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‘Happy Holidays’ By Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti Takes Top Prize At Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki Film Festival ended today with a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The End.'
Awarding the prize, the jury, headed by Sara Driver, praised the film for “intricately weaving different narratives and perspectives that fully expose the complexity of national, gender and class dynamics that can divide societies and for seeing the future in the face of a young woman the Golden Alexander goes to Happy Holidays by Scandar Copti.” Reasoning: The television station of the Hellenic Parliament bestows the award “Human Values” to a film that explores with mastery, narrative conciseness and powerful interpretation the dilemma of a teenager talented tennis player called to cope with her personal trauma and break her deafening silence, in the shadow of the suicide committed by a female fellow athlete and the sending-off of their coach. A committee headed by Simos Papanas, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, and comprised by Antonis Sousamoglou and Miltos Logiadis grant a unique award, giving the opportunity to a young composer among the participants to record their next cinematic work with the TSSO.
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