About Sara wins top prize
2006-07-03 11:31
Moscow - Swedish director Karim Othman's film About Sara won the top prize at Moscow's 28th international film festival on Sunday.
French director Bertrand Blier's film How Much Do You Love Me? starring Monica Bellucci and Gerard Depardieu, won best director while best actress went to Julie Walters in Driving Lessons by Britain's Jeremy Brock.
Jens Harzer won the festival's award for best actor for the film Running on Empty by German director Bulent Akinci.
Driving Lesson also won the festival's special prize.
Other films that competed for prizes included Relatives by Hungary's Istvan Szabo; Chilean Raoul Ruiz's Klimt, starring John Malkovich; and US director Robert Towne's Ask the Dust.
Alexei Muradov's The Worm was the only Russian entry, despite the increasingly fast growth of the country's film industry.
Polish movie director Andrzej Zulawski chaired the jury, which also included actress Julie Christie, known for, among other films, her role as Lara in the 1965 David Lean adaptation of Doctor Zhivago.
- AP