tiger Award for ideal competitors movie for his launching Rei, a dramatization discovering human partnerships made virtually totally with an actors and team of mainly non-professionals and pupils. The Iranian dramatization The Old Bachelor from supervisor Oktay Baraheni won Rotterdam’s VPRO CinemaAward

The FIPRESCI Award, given out by global movie movie critics, mosted likely to Kiss Wagon from the Indian supervisor Midhun Murali.

Evaluated by the audience’s feedback, Rotterdam 2024 was a definite success, with the event reporting greater than a quarter of a million customers over its 11-day program, that included the testing of 424 movies and musician conversations with the similarity Oscar challenger Sandra Hüller (Composition of a Loss), Italian directing expert Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor) and popular song tale Debbie Harry.

“This edition we saw with great pleasure how our discoveries found their audiences,” claimed Rotterdam event supervisor Vanja Kaludjercic. “From the joy of our opening night to the excitement of welcoming superstars and cinematic giants, to witnessing the blossoming of future greats like the Tiger Award winner, there was a special atmosphere at the festival this edition. We take pride in making a program that foregrounds the unexpected and unique – and that challenges and enriches…As we look ahead, we see that our ideas and aspirations connect strongly with the audience, strengthening us for the years to come.”