San Sebastian. Awards.

Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly has won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Goran Paskaljevic's Sam Zimske Noci came in close, receiving the Special Jury Prize. And Chinese director Xu Jinglei scored, rather unfairly, the Silver Shell for Best Director. Here's the full list of awards.

Thankfully, Adolfo Aristarain's Roma didn't win a thing, but sadly, the more adventurous selections in the official section have gone out either empty-handed, as in the case of Spider Forest, or with rather anecdotical awards - look at the Jury Award for Best Photography for Nine Songs, for example. The best news is that the Mercedes-Benz Youth Award has gone to Brad McGann's In My Father's Den, possibly the best film I saw at this festival. Now that's good taste, my young viewers!

Posted by dwhudson at September 25, 2004 9:04 AM