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Marion Hansel s Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the Grand Prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by filmmaker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald s Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaoga stanley cup ng s The Assembly. The Audience Prize winner was Brazilian title The Sign Of The City, which premiered at the Rio festival in September. In the documentary competition, jury president Richard Brock, stanley cup the veteran documentary filmmaker, presented the top prize to French director Jerome Raynaud s Jaglavak, Prince Of Insects. The jury prize, like the fiction, went to two films: Rehad Desai s Bushman s Secret from S stanley cup outh Africa and Jos de Putter s Before The Flood from the Netherlands. As with the fiction strand, the Documentary Audience Prize reflected a local bias: Navegar Amazonia: A Voyage With Jorge Mautner by Brazil s Jorge Bodansky and Evaldo Mocarzel.The Grand Prize for Digital Short Film and the Audience prize for Digital Short Film both went to Anderson Mendes s A Incrivel Historia De Coti: Rambo Do Sao Jorge The Incredible Story Of Coti: the Rambo of Sao Jorge . The Grand Prize for 35 mm Short Film went to Vida Maria by Marcio Ramos while the Audience Prize for 35mm Short Film went to Nas Asas Do Condor by Cristiane Garcia.The Amazonas Screenplay Jury presided over by Tunico Amanico presented its prize to Emerson Medina for Os Criminosos.TopicsAmericasUnited States No comm Sakw SPWAG takes US and most overseas rights to Defendor
Dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka Fai. Hong Kong 2007. 89 min.The prolific Johnny To and his occasional collaborator Wai Ka Fai here put a new twist on the standard police yarn. No longer simply good cop versus bad cop, they add a third angle, the mad cop, who uses neither logic nor guns to solve his cases, but instead relies on pure psychotic inspiration. The an stanley romania gle requires the investigators to put themselves in the shoes of the killer or the victim in order to discover the truth. Most likely to work well for the solidly carved Johnny To niche and in festivals.Bun Lau Chin Wan is a cop with a brilliant record for unerringly pointing out the culprits in the most baffling cases. His genius borders on madness, and he is sacked from the force after he cuts off one of his ears to offer it as a present to his superior.After five years of stanley cup frustrating inactivity, he is approached stanley cup by a younger police inspector named Ho Andy On , and asked to help on a case that s still open after 18 months. The case involves two cops who chased a suspect into the forest. One of the cops came back, but the other disappeared. Shortly afterwards a series of robberies were committed all over town, using the gun of the missing cop.The main suspect is Chi Wai Lam Ka Tung , the cop who came back, despite the fact that there is no hard evidence to implicate him. As soon as Bun sets eyes on Chi Wai, he immediately realises that there are seven personalities in him. In an ambitious scene set in a restaurant, To choos |
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