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Park City (AP) - The film drama "Coda" has won the main prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to the Grand Jury Prize, the film by US director Sian Heder also won the Audience Award, as well as the awards for directing and the cast.
The British Emilia Jones (18) plays a girl who grows up as a child of deaf parents.
The winners were announced in a virtual event on Tuesday evening.
The award of the jury and the audience for the best documentary went to the music festival film “Summer Of Soul”.
In the “World Cinema” category, director Blerta Basholli won three prizes for “Hive” (jury, audience and director).
Your film portrays the difficult fate of a single woman after her husband disappeared in the war in Kosovo.
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Numerous Hollywood stars presented their projects.
"House of Cards" star Robin Wright made her directorial debut "Land".
The program also featured the drama “Passing”, which actress Rebecca Hall directed for the first time.
The German-Italian-Danish coproduction “The Human Factor” had its world premiere in the international competition program.
For many smaller films, the Sundance Festival is a stepping stone to find distributors and a wider audience.
Films like “Blair Witch Project”, “Boyhood” and “Get Out” were among the greatest successes of the last decades at the largest indie film festival in the USA.
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Sundance Film Festival winners