ROBERT GUEDIGUIAN’S "ARMENIA" WINS AWARD AT ROME’S FIRST FILM FESTIVAL

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 23 2006

Robert Guediguian’s "Armenia" has got an award at Rome’s First Film
Festival, reports AP.

Guediguian’s wife Ariane Ascaride of France won the best actress
award for playing Anna in "Armenia," a movie documenting a young
woman’s journey of self-discovery as she searches for her father in
her native country.

Playing the Victim," a Russian dark comedy that is a modern-day
adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet," won the best film award.

The movie, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, who is also an acclaimed
theater director, was judged the best of 16 candidates by the jury at
the Italian capital’s inaugural international festival, which began
on Oct. 13.

"Playing the Victim" won out over films including Davide Ferrario’s
"Primo Levi’s Journey," a reconstruction of the Jewish author’s
10-month journey home following his release from Auschwitz in 1945,
and "Nightmare Detective," a Japanese film by director Tsukamoto
Shinya about an investigation into two mysterious suicides.

The festival’s special jury prize was awarded to "This is England,"
Shane Meadows’ movie about a young boy who joins a gang of skinheads
led by a racist, convicted criminal.

Colangeli won the best actor award for his interpretation in Alessandro
Angelini’s "L’aria salata" of a convict seeking to rebuild his
relationship with his estranged son.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress