Taiwanese film I Can’t Live Without You walked away with the Golden Peacock award for the best film at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which concluded at Dinananath Mangueshkar Kala Academy, at Campal today.
The film is directed by Leon Dai and produced by Chan Wan Qi. The Golden Peacock award carries a citation and an award of Rs 40 lakh, which is shared by the director and the producer.
South Korean Director Ounie Leconte bagged the Silver Peacock best director award for her French-South Korean film A Brand New Life. Leconte pursed a cheque of Rs 15 lakh and a citation.
Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili for his film The Other Bank bagged the Special Jury award of Rs 15 lakh.
Malayalam actor Mammootty was the chief guest for the award ceremony, which was also attended by Union Minister of State for Information and broadcasting S Jagatrakshan, Governor Dr Shivendra Singh Sidhu, Chief Minister Digamabar Kamat, Union Joint Secretary for I & B Mr Pyarelal and Goa Chief Secretary Sanjay Srivastava, DFF Director S M Khan, ESG CEO Manoj Srivastava and others
The above films were chosen by a five-member competition jury out of 15 entries in the Competition Section from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China/UK, Georgia/Kazakhstan, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, South Korea/France, Sri Lanka and Taiwan including two films from India.
The competition jury was headed by the noted Director from Brazil Joao Batista de Andrade. Other members of the jury were Kenichi Okubu (Japan), Jean-Michel Frodon (France), Ms Sarika (India) and Vic Sarin (Canada).
The Festival concluded today with the screening of the Spanish film The Broken Embraces, directed by Pedro Almodovar and a cultural programme.
The 11-day extravaganza, which began on November 23, with the screening of He Ping’s “Wheat” witnessed screening of 300 films from 47 countries, which was a real treat to watch. In the international section, a total of 145 films were shown in 18 categories.
These included 54 in Cinema of the World, 15 in the Competition, five in the Focus on Latin America. And 23 in the Country Focus. Films from Croatia, Estonia, Italy and Poland were screened under Country Focus section.
The films of Gurinder Chadha, Manoel de Oliviera and Nonjee Nimibutr were screened in Retrospectives Section. Four films were shown in Film India Worldwide.Besides there were special tributes to Joao Batista and Ronald Raber.
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