‘The Last Days of the Hospital,’ ‘Fixing the War,’ ‘The Shadow of Yoluja’ Pick Up Top Industry Prizes at Visions du Réel
18.04.2024 - 00:07
/ variety.com
Lise Pedersen Two new cash prizes introduced this year in Swiss film festival Visions du Reel’s industry section, VdR-Industry, were among a flurry of awards handed out as the program wrapped in Nyon, Switzerland, on Wednesday. The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, created to promote the fund’s role in encouraging international co-production from the initial stages of a project, and which comes with a cash prize of €20,000 ($22,000), went to “The Last Days of the Hospital” by Mehran Tamadon (“My Worst Enemy,” “Bassidji”).
Set in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Paris, it tells the story of a group of patients invited to take over the wards as the health personnel gradually leave amid a crisis in the health sector. A visibly moved Tamadon picked up the award, thanking the entire VdR-Industry team for organizing “such amazing pitching sessions.” The Franco-Iranian director was thrilled with the prize which he told Variety was a great stepping stone as he seeks further funding from France’s CNC ahead of shooting, which is due to start after the summer.
The jury, composed of Eleni Chandrinou from Eurimages, Swiss director-producer Vadim Jendreyko and Susana Santos Rodrigues, co-director of the IndieLisboa International Film Festival, said: “The jury decided in favor of a project that is both challenging and urgent. The director is immersed and immerses us, the audience, in a world that is beyond our comfort zone.
An unconventional approach that questions our perception of people living in a mental health institution. In the harsh reality of the death of a public hospital, the film constructs a utopia where the patients become people.” The additional Special Eurimages Co-production Development Award, aimed
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