‘BORDER’, UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA AWARD TO THE BEST FEATURE FILM FROM FANCINE 2018

‘Belle á Croquer’ wins the contest of short films in real image and ‘Bacchus’ rises with the highest award in the category of animation

The Swedish film ‘Border’, of the director of Iranian origin Ali Abassi, he has won the University of Malaga Award for the best feature film in the 28th edition of Fancine, in the opinion of the official jury of the contest. The film, a romantic story where a custom agent who detects only with her nose those guilty of contraband feels strangely attracted by an enigmatic suspect, has achieved the highest distinction of the list of winners, endowed with 9,000 euros of prize. The committee, an honor quintet formed by the sound mixer Marc Orts, the deputy director of the Sitges Foundation, Mónica García; the scriptwriter Borja Crespo and the producers Teresa Leal and Marina Ortiz, has decided to give the award to this film “for the use of the prism of fantasy for the exhibition and analysis of social issues from an intimate dimension”. Abassi inspired by a story by the author of horror novels John Ajvide Lindqvist to create a disturbing but powerful visual plot in which the limits between reality and fantasy are blurred, in the unique environment of the magical Nordic forests.

The decision of the Official Jury also includes seven other awards that have an honorary character. The distinction to the best director has fallen to Peter Strickland, for the surprising and colorful proposal of ‘In Fabric’, that also takes the prize for the best photography for the work of Ari Wegner in this field and the award for the best soundtrack. The prize for the best actress has been for Eva Melander for her performance in the winner ‘Border’, where the main weight of the plot falls on his character, like Matt Dillon has received the award for best actor for his work in ‘The House that Jack Built’, the latest project by the controversial Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier. By last, the best script has been given to ‘Piercing’, the film written and directed by Nicolas Pesce and based in Ryû Murakami’s novel, while the award to the best especial effects has also been given to ‘Border’, although the committee has granted special mention to ‘Inuyashiki’.

The prizes to the best short films in each modality complete the official list of awards. The Young Jury of Fancine 2018, composed of six students from different Andalusian public universities, has decided to award the highest award in the category of Real Image, endowed with 3,000 euros, to the French work ‘Belle á Croquer’, of the director Axel Courtière. In animation, the winning piece was ‘Bacchus’, a Danish production directed by Rikke A. K. Planet, which is rewarded with the same economic amount. Also, this university committee has awarded the RC Service award for the best photography, with a credit of 1,500 euros to invest in digital cinema camera rental, to the title ‘All these Creatures’, by Charles Williams. The jury’s decision has also included the Silver Méliès award for the Spanish production ‘The Hermit’ by Raúl Díez and the nomination on behalf of Fancine to the same work for the Golden Méliès award for the best European fantastic short film.

Audience Award and other prices

But Fancine’s list of winning titles does not end with official awards. Likewise, the list of winners includes the distinctions that the spectators attending the passes of the films in contest of the contest grant with their votes. In this way, ‘The House that Jack Built’ stands with the 1,000 euros of the Audience Award for the best feature film of the official section, a film that has managed to fill room 1 on the two occasions that has been projected during the festival. The recent proposal of the famous and controversial Danish director also takes the Rabid Cat Award, an honorary award granted by the press accredited in each edition.

The decision of the public has finally awarded two short films to contest. On one hand, the piece of Russian animation ‘Tweet-Tweet’, by the director Zhanna Bekmambetova, has been awarded with 500 euros of the public award in this modality, while in the category of Real Image the winning work with the same prize that has the highest number of votes accumulated has been the Korean production ‘Nose, Nose, Nose, EYES!’ by the director Jiwon Moon.

The reading of this decision, with the full list of winners, has been made public at the closing gala that has been held since 20:30 hours on Thursday, November 22 in Room 1 of the Albéniz Cinema. A fun performance on the stage with gore details has preceded the closing screening of the contest: ‘Memories of a murderer’ which is the film in charge of closing the 28th edition of Fancine, which concludes on Thursday nine days of fantastic cinema with almost a hundred of projections in its calendar of events and projections.

‘Belle á Croquer’ wins the contest of short films in real image and ‘Bacchus’ rises with the highest award in the category of animation

The Swedish film ‘Border’, of the director of Iranian origin Ali Abassi, he has won the University of Malaga Award for the best feature film in the 28th edition of Fancine, in the opinion of the official jury of the contest. The film, a romantic story where a custom agent who detects only with her nose those guilty of contraband feels strangely attracted by an enigmatic suspect, has achieved the highest distinction of the list of winners, endowed with 9,000 euros of prize. The committee, an honor quintet formed by the sound mixer Marc Orts, the deputy director of the Sitges Foundation, Mónica García; the scriptwriter Borja Crespo and the producers Teresa Leal and Marina Ortiz, has decided to give the award to this film “for the use of the prism of fantasy for the exhibition and analysis of social issues from an intimate dimension”. Abassi inspired by a story by the author of horror novels John Ajvide Lindqvist to create a disturbing but powerful visual plot in which the limits between reality and fantasy are blurred, in the unique environment of the magical Nordic forests.

The decision of the Official Jury also includes seven other awards that have an honorary character. The distinction to the best director has fallen to Peter Strickland, for the surprising and colorful proposal of ‘In Fabric’, that also takes the prize for the best photography for the work of Ari Wegner in this field and the award for the best soundtrack. The prize for the best actress has been for Eva Melander for her performance in the winner ‘Border’, where the main weight of the plot falls on his character, like Matt Dillon has received the award for best actor for his work in ‘The House that Jack Built’, the latest project by the controversial Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier. By last, the best script has been given to ‘Piercing’, the film written and directed by Nicolas Pesce and based in Ryû Murakami’s novel, while the award to the best especial effects has also been given to ‘Border’, although the committee has granted special mention to ‘Inuyashiki’.

The prizes to the best short films in each modality complete the official list of awards. The Young Jury of Fancine 2018, composed of six students from different Andalusian public universities, has decided to award the highest award in the category of Real Image, endowed with 3,000 euros, to the French work ‘Belle á Croquer’, of the director Axel Courtière. In animation, the winning piece was ‘Bacchus’, a Danish production directed by Rikke A. K. Planet, which is rewarded with the same economic amount. Also, this university committee has awarded the RC Service award for the best photography, with a credit of 1,500 euros to invest in digital cinema camera rental, to the title ‘All these Creatures’, by Charles Williams. The jury’s decision has also included the Silver Méliès award for the Spanish production ‘The Hermit’ by Raúl Díez and the nomination on behalf of Fancine to the same work for the Golden Méliès award for the best European fantastic short film.

Audience Award and other prices

But Fancine’s list of winning titles does not end with official awards. Likewise, the list of winners includes the distinctions that the spectators attending the passes of the films in contest of the contest grant with their votes. In this way, ‘The House that Jack Built’ stands with the 1,000 euros of the Audience Award for the best feature film of the official section, a film that has managed to fill room 1 on the two occasions that has been projected during the festival. The recent proposal of the famous and controversial Danish director also takes the Rabid Cat Award, an honorary award granted by the press accredited in each edition.

The decision of the public has finally awarded two short films to contest. On one hand, the piece of Russian animation ‘Tweet-Tweet’, by the director Zhanna Bekmambetova, has been awarded with 500 euros of the public award in this modality, while in the category of Real Image the winning work with the same prize that has the highest number of votes accumulated has been the Korean production ‘Nose, Nose, Nose, EYES!’ by the director Jiwon Moon.

The reading of this decision, with the full list of winners, has been made public at the closing gala that has been held since 20:30 hours on Thursday, November 22 in Room 1 of the Albéniz Cinema. A fun performance on the stage with gore details has preceded the closing screening of the contest: ‘Memories of a murderer’ which is the film in charge of closing the 28th edition of Fancine, which concludes on Thursday nine days of fantastic cinema with almost a hundred of projections in its calendar of events and projections.