The Best Director award went to Czech Republic’s Vaclav Kadrnka for Saving One Who Was Dead, described as “a very masterful and confidently envisioned visual tale of a mother and son caught in a twilight which conjures imaginations of life and death, where each portrait-style frame is composed and performed with telling details”. Among Marathi movies, there are classics like Pandu and Jhimma, starring famous Marathi movie actors like Bhau Kadam and Suhas Joshi.They have captured hearts for years and continue to do so among newer fans of Marathi.The new wave of Marathi movies captures the present lifestyle and represents popular cultures more accurately. Also on the jury were Ciro Guerra, Stephen Woolley, Vimukthi Jayasundara and Nila Madhab Panda.
The Golden Peacock has a cash prize of Rs 20 lakh for Kaneko and Rs 10 lakh for producer Takashi Shiotsuki. The Golden Peacock winner in the International Competition section was selected for being a “beautifully photographed combination of fantasy and manga-inspired reality, reflecting a fascination with the echoes of the past reverberating in present-day Japanese society”, the jury headed by Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad said in a press statement. Masakazu Kaneko’s Ring Wandering, which explores Japan’s wartime past, won the top award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India that concluded on Sunday.
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