The
dystopian thriller
Possessor
, by
Brandon Cronenberg
, has won the award for
Best Film in the Official Fantàstic Section
of the 53rd
Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia
, in addition to also winning the award for
Best Direction
, has announced this Saturday at the wheel the director of the festival, Ángel Sala.
Cronenberg was already awarded a few years ago in Sitges for the
best novel director
for the film
Antiviral
, and in this film he proposes a story in which
an enigmatic company performs brain implants to occupy the bodies of other people to commit murders
and stars Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbot, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Sean Bean.
La Nuée, special jury prize
Another of the winners of the record was
La Nuée
,
Just Philippot's
feature film debut
, which has
won the Special Jury Prize
and
Best Female Performance
for
Suliane Brahim
, in a film in which a single mother is obsessed with the raising of edible grasshoppers.
The
Best Male Performance
has gone to
Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais
, from
Mandíbulas
;
the
Best Screenplay
in the Hungarian
Comrade Drakulich
;
the
Best Special Effects
in
Mosquito State
;
the
Best Cinematography
in
The Dark and The Wicked
, the
Best Music
on '
Baby
' by
Juamna Bajo Ulloa
, and the
Prix Public
for
La vampira of Barcelona
, of
Lluís Danish
.
The jury also awarded special mentions to the director of
Relic
,
Natalie Erika James
, and actress
Marin Ireland
, for his role in
The Dark and the Wicked
;
The
Best Short Film Award
in the official section went to
The Luggage
, by Tsai Yi-Fen.
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