PANAJI: Lithuanian drama movie ‘Poisonous’, written and directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė, gained the Golden Peacock on the fifty fifth Worldwide Movie Pageant of India in Goa on Thursday.
The movie was chosen by a jury led by famous Indian filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar from 15 movies from around the globe together with three Indian movies. The award carries a prize of ₹40 lakh.
The jury praised the movie for its deep sensitivity and empathy, with its coming-of-age narrative set in opposition to a stark bodily and social backdrop, mentioned an official assertion.
Poisonous emerged as the perfect movie, “for exploring adolescence and the cruel realities of rising up in an economically disadvantaged society, with a lot sensitivity and empathy and on the identical time making a coming-of-age narrative in opposition to a backdrop of the bodily and social panorama”, it mentioned.
The Greatest Actor (Feminine) award was collectively given to Vesta Matulytė and Ieva Rupeikaitė for his or her efficiency in the identical movie.
Bogdan Muresanu gained the Greatest Director Award at IFFI 2024 for ‘New 12 months That By no means Got here’ in regards to the revolution in 1989 in Romania.
As was beforehand introduced, famend Australian director Phillip Noyce was honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in cinema on the gala closing ceremony.
In his acceptance speech, the filmmaker acknowledged the immense affect of Indian cinema, noting that India is the world’s largest producer of function movies annually.
Reflecting on the way forward for cinema, Noyce shared his ideas on the evolving nature of filmmaking. “We should as soon as once more flip to Satyajit Ray’s cinematic philosophy: Much less is extra. As know-how evolves, so should we. Let motion pictures turn into smaller and Concepts get larger. That, I imagine, is the way forward for cinema”, he mentioned.
Swedish filmmaker Levan Akin’s CROSSING gained the celebrated ICFT – UNESCO Gandhi Medal, which was described by the jury as “a surprising piece of cinema about love and understanding”.
Bandiwadekar gained the Greatest Debut Director of an Indian Characteristic Movie Award for his Marathi movie ‘Gharat Ganpati’.
The eight-day pageant got here to an in depth in Goa on Thursday. IFFI 2024 introduced over 180+ worldwide movies from 81 international locations, together with 15 world premieres, 3 worldwide premieres, 40 Asian premieres and 106 Indian premiers.
