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Belgium’s 46th Film Fest Gent announces awards

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Last updated: 2019/10/23 at 1:14 PM
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Belgium’s 46th Film Fest Gent has announced its awards on Friday. Film Öndög by director Wang Quan’an was awarded with the Grand Prix for Best Film. Meanwhile, director Alejandro Landes’ mysterious thriller Monos, has scooped up the Georges Delerue Award for Best Music and Sound Design. Director Pietro Marcello also received a Special Jury Prize for Best Director for his film Martin Eden.

This year’s jury was led by Belgian director-screenwriter Joachim Lafosse, and was further supported by film critic Guy Lodge, sound designer Midge Costin, director Radu Jude, and producers Fiorella Moretti and Dora Bouchoucha Fourati. 

Öndög discusses the life cycle, working back from its end to its beginning. The jury said that “this prestigious and audacious piece, paints a picture of intimacy and affection, in which humans are often shrunk to dots on a large colourful canvas.”

“In this film, Inner-Mongolia takes the lead: from start to finish [director]Wang Quan’an zooms in and pans out on the wide, open landscape,” the jury added.

Monos focuses on eight teenagers receiving paramilitary training in an inhospitable Latin American mountain scape. The commandos are titled ‘monos’ after the legendary giant apes of South America, and are part of an unidentified organization. When the boys’ trainer leaves on a mission, they are left to their own devices. Their only task is to keep their two prize possessions safe: a cow with a mind of its own called Shakira and the American they have taken as a hostage. With their trainer gone, the boys quickly get wrapped up in a powerplay, each attempting to become the new alpha male.

The jury decided to give Marcello the Special Jury Prize for Best Director for Martin Eden, the book-to-film adaptation of the Jack London story of a rough-and-tumble sailor turned literary man in order to please the upper class woman he wishes to marry.

The festival also announced the short film winners. The jury, director Jayro Bustamante, songwriter Neil Young, and director Amira Daoudi, handed out the Award for Best Belgian Student Short to the film Hier. by Joy Maurits 

Hier. explores the open-mindedness of boys and girls whose worlds collide in the microcosm of a sports centre in Bazel where they go in search of connection.

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