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‘The Landscape and the Fury,’ ‘Rising Up at Night,’ ‘My Memory Is Full of Ghosts’ Win Top Awards at Visions du Réel
'The Landscape and the Fury' by Switzerland’s Nicole Vogele took the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Competition at Visions du Réel.
The jury, composed of Italian journalist and former Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, producer Dora Bouchoucha and filmmaker Carmen Jaquier, said they were “impressed by the approach of a film which renders, little by little, the complexity of reality and allows the viewer to question their place in the world.” A Special Mention went to “My Memory Is Full of Ghosts” by Anas Zawahri, which follows the people of Homs in Syria haunted by the destruction of war and in search for normality, and “We Are Inside” by Farah Kassem, in which the filmmaker returns to live with her ageing father in Lebanon as the two find a common language in poetry. The top prize in the more experimental Burning Lights competition went to “A Fidai Film” by Kamal Aljafari, in which the filmmaker reveals photos and footage seized from the Palestine Research Center in Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 military intervention in Lebanon in a process he describes as “the camera of the dispossessed.”
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