13-06-2023

FESTIVALS: Plan 75 Wins 2023 Philosophical Film Festival in Skopje

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    FESTIVALS: Plan 75 Wins 2023 Philosophical Film Festival in Skopje credit: Philosophical Film Festival

    SKOPJE: Director and co-writer Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature Plan 75, a coproduction between Japan, France and the Philippines, won the Golden Owl Award for Best Feature Film at the 13th Philosophical Film Festival, which took place in Skopje 2– 9 June 2022.

    Several awards were handed out in the Short Competition Programme, including Best Short Film for Graveyard of Horses by Xiaoxuan Jiang.

    The awards ceremony at the Cinematheque of North Macedonia was followed by a screening of the Polish/Israeli/Italian coproduction The Perfect Number / Liczba doskonała by Krzysztof Zanussi, produced by Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnychi Fabularnych, in coproduction with Telewizja Polska, Revolver & Nina Film and TransFax Film Productions.

    The Philosophical Film Festival is a film festival on the crossroads between philosophy and film, which tries to promote the idea of film as a medium that can provoke philosophical thought and illustrate philosophical ideas. The festival screened 40 films, held around 50 events, and had 24 participants at the Second International Conference Philosophy and Film.

    This year the festival organised by the Macedonian Philosophical Society was held under the motto "Everything is film, in the plural", inspired by Jean-Luc Godard for whom the festival prepared a special segment titled Focus Godard.

    FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

    Feature Film Competition:

    Best Feature Film:
    Plan 75 (Japan, France, Philippines)
    Directed by Chie Hayakawa

    Short Film Competition:

    Best Short Film:
    Graveyard of Horses (China)
    Directed by Xiaoxuan Jiang

    Special Mention:
    Please, Make It Work (Switzerland, Portugal)
    Directed by Daniel Soares

    Audience Award for Best Feature Film:
    Plan 75 (Japan, France, Philippines)
    Directed by Chie Hayakawa

    Audience Award for Best Short Film:
    The Blanket (Finland)
    Directed by Teppo Airaksinen