The 2022 Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam (IFFR) has handed out its competitors awards, with Paz Encina taking residence the highest prize. A press launch has introduced Encina’s “EAMI” was offered with the Tiger Award and €40,000 (about $45,000 USD).
A magical-realist story, “EAMI’s” title comes from a phrase meaning each “forest” and “world.” The pic, knowledgeable by Ayoreo-Totobiegosode mythology, sees younger protagonist Eami wandering the Paraguayan rainforest as her group is being pressured out resulting from deforestation.
Encina wrote and directed the movie.
“We had been unanimously affected by the highly effective movie created by the director and the staff that succeeds in constructing a powerful narrative that not solely sustains itself visually, politically, and likewise poetically, placing the lights on the worldwide massacres of indigenous tribes, by the cry of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode,” the jury members stated of their assertion. “This movie gave us the chance to dream and on the similar time the prospect to get up.”
The documentary “Reminiscence Workouts” and have “Paraguayan Hammock” are amongst Encina’s previous credit.
IFFR 2022’s different honorees embrace Morgane Dziurla-Petit, who obtained a Particular Jury Award for “Extra Will Save Us,” her function directorial debut. The hybrid venture follows a filmmaker who returns to her hometown to look right into a story a few terrorist menace — an investigation that leads her to her family. “Extra Will Save Us” is an growth of Dziurla-Petit’s 2019 in need of the identical title.
“This can be a actual debut movie, distinctive in each attainable means, filled with concepts and loopy storytelling, proving that hybrid filmmaking will be hilarious and likewise attain audiences. It’s a very beneficiant movie, bridging the hole between a number of worlds,” the jury described. “The sweetness lies within the complexity of each character, their hopes and goals, the state of affairs of small people coping with exterior issues that appear too large for them to know, after which their fantasy steps in. It’s also the form of movie the place the filmmaker and the making of the movie performs an enormous position and is intertwined with a scripted plot. The movie is humorous, extraordinarily shifting, and all the time unique.”
IFFR will run by February 6.
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