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Vinderfilm 2009
Som afslutning på Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009 kåres årets publikumsvinder og vores uafhængige, professionelle jury kårer de bedste film inden for kategorierne dokumentar-, kort og spillefilm.
Alle vindere bliver belønnet med et værk Tom Kietz's. bedste spillefilm får desuden 1000 Euro, mens bedste dokumentar, bedste kortfilm og special mentioning modtager 500 Euro.
Prisoverrækkelsen fandt sted under det afsluttende gallaarrangement i Empire Bio lørdag den 24/10.
Årets publikumsvinder
Årets publikumsvinder er i år gået til hele to (!) danske film: Nobody Passes Perfectly og Goddag Mit Navn Er Lesbisk.
Et stort tillykke til Saskia Bisp, Minna Grooss og Iben Haarh Andersen - og mange tak til alle jer som har stemt.
Jurypriser
Juryen 2009 har bestået af Rosa Lux, Ditte Bjerg, Yun Suh (USA), Søren Bygbjerg og Nicholas Davies (CAN).
Alle film, der indgår i konkurrencen er udvalgt med omhu på grund af deres stærke historier, smukke æstietik eller fordi de bidrager med noget vigtigt fra en ny, skæv vinkel.
Bedste spillefilm: Lion's Den
Lion’s Den is a film with many obvious qualities. It tells an emotional, but unsentimental story of a woman’s personal growth behind bars in the maternity cell block of a prison in Buenos Aires.
It is directed with a great sense of authenticity by Pablo Trapero, who also has an eye for the poetic moments in the midst of all the misery. And it features an impressive performance by Martina Gusman in the leading role.
A film like Lion’s Den deserves an audience outside film festivals. But that is not the case here in Denmark, where the film distributers rarely take any chances. Therefore it is a special pleasure for the jury to present the award for Best Feature Film to Lion’s Den.
(Søren Bygbjerg)
Bedste dokumentar: Prodigal Sons
It is our great honor to celebrate a heartbreaking and haunting documentary that breaks new cinematic ground in the portrayal of the transgender experience and sibling rivalry.
“I feel like Marc would’ve given anything to be the man I have given anything not to be.”
This is one of the poignant insights by the story’s narrator who dares to dig deep to confront the difficult truths about one-self and sibling. Careful not to sentimentalize or sensationalize the surprising twists and turns of family dynamics, this documentary triumphs in what cinema does best, that is, to move the audience to care and struggle with someone, who would otherwise remain a stranger or stereotype in the world.
Doing double duty of directing a documentary from behind the camera as well as in front of the lens, the filmmaker humanizes a unique, multi-layered story that transcends the specifics of a family from Montana to reveal the universal need for belonging and acceptance.
The Jury of the 2009 Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival enthusiastically and unanimously present the Best Documentary Award to Kimberly Reed for Prodigal Sons.
(Yun Suh)
Bedste kortfilm: Heiko
Heiko is a pleasure for the eye as well as for the gay heart that doesn’t need to establish identity yet another time. The story arrives to the screen in the midst of a relationship with an elegant series of footage and a
strong grasp of composition, which immediately makes it stand out. It is not compromising itself by explaining background or fetish, but simply expecting the audience to tag along.
The story is about a very specific fetish and while it maneuvers very easily around the traps of patronizing either audience, characters or both, it is at the same time not afraid of the laughter that arrives when one recognizes a cliché.
This balance act seems to be done effortlessly and this is the main reason that we, The Jury of the 2009 Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, is proud to present the Best Short Movie Award to David Bonneville for Heiko.
(Rosa Lux)
Heiko was part of the short film programme Brief Encounters.
Special mentioning
It's always exciting when working with films to be presented with work that is both a pleasure to watch and a challenge to capture satisfyingly in conversation.
This is the case with Jan Krueger's Rueckenwind. This deceptively simple tale about the early months of love between two young men takes on an unsettling complexity through its use of gameplaying and its invocation of eerily familiar fables.
Its relaxed pace paradoxically brings about a feeling of anxiety as it allows for moments that are slight yet significant as they carry the story to its logical, yet somehow unexpected climax. All of this, along with its neat exploration of power, trust and jealousy, as well as its gorgeous celebration of the beauty and the dangers of nature, make it compelling viewing.
And so the jury of the 2009 Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival presents Rückenwind with the Jury's Special Mention prize.
(Nicolas Davies)
