‘Three Kilometers to the End of the World’ Wins Sarajevo Film Festival
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu’s “Three Kilometers to the End of the World,” a Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, took home the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival Friday night.
The third feature from the actor-turned-director was awarded by the jury headed by U.S. writer-director Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”) that included Swedish actor and producer Noomi Rapace (“Lamb”), Finnish director-writer Juho Kuosmanen (“Compartment No.
6”), Sarajevo-born, Paris-based director, writer and editor Una Gunjak (“Excursion”) and Slovenian actor Sebastian Cavazza (“Men Don’t Cry”). “Three Kilometers,” which follows a 17-year-old who’s the victim of a homophobic attack in a small town in Romania’s Danube Delta, examines the assault’s fallout on his rural community from multiple perspectives.
Variety’s Guy Lodge described it as a “claustrophobic study of personal and institutional prejudice closing in on a community misfit,” praising the “cinematic heritage” of its formal accomplishments but adding that “there’s little about the film that feels idiosyncratic, either stylistically or in its surface-level human portraiture.” The award for best director went to Yorgos Zois for his fantasy-drama “Arcadia,” which had its world premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival.
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