Beverly Hills Film Festival Awards Golden Palm to “Assyriska”

Indiewire.com
April 12, 2006

The sixth annual Beverly Hills International Film Festival awarded its
Golden Palm Award to “Assyriska: A National Team Without a Nation” by
Nuri Kino and Erik Sandberg over the weekend. The award was voted on by
BHFF’s jury and festival attendees. The third episode in a five-part
documentary chronicles an Assyrian soccer team from a small Swedish town
as it achieves international stardom while also pushing Swedish and
Turkish governments to recognize the “forgotten” Assyrian genocide of
WWI. Best foreign film went to “Verso La Luna Con Fellini” (Towards the
Moon with Fellini), directed by Eugenio Cappuccio. The comical
documentary features the late Italian director Federico Fellini shooting
his last film, “La Voce della Luna.” Harold Cronk took the prize for
best director for his work in “War Prayer,” an atmospheric short film
inspired by a Mark Twain story. For more information and a full list of
prize winners, visit BHFF’s website.
[Brian Brooks]