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Knack awards Van Groeningen; Israel wins big award at Ghent fest

Felix van Groeningen, the director of the new film De helaasheid der dingen (The Misfortunates), which is playing now across Flanders, won the Jo Röpcke Film Award from Knack, the magazine announced last week during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent. The award is given annually to a filmmaker who has significantly and creatively contributed to Flemish film during the last year. De helaasheid also won big at The Hamptons International Film Festival in New York earlier this month, earning the festival’s three top prizes.

Meanwhile, Israel was the big winner at the film festival, which came to a close on 17 October. The award for Best Film went to Eyes Wide Open, a drama about two Jewish men who fall in love in Jerusalem by filmmaker Haim Tabakman.

The prize for Best Film by the youth jury went to Ajami, an inventive non-linear story about revenge violence in Jaffa, by first-time directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. French composer Alexandre Desplat, meanwhile, won both Film Composer of the Year and Best Film Score of the Year (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) at the festival’s World Soundtrack .

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(October 21, 2024)