COLOGNE, Germany -- Rithy Panh's "S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine," in which the survivors of Pol Pot's genocide confront their tormentors, has won this year's European Film Prize for best documentary, the European Film Academy (EFA) said Tuesday. The three-person jury made up of filmmakers Alfredo Knuchel (Switzerland), Ben Lewis (United Kingdom) and Michael Muschner (Germany) picked the critically acclaimed documentary over high-profile competition that included Byambasuren Davaacq and Luigi Falorni's "The Story of the Weeping Camel" and Lars von Triercq and Jorgen Leth's "The Five Obstructions". The EFA also said that Marco Bellocchio's "Good Morning, Night", a re-enactment of the kidnapping and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigade terrorists in 1978, is this year's winner of the Prix Fipresci, the European film critics' award. Fipresci president Michel Ciment said in a statement that by selecting Bellocchio's film, the critics group wanted "to single out not only a masterwork -- one of the best of its author -- but also (Bellocchio's) outstanding filmography, which goes back to 1965 and comprises more than 20 films." The awards will be presented Dec. 6 at an EFA ceremony in the Arenacq in Berlin.
- 11/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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