During the 2004 Awards Ceremony of the
International Film Festival Rotterdam today, VPRO Tiger Awards were granted to
Bu Jian (
The Missing), a minimalist parable about loneliness, alienation and emotional traumas by first-time director Taiwanese Lee Kang-sheng, who frequently appears as an actor in the films of Tsai Ming-liang;
Unterwegs (
En Route), the debut film by German director Jan Kruger in which a manipulative, slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother, her daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray; and the Hubert Bals Fund-supported
Ljeto U Zlatnoj Dolnini (
Summer in the Golden Valley) by first-time director Srdjan Vulectic from Bosnia-Herzogovina, in which two young guys who dream of life elsewhere, hustle, hang out, get stoned and are soon caught up with a beautiful rich girl and a blackmail scam.
Following the IFFR Awards Ceremony, the City of Rotterdam awarded IFFR director
Simon Field the Wolfert van Borselen Medal as a token of appreciation for his hard work and passionate commitment to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The French Ministry of Culture and Communication also awarded Field with the grade of "Officier dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres" for his achievements in the artistic domain and for his contributions to propagation of French culture. The farewell ceremony for Field, who will leave the IFFR after this 33rd edition, concluded with a series of cinematographic homages by some of his favourite filmmakers like Kitano Takeshi (Japan), Jan Svankmajer (Czech Republic), Catherine Breillat (France), Patrick Keiller (UK), Abolfazl Jalili (Iran), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan), Kees Hin (The Netherlands) and Kawase Naomi (Japan).
# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 1/30/2004 02:51:00 PM
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