True to the international scope of this year’s festival, the top award winners at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival represented films from around the world. This year’s Festival included 157 features and 88 short films from 47 countries. The world competition winners were chosen from 18 narrative and 16 documentary features from 25 countries.
The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature was given to My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits). Directed by David Volach (Israel), in this heartbreaking film, a respected rabbi in an ultra-Orthodox community--who is also a father and husband--is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family.
Best Documentary Feature was given to Taxi to the Darkside, directed by Alex Gibney (U.S.A.), the filmmaker behind Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. This documentary murder mystery examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers.
Best Screenplay and Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film went to Making Of (Akher film),directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco). Lofti Edbelli stars as Bahta, a 25-year-old breakdancer in Tunisia who, after the eruption in Iraq in 2003, falls in with a group of fundamentalists whose brainwashing is intended to make him a suicide bomber. In the
framing story, the actor playing Bahta doesn't know how the film will end, and he and the director have conflicts of their own.
On Saturday, Tribeca presented the Cadillace Award (chosen by the festival audience) to We Are Together (Thina Simunye), a documentary film from the U.K. directed by Paul Taylor and produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Liefer. The film tells the story of children in the South Africa Agape Orphanage, most of who have lost their loved ones to AIDS.
For a complete list of winners, go to www.tribecafilmfestival.org!
Long live indie film,
Michelle
The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature was given to My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits). Directed by David Volach (Israel), in this heartbreaking film, a respected rabbi in an ultra-Orthodox community--who is also a father and husband--is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family.
Best Documentary Feature was given to Taxi to the Darkside, directed by Alex Gibney (U.S.A.), the filmmaker behind Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. This documentary murder mystery examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers.
Best Screenplay and Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film went to Making Of (Akher film),directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco). Lofti Edbelli stars as Bahta, a 25-year-old breakdancer in Tunisia who, after the eruption in Iraq in 2003, falls in with a group of fundamentalists whose brainwashing is intended to make him a suicide bomber. In the
framing story, the actor playing Bahta doesn't know how the film will end, and he and the director have conflicts of their own.
On Saturday, Tribeca presented the Cadillace Award (chosen by the festival audience) to We Are Together (Thina Simunye), a documentary film from the U.K. directed by Paul Taylor and produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Liefer. The film tells the story of children in the South Africa Agape Orphanage, most of who have lost their loved ones to AIDS.
For a complete list of winners, go to www.tribecafilmfestival.org!
Long live indie film,
Michelle
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