Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “Utama,” which won the grand jury prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance this year, took home top honors at the closing ceremony of the Transilvan…
Grisi’s feature debut tells the story of an elderly couple in the Bolivian highlands who refuse to relocate to the city despite the constant threat of drought. In a glowing review,as a “sublime, quietly elegiac” character study that “looks quite unlike anything else.”
The prize for best director went to Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson for “Beautiful Beings,” which the jury singled out for the “credible, original and brilliant universe” crafted by the Icelandic filmmaker, who won the same award at Transilvania in 2017 for “Heartstone.”as a “coming-of-age tale radiant with violence and tenderness” in her review after its premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section.
The top prize from the festival’s “What’s Up, Doc?” competition section went to “You Are Ceaușescu to Me,” Sebastian Mihăilescu’s experimental docufiction in which a group of young people gather to reenact scenes from the life of the former Romanian dictator.
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