Rotterdam. Awards (and other recent items).

Via Variety's Michael Jones, a list of winners from the International Film Festival Rotterdam, starting with the three VPRO Tiger Award winners:

Updated through 2/2.

• Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town.

• Liew Seng Tat's Flower in the Pocket.

• Omar Shargawi's Go With Peace Jamil.

Also:

• The Dioraphte Award for the best film supported by the Hubert Bals Fund goes to Sandra Kogut's Mutum.

• The FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize goes to Jose Luis Torres Leiva's The Sky, the Earth and the Rain.

• And the Association of Dutch film critics honor Alexei Balabanov's Cargo 200.

"It's a week into the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the one title that keeps popping out of the mouths of inebriated critics is The Sky, The Earth, and The Rain," writes R Emmet Sweeney at IFC News. "The Sky is the major discovery of the festival." Then come takes on Wonderful Town, Garin Nugroho's Teak Leaves at the Temples and Cargo 200.

Kees Geuze at Twitch on Paul Krik's Able Danger: "I went into the theater expecting a political pamphlet played by some left wing activists, but instead I saw a very well made film noir movie about a 9/11 conspiracy theory."

"Quiet, touching and poetic are not normally terms associated with vampire films, but there are no better words to describe Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson," writes Boyd van Hoeij at european-films.net.

Update, 2/2: "Able Danger the movie takes the real-life mystery of the intelligence operation and uses it as the basis for a spirited and blackly comic neo-noir set all over Manhattan and Brooklyn," writes Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay, who shoots a few emails back and forth with self-financed (and now, "broke") director Paul Krik.

Posted by dwhudson at February 1, 2008 2:27 PM