13-09-2012

Cinematik gave awards

    The main prize of the festival Meeting Point Europe Award for the best European film of the year goes to The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius. Story about a movie actor of the silent era already won numerous awards including five Oscars.

     

    Second competitive section Cinematik.doc is designed for Slovak feature-length documentary films released between September 2011 and September 2012. Film Europe Award goes to The Bells of Happiness (Zvonky šťastia) by Marek Šulík and Jana Bučka. It is a documentary with social undertone about two Roma cousins who admire Karel Gott and Dara Rolins so they decide to send them DVD with Roma remix of their hit-single Zvonky šťastia. Award of the Mayor of the Town of Piešťany goes to …I Don’t Think I Will Return (…Myslím, že sa nevrátim). The debut of Paula Sisková was shot during the pilgrimage to Spanish Santiago de Compostela. It records a one-thousand-kilometer journey of four women which is full of joy, sorrow and suffering. Audience Award goes to Roman Polanski’s Carnage. It is a drama about two couples whose kids fought on local playground and they try to solve the problem at the dinner.