The Friborg International Film Festival announced its 2020 prize list on Sunday, despite a canceled 34th edition: it was the Sudanese feature film “You Will Die at 20” which received the Grand Prize. The juries watched the films and deliberated by videoconference.
The Special Jury Prize goes to “Los Lobos” (Mexico) by Samuel Kishi Leopo and the Best Short Film Prize to “Ashode” (Iran) from Jafar Najafi, the organizers announced on Sunday. These three films won the main prizes. All tell of a youth carrying hope and change.
Confined to the four corners of the world and brought together by social networks, the jury crowned the film “You Will Die at 20” by the Sudanese filmmaker, “a moving work of remarkable pictorial quality,” he notes. The Sudanese director won the Lion of the future at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. The Grand Prize is endowed with 30,000 francs (State and City of Friborg).
The “34 and a half” edition continues at home, several titles from the selection – including some of the award-winning films – are available for streaming now. Then, as soon as the situation allows, the FIFF will return to the cinema with ad hoc special sessions and at other festivals. (ats / nxp)
Created: 03/29/2010, 6:42 p.m.
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