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Visions du Réel Crowns ‘The Prince of Nanawa’ as Grand Prix Winner, ‘The Vanishing Point’ Claims Burning Lights Award
“The Prince of Nanawa” claimed Visions du Réel’s top prize, while “The Vanishing Point” took the top Burning Lights honor.
Clarisa Navas’ “The Prince of Nanawa” has taken home the Grand Prix at international Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel, while Bani Koshnoudi’s “The Vanishing Point” earned the top award in the Burning Lights section. Koshnoudi, an exiled filmmaker and visual artist whose work has been shown in exhibitions around the world, picked up the festival’s second most prestigious award for “The Vanishing Point,” which breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin executed during the 1988 purges in Iran. In their citation, the jury, made up of U.S. filmmaker Scott Cummings (“Realm of Satan,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”), French producer Thomas Hakim (“All We Imagine as Light”), and Georgian-Swiss director Elene Naveriani (“Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry”) called it “a bold and radical exploration of shared pain and collective resistance,” commending how the filmmaker “opens her family history to unlock a kaleidoscope of materials, both personal and political, past and present, that culminates in a manifesto of resistance against the regime.”
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