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‘Halima,’ ‘Tape,’ ‘The Last Journey’ Triumph at Haugesund Alongside Paola Cortellesi’s ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’: ‘It’s a Modern Masterpiece’
Upcoming projects ‘Halima’ and ‘Tape’ win at Norway’s Haugesund alongside ‘The Last Journey’ and ‘There’s Still Tomorrow.’
“Growing up Muslim and African in an often literally winter-white Finnish small town wasn’t easy – we stuck out like a pride of lions in a parking lot,” recalled Mohamud when talking to Variety. And just when you think you know, you slowly realize, with a tear in your eye and a smile, that you were wrong all the time,” said jurors Martin Mentzoni, Olav Andre Åserød Myklebust, Torunn Steensnæs, Lidia Fyllingsnes and Ingvild Konstanse Bentsen. Their Audentia Award colleagues – Iram Haq, Ståle Stein Berg and Benedicte Danielsen – agreed, calling Cortellesi’s drama a “modern masterpiece”: “We were captivated by the film’s extraordinary formal precision, cinematic playfulness and its unique ability to blend a classic melodrama with both serious themes and humor […] Little did we know that a clever revitalization of Italian neorealism was exactly what we needed today.”
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