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Locarno Pro Industry Awards: ‘Dream of Another Summer,’ ‘Downriver, a Tiger,’ ‘Cannibals’ Triumph
Catalonia sweeps top prizes in First Look; Lukas Nathrath among A4D winners
Directed by Víctor Diago, “Downriver, a Tiger” wraps an unexpected but engaging love story between Júlia, a Barcelona-born photographer and Shubham, a hirsute young Indian from Goa, who she meets in Glasgow. “‘Downriver, a Tiger’ is a self-funded film, made with freedom and radicalness on the margins of the industry, built as a fable to talk about migration and its melancholy through the love story of two strangers,” said producer Montse Pujol Solá. Produced by Alessandro Amato and Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte, Italy)Jury statement: In “Ithaca,” “landscapes play a fundamental role in expressing the violent rupture that its young protagonist experiences – being kidnapped from its southern homeland and moved to a northern, mountainous, region.”
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