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'Court' gets triple win at Buenos Aires film fest
'Court'
gets triple win at Buenos Aires film fest
Buenos Aires, April 27 Writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane’s courtroom
drama “Court†delivered a hat-trick at the 17th edition of the Buenos Aires
Independent Film Festival, winning the top prize in the international
competition, the Best Actor award for star Vivek Gomber, and the FIPRESCI
award.
The winners were announced during a press conference held by fest director
Marcelo Panozzo and the Bafici programming team of Leandro Listorti, Violeta
Bava, Javier Porta Fouz, Juan Manuel DomÃnguez and Fran Gayo, reports
hollywoodreporter.com.
“Courtâ€, which premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on
September 4 last year, has won more than 18 awards in all, including honours at
the Mumbai, Vienna, Antalya, and Singapore film festivals.
Apart from Vivek, “Courtâ€, which won the Best Feature Film award at the 62nd
National Film Awards, also stars Vira Sathidar, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep
Joshi, Usha Bane and Shirish Pawar.
The official closing of the 17th Buenos Aires Independent Film Fest took place
on April 24 at the Colon Theater, the city's opera house, followed by the
afternoon gala screening of Argentina’s first feature-length film “Amaliaâ€
(1914), which was earlier restored by the Buenos Aires Film Museum.