The movie "Royal Affair»By Nikolaj Arcel, the film that represents Denmark this year in the category of best foreign language film at the Academy Awards, has won the award given by the audience at the AFI Festival.
Arcel's film is one of the favorites to win the statuette of Best Foreign Language Film this year at the Oscars, his great rivals for this award are the Austrian "Amour" by Michael Haneke and the French "Untouchable" by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.
The public attending the AFI Festival He has also awarded other films. In the New Auteurs section, the audience's award-winning film was also a Danish film, “A Hijacking” by Tobias Lindholm. The Audience Award for the Youg Americans section went to "Only the Young" by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims. And in the Breakthrough section the award went to the verification between Germany and Kenya "Nairobi Half Life".
Furthermore, the Grand Jury Prize It has been for the Swedish film by Gabriela Pichler "Eat Sleep Die", receiving special mentions Mati Diop for his role in the film by Antonio Campos "Simon Killer" and to the film "Here and There" by Antonio Mendez Esparza.
More information - The AFI-fest will screen a large part of the films that will be in the next Oscars
Source - afi.com
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