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A Palme Winner Collects an Audience Vote, Too
· New York time
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner Fjord received the audience award at Jakarta World Cinema, where it also opened the festival. The event closed with Banjong Pisanthanakun's Thai horror film Inherit and awarded funding to three Indonesian short filmmakers for their debut features. Fjord's international distinction gives the audience prize a wider context: a film already recognized by a major festival jury also found support among viewers at another event. The Jakarta award was the festival's only feature prize. That distinction separates audience recognition from the earlier jury honor. The funding for first features represents a different kind of recognition. Rather than adding another honor to a completed film, it supports filmmakers as they move from shorts toward longer projects. The closing film, the audience prize and the debut funding each occupied a different place in a festival program. A Palme winner taking another trophy is good news for the film and a modest challenge for its shelf space. The three emerging filmmakers, meanwhile, received something less decorative and rather more useful for making a first feature: financing.
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