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| Best Film award winner Dans La Brume Photo: Fantasia Film Festival |
Daniel Roby's Dans La Brume, which opened this year's Fantasia film festival, has won its Best Film award, it was announced today. The Cheval Noir jury called it "a lean, terrifying portrait of an extinction-level event from the point of view of a family determined to survive." A special prize went to Dennison Ramalho's ghostly black comedy The Nightshifter.
Nosipho Dumisa won Best Director for Number 37, a gritty South African noir, while Isa Mazzei won Best Screenplay and the New Flesh award for Best Newcomer for Cam, the sinister story of a camgirl whose career is taken over by a doppelgänger. Joshua Burge was named Best Actor for Relaxer and Kim Da-mi Best Actress for The Witch Part 1: The Subversion. "Newcomer Kim Da-mi delivers an immaculate, layered performance, displaying intricacy and range in realms both physical and emotional. This portrayal marks the introduction of a kick-ass new heroine," said the jury of the latter.
Other winners included Jeon Go-Woon's Microhabitat, which was awarded the Lucida Award, and Hiroyasu Ishida's Penguin Highway, which received the Satoshi Kon award for Best Animated Feature. Best Canadian Feature went to Le Nid and the award for Best Short Film went to Aurore.
