16 November 2012

And the winners of the Canberra International Film Festival are...

16 November 2012 | johnboy

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CIFF has announced their people’s choice winners from this year’s festival:

Best Feature

The Hunt, a Danish film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring

Mads Mikkelsen: a spine-chilling drama about an innocent man whose
life is threatened by a child’s lie.

Best Documentary

Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul: A Swedish/UK

film – presented as a mystery – following two music lovers who set out
to find their long lost rock hero, Sixto Rodriguez.

Best Retrospective

The Shining, the UK/USA horror classic directed by Stanley Kubrick and

starring Jack Nicholson.

For those interested here are the trailers of the winners:

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smcphill3:20 pm 16 Nov 12

slight typo ed: can’t see what won “Best Documentary”, and “Best Retrospective” isn’t a heading.

(I’m hoping ‘Room 237’ took the former)

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