This yr, the Grand Prize of the Metropolis of Oberhausen within the Worldwide Brief Movie Competition competitors went to the Croatian manufacturing “Opera”. The film by Igor Zelić, an experimental research of sunshine, house and notion, was an “ode to cinema and the drama of life,” mentioned the jury.
“Opera” was the large winner of the pageant and likewise obtained the primary prize from the Ministry of Tradition and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Fipresci Prize from worldwide movie critics.
The principle prize, price 8,000 euros, was introduced on Sunday night on the Lichtburg Filmpalast in Oberhausen. This marked the tip of this yr’s Brief Movie Competition from April twenty eighth to Might third – the second beneath the route of Madeleine Bernstorff and Susannah Pollheim.
A complete of just about 45,000 euros in prize cash had been awarded in 5 competitions on the famend worldwide pageant. Nearly 500 brief movie productions from 59 nations had been on this system. A spotlight of the 72nd pageant was the connection between actuality and fiction in movie, given the rise in AI-generated pictures. “Based mostly on true occasions” was the title of this system.
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